What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer position at Delta System & Software, Inc.?
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Envoy and Kong gateway infrastructure supporting production traffic across multiple lines of business
- Develop Go-based control plane services, including ingress registry, xDS controllers, session management, and context propagation
- Implement and maintain OPA (Open Policy Agent) policies for gateway-level authorization
- Build and extend OpenTelemetry pipelines (OTel Collector, Dynatrace, Splunk SIEM integration)
- Manage GitOps-based deployments using ArgoCD and Helm across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
- Automate WAF rule management across CDN platforms (Akamai, Cloudflare) using infrastructure-as-code approaches
- Contribute to internal platform tooling and dashboards (TypeScript/React) for route management and observability
- Partner with application teams to onboard services and migrate legacy ingress traffic
- Participate in incident response, runbook development, and production readiness reviews
- Promote engineering best practices including testing, code reviews, and observability-first design
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with TypeScript/React for internal tooling or dashboards
- Strong background in AWS services (EKS, MSK, Lambda, Direct Connect, Network Firewall)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines, GitOps workflows)
- Experience with Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol (CAEP) or similar session revocation systems
- Background in identity platforms (ForgeRock, SAML, token exchange patterns)