DevOps Engineer

Cardiff
1 week ago
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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.
Know someone great for the job? We offer a referral scheme-just get in touch!
Note: We do our best to respond to every application, but due to volume, we can't always guarantee it. If you haven't heard back within 7 days, unfortunately, you haven't been successful this time. Keep an eye on our site for new opportunities

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