Kong Developer - Sydney

Ayan Infotech Pty; Sydney; On-site; AUD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

AYAN InfoTech in Sydney seeks an experienced Kong Developer to design, implement, and operate secure API gateway solutions. The role focuses on Kong Enterprise, API security, authentication, and automation across cloud-native environments.

You will work on custom plugins, mTLS termination, and policy-based access controls, ensuring high availability and observability in hybrid deployments with AWS EKS/Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as Kong Developer / API Gateway engineer.
• Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable API gateway solutions.
• Hands-on with Kong Enterprise in cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Kong Enterprise API Gateway solutions in cloud-native setups.
• Engineer Kong API Gateway in hybrid deployments including AWS EKS/Kubernetes.
• Implement secure authentication/authorization for enterprise APIs.

Skills

Kong API Gateway

Cloud-native

Security

Tools

Kong Enterprise

Terraform

Lua

Python

Bash

Java

JavaScript

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

mTLS

AWS

Kubernetes

OPA/OPAL

Job description

AYAN InfoTech is looking for Kong Developer to join an exciting project based in Sydney. The role offers you the opportunity to contribute towards an extremely well structured and mature environment, working on sophisticated enhancement projects.

Role

Kong Developer

Location

Sydney

Contract Duration

6 Months with high possible extensions

Experience

7+ Years

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Kong Developer / API Gateway Engineer to design, develop and implement secure, scalable and highly available API Gateway solutions. The role will focus on Kong Enterprise engineering, API security, authentication and authorization, custom plugin development, cloud-native deployment and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, configure and maintain Kong Enterprise API Gateway solutions within cloud-native environments.
• Engineer and support Kong API Gateway in hybrid deployment models, including deployments on AWS EKS/Kubernetes.
• Design and implement secure authentication and authorization patterns for enterprise APIs.
• Integrate Kong with identity and security technologies including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, mTLS, Microsoft Entra ID and Ping Identity.
• Develop and deploy custom Kong plugins, including functionality supporting mTLS termination, API security and Layer 7 observability.
• Implement API traffic management capabilities including rate limiting, scalability and resilient gateway configurations.
• Develop infrastructure automation and Kong platform configurations using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Develop supporting automation and integration components using Lua, Python, Bash, Java and JavaScript.
• Integrate API Gateway capabilities with cloud and container platforms including AWS, EKS and Kubernetes.
• Implement secure service-to-service communication and certificate-based authentication.
• Support fine-grafined authorization and policy-based access controls, including technologies such as OPA/OPAL.
• Build and maintain reliable, production-grade gateway solutions with a strong focus on availability, scalability, security and observability.
• Troubleshoot Kong/API Gateway issues across development, testing and production environments.
• Participate in incident investigation, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement of API platform reliability.
• Work closely with application, cloud, security, IAM and DevOps teams to integrate APIs securely across enterprise platforms.

Contact: 61-[phone] for more details.

Please note we will be able to contact only shortlisted candidates for this role. We thank you in advance for your interest.