Platform Engineer

Role: Platform Engineer

Employment: Contract - Inside IR35

Location: Glasgow,UK - Onsite

Experience: 8+ years

NOTE: Looking for candidates from UK only with valid work permit.

Skills:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent with 8+ years of industry experience
• 5+ years hands-on experience with Envoy Proxy (xDS/ADS, ext_authz, HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSocket) and/or Kong API Gateway (plugin development, DB-less mode, Admin API)
• Strong Go development skills - control-plane services, gRPC APIs, Kubernetes controllers (client-go), concurrency patterns
• Production Kubernetes experience (EKS and/or on-prem clusters) - Helm charts, HPA, PodDisruptionBudgets, NetworkPolicy, namespace isolation, ArgoCD GitOps
• Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0 / OIDC / PKCE flows, DPoP sender-constrained tokens, mTLS, and session management patterns
• Experience with OPA (Open Policy Agent) policy authoring in Rego and sidecar deployment patterns
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry (traces, metrics, logs), Dynatrace, and Splunk SIEM integration
• Working knowledge of CDN/WAF platforms (Akamai Ion, Kona, Cloudflare) and WAF-as-code automation
• Experience with PostgreSQL (HA, connection pooling, PITR) and Kafka (MSK, Schema Registry, DLQ patterns)
• Familiarity with DNS steering (GeoDNS, Akamai GTM, health-check routing) and TLS certificate lifecycle (cert-manager, HSM/KMS)
• Strong CS fundamentals - networking (L3-L7), distributed systems, data structures & algorithms
• Experience building high-volume, low-latency, resilient infrastructure services