Information Sys Engineer( Kong)
NetApp · Posted Oct 15
Hybrid cloud data services, enterprise storage, and cloud operations solutions
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About the role
NetApp is a data infrastructure company whose enterprise-grade storage service is embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure; the Platform Engineering team owns the API gateway and enterprise middleware infrastructure that powers the company's microservices ecosystem. This role is a senior API Gateway engineer and middleware administrator position focused on Kong Gateway. The engineer will develop custom Kong plugins in Lua/Python, administer Kong and middleware platforms such as Oracle Fusion and NGINX, and build CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
What you will do
- Developing custom Kong plugins using Lua/Python to implement complex business logic, security policies, and integrations
- Administering Kong Gateway infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability
- Managing enterprise middleware platforms including Oracle Fusion, NGINX, and application servers
- Building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for automated deployment of Kong plugins and middleware components
- Architecting API and integration solutions that power our microservices ecosystem
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong demonstrated experience in custom Kong plugin development using Lua, Python and Kong PDK
- Strong demonstrated experience in Kong lifecycle management
- Authentication, authorization, transformation, traffic control, and logging plugins
- Plugin testing, debugging, optimization, versioning, and deployment
- Kong Gateway installation, configuration, and administration
- Architecture, clustering, HA, and load balancing
- Kong Admin API, and best practices
- Service/route/upstream/consumer/plugin management
- Performance tuning, SSL/TLS management, upgrades, monitoring
- Strong demonstrated experience in Lua, Python, Kong SDK and Java
- Microservices, async programming (asyncio), and database connectivity
- Message queue integration (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and Azure SDK
- Middleware automation, ETL scripts, and monitoring solutions
- Testing and code quality
- App/Web Servers: Tomcat/Nginx/IIS/JBoss: Installation, configuration, deployment, tuning, and load balancing
- CI/CD pipelines for Kong plugins and middleware
- Automated build/test/deployment, multi-environment strategies
- Quality gates, security scanning, deployment strategies
- Education IC - Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience.Mgr & Exec - Typically requires a minimum of 6 years of related experience.
- We are seeking a highly skilled Senior API Gateway engineer & Middleware Administrator with 10+ years of experience to architect, develop, and manage our API gateway and enterprise middleware infrastructure.
- This role combines strong demonstrated hands-on development expertise in Lua and Python with deep operational knowledge of Kong API Gateway and enterprise middleware platforms.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About NetApp
NetApp, Inc. is an American data infrastructure and data management company that provides unified data storage, integrated data services, and hybrid multi-cloud operations solutions to enterprise customers. Founded in 1992, the company empowers global enterprises to manage applications and data seamlessly across on-premises environments and major public clouds. NetApp specializes in intelligent data infrastructure, cyber resilience, and AI-driven data optimization.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 11700 employees
- Founded
- 1992
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer
President
Chief Technology Officer
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