Kong API & AI Gateway Engineer — Production & Automation

SIX Group Services Ltd.; Madrid; Híbrido; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible Work Models

Personal Development

Agile Working Methods

Descripción de la vacante

SIX Group Services Ltd. in Madrid is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to operate and evolve our Kong API Gateway. You will manage production incidents, automate onboarding and policy delivery, and build self‑service tooling for our AI/LLM connectivity across OpenAI and MCP platforms.

You will own platform services, leverage GitOps, CI/CD, and IaC, and strengthen security and observability. Hybrid work model with opportunities to shape critical shared infrastructure.

Formación

• Hands‑on experience operating an API gateway in a production environment.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and Microsoft Azure.
• Proven automation skills using GitOps, CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Software engineering or scripting experience; Go for Terraform integrations or Java and Spring Boot 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 regulated environments.

Responsabilidades

• Operate and continuously improve our Kong API Gateway across Azure, including incidents, changes, upgrades, security, capacity and lifecycle management.
• Design and build automation and self‑service capabilities for API onboarding and policy delivery.
• 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 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.

Conocimientos

API gateway ops

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Microsoft Azure

GitOps/CI‑CD

Terraform

Java/Spring Boot

Herramientas

Terraform

Helm

Argo CD

GitLab CI

Descripción del empleo

SIX Group Services Ltd. in Madrid is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to operate and evolve our Kong API Gateway. You will manage production incidents, automate onboarding and policy delivery, and build self‑service tooling for our AI/LLM connectivity across OpenAI and MCP platforms.

You will own platform services, leverage GitOps, CI/CD, and IaC, and strengthen security and observability. Hybrid work model with opportunities to shape critical shared infrastructure.