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Platform Engineer
📍 Location: Glasgow, UK (Onsite)
📄 Job Type: Contract
We're looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and operating a modern cloud-native platform supporting mission-critical applications. This is an excellent opportunity for engineers who enjoy designing scalable infrastructure, developing platform services, and working with Kubernetes, API gateways, cloud-native technologies, and security-first architectures.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate production-grade Envoy Proxy and Kong API Gateway infrastructure serving multiple business applications.
- Develop Go-based control plane services, including xDS controllers, Ingress Registry, Session Manager, and Context Propagator.
- Implement and maintain Open Policy Agent (OPA) authorization policies using Rego.
- Build and enhance OpenTelemetry observability pipelines integrating with Dynatrace and Splunk SIEM.
- Manage GitOps-driven Kubernetes deployments using ArgoCD and Helm across multi-cluster environments.
- Automate WAF rule management across Akamai and Cloudflare using Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Contribute to the platform operator dashboard using TypeScript and React.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to onboard services and migrate applications from legacy infrastructure.
- Participate in production support, incident response, and platform reliability improvements.
- Promote engineering excellence through code reviews, testing, automation, documentation, and observability best practices.
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Required Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering or platform engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Envoy Proxy (xDS/ADS, ext_authz, HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSocket) and/or Kong API Gateway.
- Excellent Go (Golang) development experience building distributed platform services.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS and/or On-Prem), including Helm, HPA, Network Policies, Pod Disruption Budgets, namespace isolation, and ArgoCD GitOps.
- Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), PKCE, DPoP, mTLS, and authentication/session management.
- Experience developing authorization policies using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego.
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, and Splunk SIEM.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Kafka (MSK), Schema Registry, and Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) patterns.
- Knowledge of CDN/WAF platforms such as Akamai and Cloudflare.
- Strong networking fundamentals (Layer 3–7), distributed systems, and scalable platform architecture.
- Experience building resilient, low-latency, high-throughput infrastructure services.
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Nice to Have
- TypeScript & React development experience.
- AWS services including EKS, MSK, Lambda, Direct Connect, and Network Firewall.
- Bitbucket Pipelines and GitOps CI/CD workflows.
- Experience with Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol (CAEP).
- Identity platform experience (ForgeRock, SAML Federation, Token Exchange).
Why Join?
- Work on cutting-edge cloud-native platform engineering projects.
- Design and build highly scalable infrastructure supporting enterprise applications.
- Collaborate with experienced platform, cloud, and security engineers.
- Exposure to modern Kubernetes, API Gateway, observability, and security technologies.
- Opportunity to make a significant impact on large-scale production platforms.
📩 Interested?
If you have strong experience in Go, Kubernetes, Envoy/Kong API Gateway, Cloud-Native Infrastructure, OAuth/OIDC Security, and Platform Engineering, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now or share your updated CV to explore this exciting contract opportunity in Glasgow, UK to james.a@dabster.net
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