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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Gateway, Kubernetes & DevOps Engineer - **Company:** NTT DATA, Inc. - **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States - **Salary:** $124,800.0 - $145,600.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, User Authentication, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems, Identity and Access Management, Routing, OAuth, OpenID, Prometheus, JSON Web Token, Software Engineering, Enterprise Application Integration, SSL Certificate Management, Transport Layer Security, Enterprise Software Applications, Load Balancing, Cloud Platform System, Autoscaling, Istio, Large Language Models, Grafana, Software Security, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Multi-Cloud, Git, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Azure AKS, Api Gateway, Terraform, Splunk, Api Management, AWS EKS - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/CFB0552C84A14F24AC2AFBF72857AA93/job/ ## About the Role * Minimum 8 years of overall experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, Kubernetes engineering, API platform engineering, or related enterprise technology roles. * Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with API gateways, ingress gateways, service proxies, or API management technologies, including routing, policy enforcement, traffic management, and production support. * Minimum 4 years of hands-on Kubernetes experience, including deployments, services, ingress or Gateway API, secrets, ConfigMaps, networking, autoscaling, and troubleshooting. * Minimum 4 years of DevOps automation experience using Git, CI/CD pipelines, Helm, Terraform, infrastructure-as-code, and automated deployment practices. * Minimum 3 years of AWS cloud experience, including hands-on work with EKS and related networking, load balancing, IAM, certificate, and observability services. * Minimum 3 years of experience implementing or supporting API security controls including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, TLS, mTLS, authentication, authorization, and secure secret/certificate management. * Minimum 2 years of experience supporting production platforms through monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, upgrades, design reviews, technical documentation, and developer enablement. * Degree: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent relevant work experience. * Travel: As required based on client or project needs. Nice to Have * 1 year of hands-on exposure to Model Context Protocol (MCP), including MCP servers, clients, tools, authentication, security, and enterprise integration patterns. * Experience with AI/LLM gateway governance, AI traffic controls, model routing, prompt/response policy enforcement, or MCP server integration. * Experience with Istio, Envoy, service mesh technologies, or Kubernetes Gateway API implementations. * Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, or similar observability and monitoring tools. * Experience with Azure API Management (APIM), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or multi-cloud gateway environments. * Experience establishing reusable platform patterns, engineering standards, and onboarding guidance for application development teams. Target Profile Gateway Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, or Cloud Platform Engineer with strong hands-on gateway, Kubernetes, cloud, security, and automation experience. ## Description We are seeking a hands-on engineer to deploy, automate, govern, and support enterprise API and AI gateway solutions running on Kubernetes. The engineer will establish reusable deployment and security patterns, integrate gateway capabilities with cloud-native platforms, and help development teams follow enterprise gateway, security, deployment, and operational standards. Day to Day Job Duties * Deploy, configure, and support enterprise API and AI gateway solutions, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and tool integrations. * Build and manage gateway workloads on Kubernetes, including AWS EKS or similar managed Kubernetes platforms. * Create, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts, Terraform modules, and GitOps-based deployment processes. * Configure ingress, services, load balancers, TLS certificates, routing, authentication, authorization, rate limits, and gateway policies. * Define reusable gateway patterns, standards, and deployment templates and guide developers in following API, AI, security, and platform engineering standards. * Perform design reviews, production troubleshooting, upgrades, monitoring, incident support, root-cause analysis, and operational documentation. * Collaborate with application, cloud, network, security, architecture, and platform teams to resolve integration and operational issues. ## Related Videos - [Our GitOps approach for deploying an Identity Provider and an API Gateway in a SaaS company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/776-our-gitops-approach-for-deploying-an-identity-provider-and-an-api-gateway-in-a-saas-company) - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [Rate-limiting using eBPF and Istio: How to protect your SaaS customers from themselves](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100220-rate-limiting-using-ebpf-and-istio-how-to-protect-your-saas-customers-from-themselves) - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [Get started with securing your cloud-native Java microservices applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/123-get-started-with-securing-your-cloud-native-java-microservices-applications) - [Git for Code Reviews](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/429-git-for-code-reviews) ## Related Articles - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [Everything a Developer Needs to Know About MCP with Neo4j](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/604-everything-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-mcp-with-neo4j) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [7 Most Popular Web Developer Jobs in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/163-7-most-popular-web-developer-jobs-in-europe) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs)