Platform Engineer

SmartChoice International Limited • glasgow, scotland • Posted June 15, 2026

About the Role

Urgent Hiring: Platform Engineer – Glasgow (Contract)

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Location: Glasgow (5 days onsite)

Contract Type: Inside IR35

No. of Openings: 8

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate Envoy and Kong API gateway infrastructure serving production traffic
  • Implement OPA policies (Rego) for gateway-level authorization
  • Manage GitOps deployments via ArgoCD and Helm in multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
  • Build and enhance OpenTelemetry pipelines (Dynatrace, Splunk SIEM)
  • Automate WAF/CDN configurations (Akamai, Cloudflare) using WAF-as-code approaches
  • Collaborate with teams to onboard and migrate traffic from legacy systems
  • Support incident response, production readiness, and operational excellence
  • Promote best practices in engineering, testing, a...