TL;DR

DevOps Engineer (Kong API Gateway): Managing and enhancing the Kong API Gateway platform for 8000+ internal engineers, focusing on API traffic, latency, and performance issues. Focus on designing, deploying, maintaining, and optimizing the API gateway infrastructure across hybrid environments (AKS, EKS, OpenShift) and ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.

Location: Hybrid work in Utrecht, Netherlands

Salary: €4,024–€5,747 gross monthly for a 36-hour work week

Company

%hirify_global% is a large financial institution empowering its engineers with instant and effortless application data exchanges.

What you will do

Design and implement Kong API Gateway solutions in AKS, EKS and OpenShift environments.
Manage the lifecycle of Kong components including Kong Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller, and plugins.
Maintain and develop scripts/pipelines for infrastructure management, configurations, and metric gathering.
Monitor and troubleshoot API traffic, latency, and gateway performance issues.
Collaborate with DevOps, Security, and Application teams to define API standards, policies, and governance.
Ensure secure API exposure through authentication, rate limiting, logging, and auditing.

Requirements

3+ years of Dev Ops/Platform Engineer experience.
Good experience with API Gateway, preferably Kong API Gateway.
Experience with Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), Azure DevOps Pipelines, and Network.
Experience with OpenShift and container deployments.
Proficiency in Bash, Python, Terraform, and AzureCLI scripts.
Familiarity with API security best practices (OAuth2, mTLS, JWT).

Nice to have

Experience with financial services technology landscapes and regulatory requirements.
Understanding of enterprise governance, security, and compliance in large organizations.
Familiarity with legacy system integration and gradual modernization approaches.
Experience in platform development.

Culture & Benefits

Gross monthly salary between EUR 4,024 and EUR 5,747.
Thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
Hybrid working model (balance between home and office work possible for most roles).
Option to decide the amount of your personal pension contribution.
Team culture built on empathy, outcome over output, pragmatic excellence, and continuous learning.

Hiring process

Application review and confirmation by email.
One or more (online) interviews, potentially including an assignment or assessment.
Offer provided after successful interviews, followed by a legal screening.
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