Kong Technical Lead

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Kong Technical Lead

• Experience.

• 8 - 12

• Location

• Pan India

• Design, develop, and manage services, routes, and plugins within Kong Gateway

• Familiarity with API lifecycle stages (design, publish, monitor, retire) and governance practices

• Develop custom Kong plugins using Lua, including pre-function and post-function logic

• Deep understanding of the A_P_I_ G_a_t_e_w_a_y’s_ r_o_l_e _in API-led architecture and overall microservices landscape

• Strong understanding of REST,gRPC,GraphQL, and OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications.

• Knowledge of API versioning,rate limiting, and throttling strategies.

• Deep knowledge of OAuth 2.0,OIDC,JWT, API key mechanisms.

• Work with observability and monitoring tools like Dynatrace to ensure system reliability and performance

• Ensure test coverage and support automation of API tests

• Utilize tools like Postman, SOAPUI, and Insomnia for API testing and validation

• Use decK (Declarative Configuration for Kong) for API Gateway configuration and deployment

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for automating deployment of API Gateway configurations (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AzureDevOps etc.).

• Experience or exposure to service mesh technologies is a plus

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud networking is highly desirable

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

• Excellent communication and teamwork capabilities

• Ability to work independently and manage time effectively in a remote setting

• Ability to collaborate with architects, backend/frontend developers, and security teams

• Collaborate effectively in a remote, globally distributed team, working in an onsite-offshore model

1. Documentation: Experience writing or maintaining API documentation, ideally using tools like Swagger UI, Redoc, or Postman Collections.

Agile Development Experience:

OFFICIAL

• 1. Comfort working in Scrum or Kanban teams.

1. Familiarity with story estimation, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
2. Work with collaboration and monitoring tools such as Jira, Confluence, Splunk, and Dynatrace

Deliver

No

Performance Parameter

Measure

1

Process

No. of cases resolved per day, compliance to process and quality standards, meeting process level SLAs, Pulse score, Customer feedback, NSAT/ ESAT

2

Team Management

Productivity, efficiency, absenteeism

3

Capability development

Triages completed, Technical Test performance

Mandatory Skills: API Management & Integration using Kong .

Experience: 5-8 Years .

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