Senior Platform Engineer

Hello,
 Greetings from Galent, 
This is Dinesh R and I'm a Recruitment executive with Galent, 
We are one of the premier Talent Solutions partners with global fortune brands, helping them find the right talent for their teams working on next generation technology innovations.
 
 If you are interested, please share me with your updated resume, 
 
Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer 
Type: Contract 
Location: Jersey City, NJ (Onsite) 
 Job Details 
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:

o Envoy Proxy (xDS/ADS, ext_authz, HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSocket) and/or

o 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):

o Helm, HPA, PodDisruptionBudgets, NetworkPolicy, namespace isolation

o GitOps workflows (ArgoCD)

• Strong understanding of authentication & security protocols:

o OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE

o mTLS, DPoP, session management patterns

• Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego policy development

• Hands-on experience with observability tooling:

o OpenTelemetry (traces, metrics, logs)

o Dynatrace and Splunk SIEM

• Experience with data and messaging systems:

o PostgreSQL (HA, pooling, PITR)

o Kafka (MSK, Schema Registry, DLQ patterns)

• Familiarity with:

o CDN/WAF platforms (Akamai, Cloudflare)

o DNS routing (GeoDNS, GTM, health checks)

o 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)

 
 Thanks & Regards, 
Dinesh R      
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist- Recruitment 
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