Full-Stack Gitops Engineer

Full-Stack GitOps Engineer

Must have strong experience in Kong and Envoy within a banking environment.

Location: Glasgow or London - 5 days per week onsite
Contract: 6 months
Rate: £425 per day
IR35: Inside IR35

We are recruiting for a talented Full-Stack/GitOps Engineer to join a major banking programme based in Glasgow.

This role requires a hands-on engineer with strong full-stack development experience, modern Front End and Back End technologies, API gateway configuration and GitOps-based delivery.

Banking or financial services experience is essential.

Key Skills & Experience Required

• Strong TypeScript and JavaScript development experience
• Hands-on experience building applications using React.js and Next.js
• Backend development experience with Python, Golang or Java
• Experience building schema-driven UIs and services
• Strong understanding of OpenAPI Specification (OAS) and/or JSON Schema
• Professional experience configuring API gateways, including:
• Kong
• Envoy
• Akamai/CloudFront

Experience configuring routes, services, upstreams and plugins

Strong hands-on GitOps experience

Experience with code-based configuration workflows, including:

Authoring configuration

Pull requests

Validation

Merge and reconciliation

Automated rollback

Comfortable working with CLI and code-editor-based workflows

Desirable Skills

• Exposure to Akamai/CloudFront , including CDN, WAF and edge configuration
• Experience with drift detection and desired-state reconciliation

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a high-profile banking programme, helping to drive modern engineering practices and GitOps-based API gateway delivery.

Please note: This is a 5-day-per-week onsite role in London or Glasgow. Banking/financial services experience is essential.

Rate: £425/day Inside IR35 | 6-month contract

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