DevOps EngineerCardiff | £50,000 - £60,000 | Hybrid (2/3 days onsite)The OpportunityWe''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 DoingProviding technical thought leadership across Engineering andamp; ArchitectureDesigning and maintaining Infrastructure as Code across dev andamp; prodBuilding robust observability and monitoring frameworksSupporting uptime/SLAs Designing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters (advanced configuration)Designing and maintaining Kafka clusters (including DR andamp; scaling strategy)Building and optimising CI/CD pipelinesIdentifying infrastructure vulnerabilities and improving resilienceWhat We''re Looking For3+ years DevOps experience in a SaaS environmentStrong AWS expertiseAdvanced Kubernetes administrationAdvanced 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 knowledgeStrong networking knowledge (TCP/UDP, SSL, Firewalls)Security-first mindsetPrior development experienc