Senior Kong API Gateway Engineer — 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 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.