Job Description Insight Global is looking for an APIM Infrastructure Engineer to join one of North America's largest retail and wellness companies. The ideal candidate will be joining the Enterprise Platform Engineering team that currently manages a security layer for backend APIs. The organization will be moving from APIGEE Edge to KONG and will expect this resource to be a critical value add to guide both the internal team and the KONG vendor to be the SME through the migration. Additional responsibilities below: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define API requirements, integrations, and standards. Implement and manage API security policies, including OAuth, JWT, rate limiting, IP filtering, and other industry-standard security protocols. Monitor and analyze API performance using KONGs built-in tools and third-party monitoring solutions, identifying opportunities for optimization. Custom Plugin Development: Design and implement custom KONG plugins using Lua to meet specific business needs, such as advanced authentication, logging, rate limiting, and custom transformations. Monitoring, Logging & Tracing: Implement custom logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing capabilities through plugins to capture meaningful metrics, errors, and system health information. Use tracing tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Jaeger) to provide end-to-end visibility of API calls and identify performance bottlenecks. Develop reusable, efficient, and well-documented Lua scripts for KONG plugins that extend its capabilities beyond the default functionality. Provide documentation, training, and support to internal teams and stakeholders on KONG and API management practices. We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com .     To learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy: https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/ . Skills and Requirements Has 5+ years of experience in APIM management tools with a specialization in APIGEE and KONG and has previously migrated from APIEE to KONG Deep expertise in managing and optimizing API gateways, specifically KONG, and play a key role in implementing, configuring, and maintaining API management solutions for our organization Experience with Observability tool (OTEL framework) with deep skills in Datadog and Splunk for metrics and logs respectively. Has previous experience writing Kong plugins in LUA Experience working in SaaS environment and enabling application teams to aid with API adoption and onboarding. Ability to work effectively in an agile development environment and communicate with stakeholders at all levels. Experience with Kubernetes, Redis cache and any other AWS infra components needed to support Kong in AWS. Create scalable, optimized and secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure. Experience to apply Kong patches to Kubernetes cluster null We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion,sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military oruniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, andordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.