What are the responsibilities and job description for the API Platform Architect (Kong Gateway & Konnect) || Onsite- Atlanta, GA (Relocation; OK) position at DMS Vision Inc.?
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Position: API Platform Architect (Kong Gateway & Konnect)
Location: Onsite- Atlanta, GA (Relocation; OK)
Duration: 6 Months
Job Description
We are seeking a senior API Platform Architect with deep expertise in Kong Konnect, Kong Gateway, and enterprise API governance to own end-to-end architecture across on-prem and Google Cloud Platform environments. The ideal candidate leads ARB reviews, defines API governance standards, and drives security, observability, and scalability design.
Must-Have Skills (Required)
- 10 years in integration/API architecture — minimum 2 enterprise API gateway programs
- Kong Konnect / Kong Gateway — Control Plane, Data Plane architecture — on-prem and Google Cloud Platform
- decK, declarative config, workspaces, and RBAC — Kong configuration management
- Security patterns — mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, API keys, rate limiting, WAF, secrets/cert management
- Cloud & on-prem — Google Cloud Platform (VPC, load balancing), Linux, networking fundamentals
- Observability integration — Dynatrace, logging, audit and compliance controls
- CI/CD and IaC principles — Git, Git branching strategies, Terraform pipelines
- Experience leading ARB (Architecture Review Board) reviews
- Ability to define API governance standards — design-first approach and lifecycle management
- Proven experience with target architecture, HADR, and performance/scalability design
- Strong collaboration with Security, Network, Infra, and Product teams
Good to Have (Preferred)
- Experience with Apigee/Kong migration programs — multi-org and multi-region topologies
- SRE, Chaos engineering, and resiliency patterns
- Service mesh — Istio, Linkerd
- Cost/performance optimization and capacity sizing for high-TPS gateways
- Background in multi-cloud API gateway architectures
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