What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Platform Engineer || New Jersey || Contract position at IT First Source?
Senior Platform Engineer || New Jersey || Contract
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
Thanks,
IT First Source