Senior API Platform Engineer (Kong) - Cloud DevSecOps

Emirates; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Emirates in Dubai seeks a Senior Technical Software Engineer - API Platform (Kong) to design, implement, and operate enterprise API gateway capabilities and infrastructure.

You will drive architectural decisions, DevSecOps practices, and mentor engineers within an agile team, delivering scalable, secure APIs (REST/GraphQL) and CI/CD pipelines using GitLab. The role requires modern engineering methods (DDD, TDD), IaC with Terraform/Ansible, Kubernetes, and strong Linux networking skills.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or Software Engineering.
• Minimum of 5+ years IT experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to deliver design, development and deployment of API platform solutions using Kong.
• Drive engineering practices, automation, lean development, and blameless incident post-mortems.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to validate ideas with prototypes.
• Investigate issues, propose improvements, and support architectural reviews.
• Mentor Software Engineers and ensure coding standards.
• Ensure optimal use of enterprise platforms and infrastructure.

Skills

Kong API Gateway

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Asynchronous APIs

IaC (Terraform, Ansible)

GitLab CI/CD

DDD & TDD

Java

Python

Kubernetes

Linux & networking

Observability with Dynatrace

DevSecOps

System design

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Software Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

Dynatrace

TIBCO BusinessWorks

SnapLogic

Solace

Kubernetes

Job description

Emirates in Dubai seeks a Senior Technical Software Engineer - API Platform (Kong) to design, implement, and operate enterprise API gateway capabilities and infrastructure.

You will drive architectural decisions, DevSecOps practices, and mentor engineers within an agile team, delivering scalable, secure APIs (REST/GraphQL) and CI/CD pipelines using GitLab. The role requires modern engineering methods (DDD, TDD), IaC with Terraform/Ansible, Kubernetes, and strong Linux networking skills.