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About the Role
Join Capgemini's growing Enterprise Integration Practice as a Senior API Gateway Engineer, specialising in Kong. Based in Sydney, Melbourne, or Canberra, you will design, develop, and implement enterprise-scale API gateway solutions, helping clients modernise their integration platforms across both greenfield and brownfield environments. Deep hands-on experience with the Kong platform is essential. As a trusted technical advisor, you will work closely with enterprise customers to guide the implementation, deployment, and adoption of Kong technologies. You'll collaborate with stakeholders ranging from developers and architects through to executive leadership, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and deliver long-term business value. This is an exciting opportunity to work on innovative projects across a range of industries, including Australian Government and other highly regulated environments. You'll have the chance to shape best practices, influence solution design, and contribute to the successful delivery of cutting-edge API and integration platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, deployment, and adoption of Kong API Gateway solutions for enterprise customers.
- Facilitate technical workshops and provide architecture guidance across API, integration, security, and platform domains.
- Deliver hands-on engineering, configuration, and troubleshooting for Kong platform implementations.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, business stakeholders, and operations teams to ensure successful project outcomes.
- Define and promote best practices, governance standards, security controls, and reusable automation frameworks.
- Contribute to thought leadership through technical documentation, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- Australian Citizen with an active AGSVA Baseline clearance or higher.
- 8+ years' experience delivering enterprise integration platforms and services.
- 5+ years' hands-on experience with API Gateway/API Management solutions, preferably Kong.
- Proven experience in large-scale, regulated enterprise environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kong API Gateway, API integrations, and Kong Konnect.
- Solid understanding of APIs, microservices, and API-led integration architectures.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, Terraform, decK, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Strong knowledge of DevOps, networking, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience implementing API security controls including OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, and mTLS.
- Proficiency with Linux and cloud-native technologies.
- Experience working within Agile and/or Waterfall delivery environments.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to engage technical and executive audiences.
Skills
- Kong API Gateway
- API integrations
- Kong Konnect
- Kubernetes
- Containers
- Terraform
- decK
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- DevOps
- Networking
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- API security controls (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS)
- Linux
- Cloud-native technologies
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
- Problem-solving
Location
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Canberra
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8+ years' experience
- 5+ years' hands-on experience
Benefits
- Exposure to the scale of transformation
- Depth of expertise
- Opportunities for career growth
- Positive work-life balance
- Flexible working arrangements
- Countless learning and development opportunities
- Access to 250,000 courses
- Numerous external certifications
- Total Reward package
- Range of core and flexible benefits
- Peer Recognition Portal (‘Celebrate’)
About the Company
- Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value.
- We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people.
- With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries.
- We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations.
- The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
- Make it real | www.capgemini.com
Equal Opportunity
- We don’t just believe in inclusion we actively go out to making it a working reality.
- Driven by our core values and ‘Inclusive future for all’ campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work.