Gateway & Kubernetes DevOps Engineer — Platform Automation

NTT DATA, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k) program

FSA/HSA

AD&D insurance

Employee assistance

Job summary

NTT DATA seeks a hands-on Systems Integration Senior Specialist to deploy, automate, govern, and support enterprise API and AI gateway solutions on Kubernetes in the Atlanta area. You will establish reusable deployment and security patterns, integrate gateway capabilities with cloud-native platforms, and help teams follow enterprise standards.

The role requires strong experience in API gateways, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, Terraform, Helm, and GitOps, plus security controls like OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of overall experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, Kubernetes engineering, API platform engineering, or related enterprise technology roles.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with API gateways, ingress gateways, service proxies, or API management technologies, including routing, policy enforcement, traffic management, and production support.
• Minimum 4 years of hands-on Kubernetes experience, including deployments, services, ingress or Gateway API, secrets, ConfigMaps, networking, autoscaling, and troubleshooting.
• Minimum 4 years of DevOps automation experience using Git, CI/CD pipelines, Helm, Terraform, infrastructure-as-code, and automated deployment practices.
• Minimum 3 years of AWS cloud experience, including hands-on work with EKS and related networking, load balancing, IAM, certificate, and observability services.
• Minimum 3 years of experience implementing or supporting API security controls including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, TLS, mTLS, authentication, authorization, and secure secret/certificate management.
• Minimum 2 years of experience supporting production platforms through monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, upgrades, design reviews, technical documentation, and developer enablement.
• Degree: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Travel: As required based on client or project needs.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and support enterprise API and AI gateway solutions, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and tool integrations.
• Build and manage gateway workloads on Kubernetes, including AWS EKS or similar managed Kubernetes platforms.
• Create, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts, Terraform modules, and GitOps-based deployment processes.
• Configure ingress, services, load balancers, TLS certificates, routing, authentication, authorization, rate limits, and gateway policies.
• Define reusable gateway patterns, standards, and deployment templates and guide developers in following API, AI, security, and platform engineering standards.
• Perform design reviews, production troubleshooting, upgrades, monitoring, incident support, root-cause analysis, and operational documentation.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, network, security, architecture, and platform teams to resolve integration and operational issues.

Skills

DevOps engineering

Kubernetes

API gateways

GitOps

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Git

CI/CD

AWS EKS

Job description

NTT DATA seeks a hands-on Systems Integration Senior Specialist to deploy, automate, govern, and support enterprise API and AI gateway solutions on Kubernetes in the Atlanta area. You will establish reusable deployment and security patterns, integrate gateway capabilities with cloud-native platforms, and help teams follow enterprise standards.

The role requires strong experience in API gateways, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, Terraform, Helm, and GitOps, plus security controls like OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and