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UNIX MIDDLEWARE ENGINEER

Manhattan, NY · On-site

... Middleware Engineer, who will: - Oversee complex infrastructure automation, cloud migration, and ... Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of high-availability containerized environments ...

City of New York

UNIX MIDDLEWARE ENGINEER

Manhattan, NY · On-site

... Middleware Engineer, who will: - Oversee complex infrastructure automation, cloud migration, and ... Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of high-availability containerized environments ...

City of New York

UNIX MIDDLEWARE ENGINEER

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$125K - $150K/yr

... Middleware Engineer, who will: - Oversee complex infrastructure automation, cloud migration, and ... Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of high-availability containerized environments ...

StradIT

WI · On-site

$150 - $200/hr

Support production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and lead Major Incident Management (MIM ... Support middleware workloads hosted in AWS cloud environments, including deployment automation ...

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Sr. Kong Middleware Engineer or Kong Lead

Fort Mill, SC • On-site

WorkNovas LLC
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Job Title: Sr. Kong Middleware Engineer or Kong Lead
Location: Fort Mill, SC (Onsite)
 
Role Summary
We are looking for a Sr. Kong Middleware Engineer or Kong Lead with strong hands-on experience around API Services implementation and providing Best Practices solutions in Kong platform.
 
Key Responsibilities
· Design and implement APIs using Kong Gateway (services, routes, upstreams, plugins).
· Provide best design patterns, security patterns and testing patterns in Kong platform.
· Implement API security patterns including OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, and traffic controls.
· Deploy and operate Kong and APIs on AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2, ALB/NLB, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch).
· Implement CI/CD pipelines for Kong configurations services.
· Put guardrails around API deployment to higher environment using best practices in Kong.
· Recommend Kong plugins
· Enable monitoring, logging, and operational support for APIs and gateway components.
· Collaborate with architects, SRE/operations, and security teams in an onsite delivery model.
 
Required Qualifications
· 8+ years of software development experience with strong API/backend focus.
· 2+ years of Kong API Gateway experience in leading the implementation.
· Native Kong plugin development experience using Lua/OpenResty is a plus.
· Experience integrating with .NET / C# applications with Kong platform.
· Solid understanding of API security, governance, and performance best practices.
· Experience deploying Kong containers and nodes on AWS cloud.
· Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred), Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
· Strong communication and collaboration skills.
 
Core Skills
Kong Gateway | Lua/OpenResty | AWS | API Security | CI/CD | API Design Patterns