Full-Stack GitOps Engineer

Full-Stack GitOps Engineer

Location: Glasgow - 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

• Deep hands-on experience with Kong API Gateway

• Experience with Envoy Proxy or Envoy Gateway

• 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 Glasgow. Banking/financial services experience is essential.

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