Platform Engineer
Pracyva ltd • Glasgow, City of Glasgow • Posted July 17, 2026
Position Overview
Role: Platform Engineer, Location: Glasgow (Onsite all 5 days)
Role Type : Contract (Inside IR35)
Required Skills:
* 5+ years 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 Go development skills - control-plane services, gRPC APIs, Kubernetes controllers (client-go), concurrency patterns
* Production Kubernetes experience (EKS and/or on-prem clusters) - Helm charts, HPA, PodDisruptionBudgets, NetworkPolicy, namespace isolation, ArgoCD GitOps
* Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0 / OIDC / PKCE flows, DPoP sender-constrained tokens, mTLS, and session management patterns
* Experience with OPA (Open Policy Agent) policy authoring in Rego and sidecar deployment patterns
* Hands-on with OpenTelemetry (traces, metrics, logs), Dynatrace, and Splunk SIEM integration
* Working knowledge of CDN/WAF platforms (Ak...
Role Type : Contract (Inside IR35)
Required Skills:
* 5+ years 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 Go development skills - control-plane services, gRPC APIs, Kubernetes controllers (client-go), concurrency patterns
* Production Kubernetes experience (EKS and/or on-prem clusters) - Helm charts, HPA, PodDisruptionBudgets, NetworkPolicy, namespace isolation, ArgoCD GitOps
* Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0 / OIDC / PKCE flows, DPoP sender-constrained tokens, mTLS, and session management patterns
* Experience with OPA (Open Policy Agent) policy authoring in Rego and sidecar deployment patterns
* Hands-on with OpenTelemetry (traces, metrics, logs), Dynatrace, and Splunk SIEM integration
* Working knowledge of CDN/WAF platforms (Ak...