DevOps Engineer

Digital Waffle; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing technology-led SaaS business in the United Kingdom is seeking a DevOps Engineer with Security Ownership to help scale and secure their modern cloud platform. This hands-on role involves owning the cloud infrastructure, improving reliability, and embedding security best practices. You will design, deploy, and secure cloud environments, working closely with engineering teams to ensure smooth releases. The position offers a salary up to £80,000 and hybrid working conditions.

Benefits

Collaborative engineering culture

High ownership over technical decisions

Opportunity to work on a scaling SaaS platform

Qualifications

• Strong experience in a senior DevOps or platform engineering role.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS and cloud‑native architectures.
• Proven experience taking ownership of security in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Owning cloud infrastructure across AWS and modern containerised environments.
• Designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Leading on cloud security, monitoring, incident response and vulnerability management.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Containerisation

Infrastructure as Code

Security Best Practices

Monitoring

Tools

Terraform

Job description

A fast-growing, technology-led SaaS business is looking for a DevOps Engineer with Security Ownership to help scale and secure a modern cloud platform. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys owning infrastructure, improving reliability, and embedding security best practices into everything they build.

You will work closely with engineering teams to design, deploy and secure cloud environments, while taking clear ownership of DevOps and security foundations as the business continues to grow.

Role

DevOps Engineer (Security Focus)

Salary

Up to £80,000

Location

Nottingham - Hybrid, 2 to 3 days per week in the office

What you will be doing

• Owning cloud infrastructure across AWS and modern containerised environments
• Designing, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Embedding security best practices across infrastructure, deployments and access controls
• Leading on cloud security, monitoring, incident response and vulnerability management
• Improving system reliability, scalability and performance
• Working closely with software engineers to support smooth releases and deployments
• Automating infrastructure using infrastructure as code tools
• Helping shape DevOps and security standards as the platform scales

What you will need

• Strong experience in a senior DevOps or platform engineering role
• Hands‑on experience with AWS and cloud‑native architectures
• Solid background in CI/CD, containerisation and automation
• Proven experience taking ownership of security in production environments
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or similar
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging and incident management
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced SaaS or digital product environment

What’s on offer

• Salary up to £80,000 depending on experience
• Hybrid working, 2 to 3 days per week onsite
• High ownership role with real influence over infrastructure and security decisions
• Opportunity to work on a modern, scaling SaaS platform
• Collaborative engineering culture with a strong focus on quality and best practice

If you are a DevOps engineer who enjoys building secure, scalable platforms and wants ownership over both infrastructure and security, this role offers a strong technical challenge and long-term impact.