DevOps Engineer

Alcumus Group; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative technology company in Cardiff is looking for a DevOps Engineer. You will deploy, monitor, and operate software across key production systems, impacting user experience and customer satisfaction. Ideal candidates will have expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and solid communication skills. The role offers a hybrid work environment, allowing flexibility with work from home options and strong benefits.

Benefits

Enhanced Parental Leave

Generous annual leave

Healthcare Plan

Annual Giving Day

Cycle-to-work Scheme

Pension scheme with employer contributions

Life Assurance – 3X base salary

Rewards Program

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant experience in DevOps within a SaaS environment.
• Experience with software configuration management tools.
• Prior professional application development experience in SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical thought leadership in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering.
• Design and implement infrastructure as code for both development and production environments.
• Maintain observability and monitoring solutions to ensure system performance.

Skills

Distributed systems expertise

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Automated deployment methodologies

Kubernetes administration

Kafka clusters configuration

Communication skills

Knowledge of IP networking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

DevOps Engineer

Department: Technology & Product

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Cardiff, UK

Reporting To: DevOps Manager

Description

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to be a key member of the software development team, working to deploy, monitor, and operate our software across key production systems that serve tens of thousands of customers. Your work will have a strong impact on user experience, customer satisfaction, and company growth. We work in an agile environment utilizing modern tools such as AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and Ansible. The ideal candidate will be experienced, organized, positive, driven, and a team player.

What that means day to day

• Provide technical thought leadership in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering
• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code for both development and production environments
• Design, implement and maintain observability and monitoring solutions and monitor the system health, taking action to maintain up-time and performance SLAs, including on-call rotation
• Design, implement, and maintain continuous delivery systems and advise development teams on code and implementation to increase application resiliency, operability, and best practices
• Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes clusters with advanced configuration and features
• Design, implement, and maintain Kafka clusters with advanced configuration and features
• Identify points of failure and recommend solutions in our infrastructure

What you’ll need to be successful

• Education level - Bachelor’s degree (B.A) preferable
• Years of Experience – 3+ relevant experience in Dev Ops in a SaaS environment
• Expertise in distributed systems including load balancing, distributed messaging, and distributed databases
• Expertise in software configuration management (SCM) and tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar
• Expertise in cloud platforms, primarily AWS
• Expertise in automated deployment methodologies that support CI/CD/CM using Git, Jenkins or GitHub Actions preferred
• Experience configuring and administering Kubernetes clusters using advanced features including non‑standard networking, storage classes/claims, namespacing, and multiple node groups
• Experience configuring and administering Kafka clusters including disaster recovery mechanisms, data loss prevention techniques, and determining topic configuration to right size for demanding and variable loads
• Experience with Windows and Linux systems and tools
• Prior professional application development experience with a particular focus on SaaS applications and web development
• Knowledge of IP networking, including TCP, UDP, firewalls, SSL
• Knowledge of software engineering and design principles such as design patterns, architectural patterns, CAP Theorem, event driven architecture, and similar
• Must be security‑minded at all levels
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills ability to approach problems in a structured way and find reliable solutions.

What you’ll get in return

Alcumus has a hybrid workplace policy, where you will work from the office 3 days per week. We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work and below are some of the perks and benefits we offer:

Personal Health & Wellbeing / Benefits

• 🍼 Enhanced Parental Leave
• 🌴Generous annual leave
• 🏥 Healthcare Plan
• 💟 Annual Giving Day – an extra day to give back to yourself or your community
• 🚲 Cycle‑to‑work Scheme

Future Planning

• 💰 Pension scheme with employer contributions
• 🧬 Life Assurance – 3X base salary
• 💸 Rewards Program – access to discounts and cashback
• 🏫 LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development

Interested but don’t feel you meet all the requirements? Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We believe in people having transferable and soft skills and want you to know that we do consider where an individual might not meet all the criteria, but have the aptitude and capability, nonetheless. Our priority is to ensure we set people up for success. We will make a final call based on our determining whether we can offer the necessary support to upskill or provide the developmental support needed for you to get the best out of this opportunity with us!

Bring Your Whole Self to Work.

Alcumus is proudly an equal‑opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves.

What you can expect if you apply:

• A response to your application within 15 working days
• An interview process consisting of:
  • An initial discovery call with the recruiter
  • A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
  • Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role

We’re keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know.