Kong API Gateway Surge Engineer - Migrations & Reliability

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United States

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Acuity seeks a Kong/API Gateway Surge Engineer to support time‑bound migrations, automation, and validation for a large federal Enterprise API Gateway environment. This role accelerates gateway implementation, handles developer portal configuration, CI/CD touchpoints, observability planning, and evidence-based validation within approved release processes.

Candidate will work within Acuity’s architecture and security standards, contributing to surge readiness, dual-run troubleshooting, and

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
5+ years of experience supporting enterprise API gateway implementation, configuration, automation, migration, integration, or production-readiness activities.
Hands-on experience with Kong, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Kong Konnect, or comparable enterprise API gateway products.
Experience configuring gateway services, routes, consumers, plugins, policies, certificates, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, logging, telemetry, and environment promotion patterns.
Experience supporting developer portal configuration, API catalog capabilities, API documentation, access request workflows, or self-service onboarding enablement.
Experience supporting API migration waves, dual-run operations, validation evidence, defect resolution, rollback readiness, and cutover support.
Experience developing or integrating CI/CD, GitOps, configuration-as-code, reusable automation, or gateway deployment-support artifacts.
Experience with observability integration, including AppDynamics, ELK, OpenTelemetry, dashboards, log flows, telemetry validation, or comparable monitoring tools.
Experience troubleshooting gateway implementation, migration, plugin, policy, routing, certificate, identity, connectivity, or telemetry issues.
Strong written communication skills for surge documentation, configuration evidence, runbooks, status inputs, validation materials, and knowledge transfer.

Responsibilities

Implement, configure, integrate, validate, troubleshoot, and document Kong or comparable enterprise API gateway capabilities for approved surge activities
Configure gateway services, routes, consumers, plugins, policies, certificates, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, logging, telemetry, and environment promotion patterns
Support developer portal configuration, API catalog capabilities, API documentation workflows, access request patterns, and self-service onboarding enablement
Support accelerated API migration wave preparation, gateway configuration, validation evidence, defect resolution, rollback readiness, and dual-run troubleshooting
Develop and validate CI/CD, GitOps, configuration-as-code, and automation touchpoints within approved pipeline and release processes
Integrate gateway capabilities with approved identity, network, monitoring, logging, incident-management, change-management, and observability processes
Support AppDynamics, ELK, OpenTelemetry planning, dashboard inputs, log flow validation, telemetry checks, and operational visibility for surge activities
Troubleshoot surge-related issues involving gateway configuration, plugins, policies, routing, certificates, connectivity, identity integration, telemetry, and migration defects
Provide technical office hours, knowledge transfer, configuration documentation, surge status inputs, validation evidence, and completion artifacts