Experteer Overview
In this role you will operate and evolve a production Kong API Gateway in a cloud-first setting, enabling safe, self-service API onboarding and policy delivery. You’ll work within an international platform team to connect apps to AI services securely and reliably. The position emphasizes hands-on ownership, automation, and observable, secure platform operations. This is an opportunity to shape a scalable API platform and reduce toil through GitOps and automation.

Compensaciones / Ventajas
• Operate and continuously improve Kong API Gateway across Microsoft Azure, handling incidents, changes, upgrades, security, capacity and lifecycle management.
• Design and build automation and self-service capabilities for API onboarding, policy delivery and platform changes.
• Develop platform services and tooling using APIs, GitOps, CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Establish observability across metrics, logs and traces with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and Elastic Stack; strengthen API security via policies, certificates, secrets and identity standards.
• Troubleshoot production issues,



perform root-cause analysis and translate learnings into durable platform improvements.
• Share on-call responsibility for the platform and use incidents to eliminate operational toil.

Responsabilidades
• Hands-on experience operating an API gateway in production.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift and Microsoft Azure (AKS) and Entra ID.
• Automation skills using GitOps, CI/CD and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, GitLab CI).
• Software engineering or scripting experience; Go for Terraform integrations or Java/Spring Boot is advantageous.
• Solid knowledge of networking, TLS, certificates, secrets and identity standards (OAuth, OIDC).
• Experience with observability, incident response and root-cause analysis in regulated environments; OpenTelemetry is a plus.

Requisitos principales
• Flexible Work Models
• Personal Development
• Agile Working Methods

📌 API Platform Engineer, Kong API & AI Gateway (Las Rozas de Madrid)
🏢 Six Group
📍 Las Rozas de Madrid