Platform Engineer (Urgent)

Platform Engineer - Go, Envoy/Kong & Kubernetes

Location: Glasgow
Working Model: 5 days per week onsite
Contract: Contract
Rate: £425 per day

We are looking for an experienced.*Platform Engineer.*to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and operating secure, resilient, high-volume infrastructure services.

This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong experience across Go, API gateways, Kubernetes, distributed systems and modern cloud-native infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate Envoy Proxy and/or Kong API Gateway infrastructure supporting production traffic.

• Develop Go-based control-plane services, gRPC APIs and Kubernetes controllers.

• Build and maintain secure gateway and authentication capabilities using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE and mTLS.

• Develop and maintain OPA/Rego policies for gateway-layer authorisation.

• Manage multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments using Helm, ArgoCD and GitOps.

• Build and extend observability capabilities using OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace and Splunk.

• Automate CDN/WAF configuration and security controls.

• Work with PostgreSQL and Kafka-based platform services.

• Support production incidents, improve resilience and contribute to runbooks and production readiness.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to onboard services and migrate traffic from Legacy infrastructure.

Essential Skills

• Platform engineering experience.

• Strong hands-on Go/Golang development experience.

• Significant experience with Envoy Proxy and/or Kong API Gateway.

• Experience with technologies such as xDS/ADS, ext_authz, HTTP/2, gRPC and WebSockets.

• Strong production experience with Kubernetes, including Helm, HPA, PodDisruptionBudgets, NetworkPolicy, namespace isolation and ArgoCD/GitOps.

• Experience building control-plane services, gRPC APIs and/or Kubernetes controllers using client-go.

• Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE, mTLS and session management.

• Hands-on experience with OPA and Rego policy authoring.

• Experience with OpenTelemetry, including traces, metrics and logs.

• Strong understanding of networking across L3-L7, distributed systems and resilient infrastructure design.

• Experience building high-volume, low-latency, highly available production services.

Desirable Skills

• Dynatrace and Splunk SIEM integration.

• Akamai, Cloudflare or other CDN/WAF platforms.

• WAF-as-code automation.

• PostgreSQL, including HA, connection pooling and PITR.

• Kafka, including MSK, Schema Registry and DLQ patterns.

• DNS steering, GeoDNS, Akamai GTM or health-check routing.

• TLS certificate life cycle management, cert-manager and HSM/KMS.

• AWS experience, particularly EKS and MSK.

• TypeScript/React experience.

• Banking or financial services experience.

Apply Now

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly technical Platform Engineer with strong Go, Envoy/Kong and Kubernetes expertise to work on complex, large-scale infrastructure.

Location: Glasgow - 5 days onsite
Rate: £425 per day

Please apply with your latest CV.