API Platform Engineer, Kong API & AI Gateway

BME | Bolsas y Mercados Españoles; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

BME | Bolsas y Mercados Españoles in Madrid is seeking an experienced platform engineer to operate Kong in production, reduce toil through automation and build self-service paths for API onboarding and policy delivery.

You will join an international platform team and broaden technical ownership with production topics, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and Azure. Direct Kong experience is welcome, as is expertise with other API gateways.

Formación

• Hands-on experience operating an API gateway in production.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and Azure.
• Automation skills using GitOps, CI/CD and IaC.
• Software engineering or scripting experience; Go/Java/Spring Boot advantageous.
• Knowledge of TLS, certificates, secrets and identity standards.
• Observability, incident response and root-cause analysis in regulated environments.

Responsabilidades

• Operate and improve Kong API Gateway in production across Azure and on-prem.
• Design automation and self-service onboarding for API policy delivery.
• Develop platform services using APIs, GitOps, CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Establish observability with metrics, logs and traces and strengthen security.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive durable platform improvements.
• Share on-call responsibility for the platform.

Conocimientos

Production experience

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Microsoft Azure

API gateway experience

GitOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Terraform

Helm

Argo CD

GitLab CI

Go/Java/Spring Boot

TLS/certificates/secrets

OAuth/OIDC

OpenTelemetry

Observability

Incident response

Root-cause analysis

Herramientas

Terraform

Helm

Argo CD

GitLab CI

Descripción del empleo

Join our international platform team in Madrid and help application teams expose APIs and connect to AI services securely through a critical shared Kong platform.

This is a hands-on engineering role, not a pure administration position. You will operate Kong in production, reduce toil through automation and build self-service paths for API onboarding and policy delivery.

The role suits an experienced engineer who already handles production topics independently and wants to broaden technical ownership. Direct Kong experience is welcome. Experience with another API gateway is equally relevant. What You’ll Build First: Turn Kong AI Gateway into a production-ready service that gives application teams a secure, observable and self-service path to LLM and MCP connectivity. Build the guardrails for policy enforcement, traffic routing, rate limiting, auditability and reliable operations.

Join our international platform team in Madrid and help application teams expose APIs and connect to AI services securely through a critical shared Kong platform.

This is a hands-on engineering role, not a pure administration position. You will operate Kong in production, reduce toil through automation and build self-service paths for API onboarding and policy delivery.

The role suits an experienced engineer who already handles production topics independently and wants to broaden technical ownership. Direct Kong experience is welcome. Experience with another API gateway is equally relevant. What You’ll Build First: Turn Kong AI Gateway into a production-ready service that gives application teams a secure, observable and self-service path to LLM and MCP connectivity. Build the guardrails for policy enforcement, traffic routing, rate limiting, auditability and reliable operations.

What You Will Do

• Operate and continuously improve our business-critical Kong API Gateway across OpenSnd Microsoft Azure, including incidents, changes, upgrades, security, capacity and lifecycle management.
• Design and build automation and self-service capabilities that make API onboarding, policy delivery and platform changes safer, faster and more consistent.
• Develop platform services and tooling using APIs, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
• Establish actionable observability across metrics, logs and traces using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and the Elastic Stack, and strengthen API security through policies, certificates, secrets and modern identity standards.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis and turn operational learnings into durable platform improvements.
• Share on-call responsibility for the platform and use incidents to eliminate recurring operational toil.

What You Bring

• You do not need experience with every tool listed below. We are looking for solid production judgment, curiosity and the ability to take ownership.
• Hands-on experience operating an API gateway in a production environment.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift and Microsoft Azure and services such as AKS and Entra ID.
• Proven automation skills using GitOps, CI/CD and infrastructure or configuration as code, with tools such as Terraform, Helm, Argo CD or GitLab CI.
• Software engineering or scripting experience. Go for Terraform integrations or Java and Spring Boot for self-service platform development is advantageous.
• Solid knowledge of networking, TLS, certificates, secrets and identity standards such as OAuth and OIDC.
• Experience with observability, incident response and root-cause analysis in business-critical, regulated environments. Knowledge of OpenTelemetry is a plus.