Kong Admin

Kong Administrator / AI Gateway Engineer

Recro | Bangalore (Hybrid) | Full-Time

Location Bangalore (Hybrid)

Shift Timing 2:00 PM – 11:00 PM IST

Experience 4+ Years

Employment Type Full-Time

Transport Cab facility provided (two-way)

Job Summary

We are looking for a skilled Kong Administrator / AI Gateway Engineer to join Recro's technology team in

Bangalore. The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on experience in API Gateway management, Kong

administration, and AI/LLM proxy development, along with solid foundations in cloud infrastructure (Azure),

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and CI/CD automation. This role will support enterprise-grade API and AI

Gateway solutions, enabling secure, scalable and governed access to multiple LLM providers.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure, administer, and support Kong Gateway environments (OSS/Enterprise) including setup,

maintenance and upgrades.

• Design and implement enterprise-grade AI Gateway solutions using Kong AI Gateway.
• Configure AI-specific policies including prompt logging, content filtering, token controls and guardrails.
• Enable secure access to multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini,

Mistral, Llama) through a unified gateway architecture.

• Develop routing strategies across multiple AI models based on latency, cost and availability, including load

balancing and failover management.

• Implement AI observability, token analytics, usage tracking and cost governance.
• Integrate RAG-based AI services through secure API management frameworks.
• Implement API security, authentication, throttling and governance policies (OAuth2, JWT, OIDC).
• Deploy and manage Kong in Kubernetes-based environments using Docker and Helm.
• Manage Kong Konnect configurations — routes, services, consumers, catalog, upstreams and API packages.
• Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform, with Azure compute, storage, security and networking.
• Automate deployments and operational processes using CI/CD tools (Jenkins / GitHub Actions).
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize gateway performance using Prometheus, Grafana and ELK/Splunk.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise AI governance, security and regulatory requirements.
• Establish AI platform standards, reusable AI APIs and best practices for GenAI adoption.
• Support AI agent and MCP (Model Context Protocol)-based integrations within enterprise ecosystems.

Must-Have Skills

• 4+ years of relevant experience in API Management, Middleware or Platform Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Kong Gateway administration (OSS/Enterprise) — setup, maintenance and

upgrades.

• Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
• Azure (compute, storage, security and network).

• CI/CD tools: Jenkins / GitHub Actions.