DevOps Engineer

Cardiff | £50,000 - £60,000 | Hybrid (2/3 days onsite)

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.

• 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

• 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)

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

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!