DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer | £50,000 - £55,000 | Cardiff / Remote

Role Overview

We're looking for a talented DevOps Engineer to join a growing technical team. You'll collaborate closely with software engineers, product owners, QA and infrastructure colleagues to build, release and deploy an end-to-end DevOps toolchain. You'll be instrumental in putting in place robust CI/CD processes across multiple product streams, ensuring seamless progression from development through to live production.

Key Responsibilities

• Work within the DevOps squad to design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines in line with our DevOps strategy.
• Collaborate with the Senior DevOps Lead and cross-functional teams to align solution design and delivery, adopting an agile mindset.
• Automate deployments and system provisioning using modern scripting and orchestration tools.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives and other agile ceremonies to support delivery goals.
• Identify project milestones and risks, contributing to estimation, prioritisation and risk-mitigation activities.
• Stay up to date with emerging DevOps tools and best practice, bringing fresh ideas to the team.
• Produce clear, detailed documentation (e.g. Confluence) and maintain issue tracking in tools such as Jira.
• Champion software quality, security and performance, and continuously hone your own skills.
• Undertake ad hoc duties as required.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Hands-on DevOps or software delivery background.
• Proven track record designing, building and operating CI/CD pipelines (ideally within Azure).
• Strong scripting/automation skills (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Solid grasp of software development practices-version control, testing and deployment.
• Experience containerising applications (Docker) and deploying to Kubernetes (Helm/helmfile).
• Familiar with integrating automated testing and security tooling into pipelines.
• Comfortable with Git-based source control platforms (GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.).
• Excellent communication, documentation and collaboration skills.
• Agile software delivery experience (Jira/Kanban, sprint ceremonies).

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Exposure to at least one high-level language or framework (e.g. React, Node.js, C#, .NET, Java, Ruby).
• Familiarity with other cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).
• Experience with BI/reporting tools (Power BI, Looker, Izenda, etc.).
• Building dashboards for Kubernetes health monitoring.
• Knowledge of authentication/authorisation tools (Keycloak, etc.).

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