Tech Stack

Description

You will lead the AI Engineering team within the VA Lighthouse Program, which transforms how Veterans, partners, and teams access critical VA data through secure, scalable APIs. You will administer Kong Gateway, define API standards, manage OpenAPI contracts, implement CI/CD workflows, and deliver observability across multiple teams.

Requirements

• Production experience administering Kong Gateway
• Experience building/extending Kong plugins and deep gateway policy knowledge
• Strong API design background and expert-level OpenAPI skills
• Kubernetes deployment and troubleshooting
• DevOps practices (GitOps, CI/CD, automation) and authentication expertise with JWT and enterprise identity systems

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize Kong Gateway (routes, services, plugins, certificates, rate limiting, logging)
• Build and extend Kong plugins and manage Kong in Kubernetes (Helm, upgrades, config promotion)
• Define API standards, review API designs, and manage OpenAPI contracts, versioning, and governance
• Implement authentication and security patterns (JWT, claims mapping, key rotation, AD/LDAP integration)
• Deliver observability: API metering, dashboards, logs/metrics/traces, SLO reporting