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Kong / API Gateway Surge Engineer
Full Time
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$170000 - $210000 per year
United States
Description

Position Summary

SD Solutions is building a candidate pipeline for the Kong / API Gateway Surge Engineer role for potential CLIN 0006 authorization. This role provides product-specific surge support when IRS authorizes a new API gateway product and determines additional capacity is needed. Surge work covers: gateway configuration, plugins/policies, routing, developer portal configuration, environment promotion, accelerated API migration waves, CI/CD integration, governance validation, observability integration, and knowledge transfer.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide product-specific engineering support for gateway configuration, plugins/policies, routing, certificates, runtime groups, developer portal configuration, and environment promotion within Government-approved boundaries
  • Support accelerated API migration wave preparation, test execution, defect resolution, rollback validation, and dual-run troubleshooting when Government authorizes
  • Support EAG/API-gateway CI/CD integration touchpoints, GitOps/configuration-as-code artifacts, governance validation, and observability and monitoring integration for the approved gateway product
  • Provide knowledge transfer, technical office hours, configuration documentation, surge activity status reporting, and completion evidence for Government acceptance

Required Qualifications

  • Deep product-specific experience with Kong Enterprise, Kong Konnect, or comparable API gateway platform: plugins/policies, developer portal configuration, GitOps, observability integration
  • API migration support: wave preparation, dual-run troubleshooting, rollback validation, test execution within Government-paced delivery
  • CI/CD integration with Government-owned DevSecOps platforms for gateway configuration deployment - does not own CI/CD platform
  • Knowledge transfer and technical documentation in a federal delivery context
  • Active or ability to obtain IRS Minimum Background Investigation (MBI)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Kong Certified Professional certification
  • Direct Kong Enterprise federal implementation experience
  • IRS or Treasury D&PE program experience
  • Active MBI from IRS program

Clearance

  • IRS Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) required prior to start

Work Location

  • Primarily remote
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