DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer | £45,000 - £55,000 | Cardiff (1 day per month in office)

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.).