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)
o OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE
o mTLS, DPoP, session management patterns
o OpenTelemetry (traces, metrics, logs)
o Dynatrace and Splunk SIEM
o PostgreSQL (HA, pooling, PITR)
o Kafka (MSK, Schema Registry, DLQ patterns)
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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