Infrastructure Specialist

About the Role:

• We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Kong Mesh Tech Lead to architect, implement, and manage service mesh solutions across our distributed systems. In this role, you will lead the design and operation of Kong Mesh (based on Kuma) for managing microservices communication, security, and observability at scale. You’ll play a crucial role in defining service-to-service architecture and ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and deployment of Kong Mesh across our environments (on-prem and cloud).
• Define and enforce best practices for service mesh architecture, traffic routing, zero-trust security, observability, and policy enforcement.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and development teams to integrate Kong Mesh with CI/CD, monitoring, and logging solutions.
• Develop custom policies, plugins, and automation scripts to enhance Kong Mesh capabilities.
• Monitor mesh performance, troubleshoot service communication issues, and optimize mesh configurations.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to platform and application teams.
• Stay up to date with the Kong ecosystem and propose enhancements aligned with evolving business and technical needs.

Requirements:

• Must-Have:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience implementing Kong Mesh / Kuma, or similar service mesh solutions (Istio, Linkerd).
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Envoy proxy, and cloud-native networking concepts.
• Proficiency in scripting and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Bash, Python).
• Solid understanding of microservices, zero-trust security, mTLS, RBAC, and network policies.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, logging (e.g., Fluentd, Loki), and monitoring (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).

About us: Ascendion is a Global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” [EngineeringAI] methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital.