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Infrastructure Engineer

Yolk Recruitment
Penarth, South Glamorgan, United Kingdom
Last week
£40,000 – £46,000 pa

Salary

£40,000 – £46,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
18 May 2026 (Last week)

Benefits

22 days annual leave plus bank holidays Additional birthday day off Company share scheme after 6 months Private medical insurance Access to the company profit share scheme following 6 months of service
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Infrastructure Engineer (AWS & Cloud Operations)

Location: Cardiff

Working Pattern: Hybrid (office-based initially, then 3 days onsite / 2 remote)

Salary: £40,000 - £46,000

We're working with a growing SaaS business looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to take ownership of a well-established AWS environment supporting a live customer platform used globally.

This role is focused on maintaining, supporting and improving an existing cloud estate rather than rebuilding it from scratch. The business is looking for someone with strong AWS experience who enjoys working across infrastructure, monitoring, security and platform reliability in a practical, hands-on environment.

You'll work closely with leadership and the wider engineering team, gradually taking greater ownership of the infrastructure function over time.

What We're Looking For

Required Experience:

Commercial experience managing AWS environments in production

Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure and cloud operations (EC2, RDS, Route53 & CloudWatch)

Experience with infrastructure monitoring and alerting

Understanding of WAF, security tooling and cyber security best practices

Experience managing DNS and Cloudflare environments

Windows Server and/or Linux administration experience

Experience supporting backups, resilience and disaster recovery processesNice to Have

Exposure to Infrastructure as Code or automation tooling

Experience improving observability or monitoring processes

Understanding of Cyber Essentials or security frameworks

Experience working in smaller teams with broad infrastructure ownershipWhat's On Offer

Hybrid working model

22 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Additional birthday day off

Company share scheme after 6 months

Genuine ownership and autonomy within the infrastructure function

Opportunity to influence and improve a live SaaS platform used at scale

Supportive, collaborative team environment without excessive bureaucracyWhat we offer:

22 days annual leave plus public holidays.

Additional day off for your birthday.

Private medical insurance.

Salary: £40,000 - £46,000 depending on experience.

Access to the company profit share scheme following 6 months of service.Interested?

If you're excited by the idea of taking real ownership of an established Infrastructure estate, please get in touch. We also offer a referral scheme for any candidates who are successfully placed.

For more information, contact Dan Newton at Yolk Recruitment

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