Platform Engineers
1 day ago
Glasgow
Required 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 Nice to have • TypeScript/React experience for operator dashboard development, • AWS infrastructure experience (EKS, MSK, Lambda, Direct Connect, Network Firewall), • Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD and GitOps delivery workflows, • Experience with CAEP (Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol) or similar session revocation mechanisms, • Background in identity platforms (ForgeRock, SAML federation, token exchange patterns) Job Description • Design, build and operate Envoy and Kong gateway infrastructure serving production traffic across multiple lines of business, • Develop Go-based control-plane services - Ingress Registry, xDS controllers, Session Manager, Context Propagator, • Implement and maintain OPA policy bundles for coarse-grained authorization at the gateway layer, • Build and extend OpenTelemetry instrumentation pipelines (OTel Collector, Dynatrace OTLP ingest, Splunk SIEM forwarding), • Manage GitOps-driven deployments via ArgoCD and Helm across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, • Automate WAF rule management across Akamai and Cloudflare using WAF-as-code patterns, • Contribute to the platform operator console (TypeScript/React) for route management, drift detection, and session visibility, • Collaborate with LOB teams to onboard routes and migrate traffic from legacy ingress infrastructure, • Participate in incident response, runbook development, and production readiness reviews, • Champion software engineering best practices - code review, testing, documentation, and observability-first design