What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer position at Ampstek?
Job Title : Platform Engineer
Location : Jersey City, NJ
Duration: Contract
Job Description ::
• 8 years of industry experience in platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering
• 5 years of 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 proficiency in Go (Golang), including concurrency patterns and distributed systems design
• Deep experience with Kubernetes (EKS and/or on-prem):
• Helm, HPA, PodDisruptionBudgets, NetworkPolicy, namespace isolation
• GitOps workflows (ArgoCD)
• Strong understanding of authentication & security protocols:
• OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE
• mTLS, DPoP, session management patterns
• Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego policy development
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling:
• OpenTelemetry (traces, metrics, logs)
• Dynatrace and Splunk SIEM
• Experience with data and messaging systems:
• PostgreSQL (HA, pooling, PITR)
• Kafka (MSK, Schema Registry, DLQ patterns)
• Familiarity with:
• CDN/WAF platforms (Akamai, Cloudflare)
• DNS routing (GeoDNS, GTM, health checks)
• TLS lifecycle management (cert-manager, KMS/HSM)
• Strong foundation in networking (L3–L7), distributed systems, and algorithms
• Proven experience building high-throughput, low-latency, resilient systems