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LeadFull-timeAWSKubernetesCI/CDGitAIAPI
Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
The VA Lighthouse Program is seeking an API Developer Lead to support their mission of transforming how Veterans and partners access critical VA data through secure, scalable APIs. This is a fully remote, temp-to-hire role with conversion eligibility.
Key Responsibilities
- →Administer and optimize Kong Gateway, including routes, services, plugins, certificates, and rate limiting.
- →Build and extend Kong plugins and manage Kong in Kubernetes using Helm/operator patterns.
- →Define API standards, review API designs, and manage OpenAPI contracts, versioning, and governance.
- →Implement authentication and security patterns including JWT, claims mapping, key rotation, and AD/LDAP integration.
- →Build and operate Kubernetes resources and manage AWS networking, compute, load balancing, DNS, and secrets.
- →Implement CI/CD and GitOps workflows with automated validation and environment promotion.
- →Deliver observability through API metering, dashboards, logs/metrics/traces, and SLO reporting.
- →Troubleshoot Linux/container issues and support on-call operations with runbooks and documentation.
Requirements
- ✓Production experience administering Kong Gateway.
- ✓Experience building/extending Kong plugins with deep gateway policy knowledge.
- ✓Strong API design background and expert-level OpenAPI skills.
- ✓API governance including linting, validation, contract testing, and semantic versioning.
- ✓Kubernetes deployment and troubleshooting expertise.
- ✓DevOps practices including GitOps, CI/CD, and automation.
- ✓Authentication expertise with JWT and enterprise identity systems.
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