At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead DevOps initiatives, design AWS infrastructure, and own CI/CD pipelines.
- Company: Global luxury asset insurer with a focus on innovation and premium experiences.
- Benefits: Flexible working with 3 days in the office, competitive salary, and growth opportunities.
- Other info: Exciting opportunity for technical autonomy and career advancement.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and shape the future of tech in a rapidly expanding company.
- Qualifications: Strong AWS and CI/CD experience; DevOps as your primary discipline.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: Cardiff Bay (excellent public transport links)
Working pattern: 3 days in the office + 2 days working from home
A global luxury asset insurer is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer into a 3-person Cardiff team. The company is expanding and this is an exciting time for the business. This role is the DevOps lead role so you'll own the infrastructure and CI/CD function end to end.
You're insuring some of the world's most valuable and interesting assets, for a client base that expects a premium experience to match. The second draw is technical autonomy. The platform was originally built by a third-party agency, and while it works, the internal team had limited input into the architecture. They’re not married to any of it. If you think a different deployment pattern, a different load balancer setup, or moving compute to ECS Express makes more sense, you make the case and you build it. It’s a genuine open playground for someone with strong AWS DevOps experience and instincts.
The stack:
- Laravel PHP back end, Vue.js front end
- CI/CD via Bitbucket and GitHub, deploying containerised applications
- Member-facing dashboard (also used internally)
Two priorities for this hire:
- Scale. Members log in roughly every 11 weeks for a specific event, concentrating significant traffic into a short window. A proper load balancing and CloudFront strategy needs designing.
- International expansion. New markets bring latency, data protection and regional compliance considerations into the architecture.
Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain the AWS infrastructure
- Own the CI/CD pipelines
- Improve reliability, scalability and monitoring
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code best practice
- Knowledge transfer to the wider dev team
Experience needed:
- DevOps as your primary discipline
- Strong AWS and CI/CD background
- Full-stack awareness (Laravel/Vue useful but not essential)
- Confident articulating technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders
Send a CV or message me directly to discuss.
Senior DevOps / Software Engineer (PHP) in Cardiff employer: Sadler Recruitment
Join a dynamic global luxury asset insurer in Cardiff Bay, where you'll enjoy a flexible working pattern of 3 days in the office and 2 days from home. With a strong focus on employee growth and technical autonomy, this role offers you the chance to lead DevOps initiatives in an innovative environment, ensuring that your contributions directly impact the architecture and scalability of our platform. Experience a collaborative work culture that values your expertise and encourages you to explore new solutions while insuring some of the world's most valuable assets.
