Kong API Gateway Specialist
eTelligent Group LLC · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 81 days eTelligent Group LLC's roles stay open a median of 53 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of eTelligent Group LLC's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at eTelligent Group LLC
- high 5 stale, 0 reposted of 5 open
- Hiring momentum
- 7 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
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About this role
As a Kong Platform and Migration Engineer at eTel, you will be responsible for building and configuring Kong on the IRS platform, migrating APIs in planned waves, and ensuring system integrity during the process. Your daily tasks will include configuring control and data planes, converting API definitions, running functional tests, and applying security patterns, all while adhering to IRS change control processes.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- 4+ years in API gateway, integration or middleware engineering
- Hands on configuration of Kong, or a comparable gateway such as webMethods API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft or AWS API Gateway
- Working knowledge of REST, HTTP, TLS and mTLS, OAuth2, OIDC and JWT
- Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift and declarative configuration in Git
- Comfort with Linux, shell scripting and at least one of Python or Go
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience
Nice to have
- Kong certification, CKA, or a cloud certification
- IBM webMethods experience, especially API migration
- An active IRS MBI or prior IRS work
- Custom Kong plugin work in Lua or Go
Worth weighing
- U.S. Citizenship required
- Must be able to obtain and maintain an IRS Moderate Background Investigation (MBI)/Public Trust
- Hybrid work environment with IRS facilities and approved remote work locations
- Clear IRS approval gates and structured two-week sprints may imply a highly regulated work process
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