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Full-Stack / GitOps Engineer
- glasgow, scotland, United Kingdom
- £60 - £90 Per Hour
Job Description
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 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.