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  • Location:

    Cardiff

  • Sector:

    Technology & Digital

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    £50000 - £60000.00 per annum

  • Contact:

    Lewis Allen

  • Email:

    Lewis.Allen@yolkrecruitment.com

  • Job ref:

    BBBH41132

  • Published:

    about 6 hours ago

  • Expiry date:

    26 April 2026

  • Start date:

    ASAP

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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