Platform Engineer

Uniting People
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Continuous Integration
Distributed Systems
Identity and Access Management
PostgreSQL
OAuth
OpenID
Akamai
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
TypeScript
React
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
Kafka
Bitbucket
Api Gateway
Splunk
Dynatrace
Go

Requirements

  • Strong commercial experience with Go (Golang) development.
  • Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (EKS and/or on-prem), Helm and GitOps/ArgoCD.
  • Experience with Envoy Proxy and/or Kong API Gateway.
  • Knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, PKCE, mTLS and modern authentication technologies.
  • Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego.
  • Exposure to OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace and/or Splunk.
  • Strong understanding of PostgreSQL, Kafka, networking and distributed systems.
  • Experience building scalable, resilient, production-grade platform services.

Nice to Have

  • AWS platform experience.
  • TypeScript/React.
  • Cloudflare or Akamai.
  • Bitbucket Pipelines and CI/CD.
  • Identity platforms such as ForgeRock or SAML.

If you're an experienced Platform Engineer with strong Go and Kubernetes expertise and are looking for your next contract opportunity, I'd be keen to hear from you. Apply today or get in touch for more information.

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