Senior DevOps Engineer

Arbor Education

Senior DevOps Engineer improving the resilience and performance of Arbor's platform. Collaborating closely with teams on architecture, infrastructure and development processes.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £70,000 - £80,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSCloudNGINXPrometheusTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work with Head of Platform and Head of SRE to identify improvements within the platform infrastructure and implement plans to address
Work with the Platform teams to improve the maturity of all components within the system, including ensuring High Availability, and adequate testing and DR plans
Contribute to improving our CI/CD pipelines and providing patterns of deployment
Assist in incident response and resolution, and subsequent post-mortems and retrospectives
Participate in tech-talks and team based learning to ensure knowledge is spread
Document obsessively, relying on Playbooks/Runbooks and systems documentation to aid knowledge transfer

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive experience of DevOps Engineering and operating a large scale platform
Extensive experience of distributed cloud systems, and specifically Amazon Web Services
Extensive experience of Infrastructure as Code tooling, such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloudformation etc
Understanding of relational database technologies and their cloud versions (e.g. AWS Aurora)
Experience with messaging and distributed asynchronous workloads
Experience with nginx or similar technologies
Experience with DataDog, Prometheus or similar tools
A positive and proactive attitude to problem solving
A team player, willing to muck in and help others when needed, driven personality who asks questions and actively participates in discussions
Good written and spoken English so you can present your ideas

Benefits

Comp & perks

A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks
Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
Dog friendly offices!

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Hard Skills & Tools

DevOps EngineeringInfrastructure as CodeTerraformAnsibleCloudformationdistributed cloud systemsrelational database technologiesAWS Auroramessaging workloadsnginx

Soft Skills

problem solvingteam playerproactive attitudecommunicationknowledge sharingparticipation in discussionsdocumentationcollaborationadaptabilitypositive attitude