Senior DevOps Engineer

Arbor Education

. Work with the Head of Platform and Head of SRE to identify platform infrastructure improvements and implement plans .

Posted 10/17/2026full-timeRemote • United KingdomSenior💰 £70,000 - £80,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in DevOps Engineering, focusing on large-scale platform operations and infrastructure improvements. Proficient in Infrastructure as Code, cloud systems, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines to support rapid business scaling.

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DevOps EngineeringAmazon Web ServicesInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD PipelinesDistributed Cloud Systems

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Hard Skills

TerraformAnsibleCloudFormationRelational Database TechnologiesAWS AuroraNginxDataDogPrometheusDockerContainerization

Soft Skills

Problem SolvingTeam PlayerGood Written and Spoken English

Tools & Technologies

CI/CD ToolsMonitoring ToolsCloud Platforms

Industry Keywords

High AvailabilityDisaster Recovery PlansMessaging WorkloadsAgile DevelopmentKanbanSoftware Best Practices

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSCloudDockerNGINXPrometheusTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work with the Head of Platform and Head of SRE to identify platform infrastructure improvements and implement plans
Improve the maturity of platform components, including High Availability, testing and disaster recovery plans
Improve CI/CD pipelines and provide deployment patterns
Assist with incident response and resolution, post-mortems and retrospectives
Participate in tech talks and team-based learning
Maintain comprehensive Playbooks, Runbooks and systems documentation for knowledge transfer
Improve the resilience and performance of the Arbor platform to enable rapid business scaling
Continuously improve architecture, infrastructure and ways of working using a metrics-driven approach
Collaborate closely with the solution architect and engineering teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive experience of DevOps Engineering and operating a large-scale platform
Extensive experience of distributed cloud systems, specifically Amazon Web Services
Extensive experience of Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform, Ansible and CloudFormation
Understanding of relational database technologies and cloud versions such as AWS Aurora
Experience with messaging and distributed asynchronous workloads
Experience with nginx or similar technologies
Experience with DataDog, Prometheus or similar tools
Positive and proactive approach to problem solving
Team player willing to help others when needed and actively participate in discussions
Good written and spoken English
Bonus: past experience with enterprise solutions running at scale
Bonus: familiarity with Kanban and agile development processes
Bonus: experience with Docker and containerisation
Bonus: familiarity with software best practices such as Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain-Driven Design and Test-Driven Development

Benefits

Comp & perks

A dedicated wellbeing team offering mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and more
32 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, including 25 days annual leave and 7 extra company-wide days
Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
Comprehensive AIG Smart Health wellness benefit with 24/7 virtual GP, 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
Enhanced paternity leave: 6 weeks full pay
5 free return-to-work maternity coaching sessions
Access to Calm and Bippit financial wellbeing coaching
Flexible working
Social committees and team, office and company-wide events
Dedicated professional development training budget, including CPD courses, upskilling resources and professional memberships
One paid volunteer day each year
Dog-friendly offices