DevOps Engineer
📍 Cardiff | 💰 £50,000 - £60,000 | 🏢 Hybrid (2/3 days onsite)
The Opportunity
We're supporting a fast-scaling SaaS organisation looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to play a critical role in deploying, monitoring, and operating production systems serving tens of thousands of users.
This is a high-impact position, directly influencing customer experience, system reliability, and overall company growth.
You'll work within an agile engineering function using modern tooling including AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and Ansible.
What You'll Be Doing
Providing technical thought leadership across Engineering & Architecture
Designing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code across dev & prod
Building robust observability and monitoring frameworks
Supporting uptime/SLAs
Designing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters (advanced configuration)
Designing and maintaining Kafka clusters (including DR & scaling strategy)
Building and optimising CI/CD pipelines
Identifying infrastructure vulnerabilities and improving resilience
What We're Looking For
3+ years DevOps experience in a SaaS environment
Strong AWS expertise
Advanced Kubernetes administration
Advanced Kafka administration (DR, topic scaling, performance tuning)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform essential)
Config management (Ansible, Chef or Puppet)
CI/CD tooling (Git, Jenkins or GitHub Actions)
Distributed systems knowledge
Strong networking knowledge (TCP/UDP, SSL, firewalls)
Security-first mindset
Prior development experience (ideal)
What's On Offer
Hybrid working (2/3 days onsite)
Benefits Include:
Enhanced parental leave
Generous annual leave
Healthcare plan
Cycle-to-work scheme
Pension with employer contribution
Life assurance (3x salary)
Rewards & discounts programme
LinkedIn Learning licence
Ready to Apply?
Contact Lewis Allen or apply to find out more.
Please apply with a CV and a cover letter outlining why you're perfect for the role.
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