Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Work Model: 5 days onsite
Rate: £400–£430 per day (maximum)
Experience: 8+ years (mandatory)
Start: Immediate requirement
We are looking for an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer for an exciting opportunity with one of our clients in Glasgow. This is an immediate requirement and we are prioritising suitable profiles, so please apply as soon as possible.
Primary Requirement: Reverse Proxy Experience
- Hands-on production experience running L4/L7 reverse proxies, using any of NGINX, HAProxy, F5, Traefik or Envoy.
Without Reverse Proxy Experience, You Will Need
- Go (Golang): production experience.
- TLS/mTLS: a strong understanding of SNI, ALPN, client certificate validation and certificate lifecycle management.
Preferred Skills
- Authentication and authorisation: hands-on implementation or troubleshooting of JWT, OAuth2 and OIDC.
- Protobuf and gRPC: schema management and gRPC transport debugging.
- Policy management: OPA/Rego policy implementation, including Kubernetes admission control.
- Distributed storage: Redis and DynamoDB, including TTL, replication and failover consistency.
- Identity platforms: ForgeRock, Okta, Ping Identity or Auth0.
- Kafka and event streaming: event production and consumption, topics, consumers and event-driven services.
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry (OTel).
Mandatory Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant IT experience.
- A strong cloud infrastructure engineering background.
- Willingness to work 5 days a week onsite in Glasgow.