GitOps Engineer / Full Stack Engineer

Role: Full-Stack / GitOps Engineer

Location: Glasgow, UK - Onsite (5 days a week in office)

Type: Contract

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Frontend engineering: Advanced proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript, with strong hands-on experience building applications in React.js and Next.js.
• Backend engineering: Proficiency in one or more backend languages Python, Golang, or Java.
• Schema-driven experiences: Experience building dynamic, schema-driven UIs and services from structured contracts such as the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) or JSON Schema.
• API gateway configuration: Professional experience configuring API gateways - Kong, Envoy, Akamai/CloudFront including routes, services, upstreams, and plugins.
• GitOps model: Hands-on experience with GitOps-based delivery - author intent → PR → validate → merge → reconcile — with automated rollback on failure.
• CLI & code-editor tooling: Comfort with CLI-driven and code-editor–based workflows for gateway onboarding - authoring, validating, and committing configuration directly as code.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Kong: Deep, hands-on experience with Kong API Gateway (plugins, consumers, upstreams, schema validation).
• Envoy: Hands-on experience with Envoy Proxy or Envoy Gateway (routes, filters, and configuration).
• Akamai / CloudFront: Familiarity with edge configuration (CDN, WAF, GTM, certificates, property versioning/activation).
• Config reconciliation & drift: Experience building drift detection and desired-state reconciliation between Git and live systems.