Senior Platform Engineer

Arbor Education

. Contribute to system design and architecture decisions, balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and security .

Posted 10/7/2026full-timeRemote • United KingdomSenior💰 £80,000 - £90,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Platform Engineering with a focus on scalable systems, cloud architectures, and automation. Proficient in coding standards, observability, and mentoring engineers while ensuring production-readiness and compliance.

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Platform EngineeringAWS Cloud ArchitecturePython AutomationTerraform ProficiencyContainerization with Docker

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Hard Skills

Platform EngineeringAWSPythonGoJavaC++TerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CD Pipelines

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationCommunication

Tools & Technologies

DataDogPrometheusECSConfiguration Management ToolsAgentic AI

Industry Keywords

Distributed SystemsMicroservicesObservabilityIncident ManagementSecurity Best Practices

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerJavaKubernetesMicroservicesPHPPrometheusPythonTerraformC++Go

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute to system design and architecture decisions, balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and security
Own services from design through production, ensuring observability and compliance with agreed Service Level Objectives
Deliver improvements in platform reliability, performance, and efficiency
Improve infrastructure and operations automation to reduce toil and increase team velocity
Apply coding standards and write well-tested, reusable code
Engage with the architecture community and share best practices
Enable AI agents to act as force multipliers within the codebase
Ensure services meet production-readiness standards
Provide technical estimates and feasibility input
Deliver work iteratively, contribute to release planning, and participate in post-release reviews
Raise dependencies within planned work
Support and mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and constructive feedback
Participate in on-call rotations and incident response
Lead investigations, contribute to post-mortems, and drive follow-up improvements
Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, the Tech Lead, and other engineers
Align technical delivery with product strategy and communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements

What you’ll need

Considerable professional experience in Platform Engineering on complex, scalable systems
Strong hands-on expertise with AWS and distributed cloud architectures
Experience operating production platforms serving at least 6,000 requests per second
Deep understanding of enterprise deployment and maintenance processes, such as blue-green deployments
Proficiency with Terraform and configuration management tools
Strong skills in Python, Go, or a similar language for automation and tooling
Significant experience with Java, C++/#, PHP, or another language, preferably in a sizable object-oriented codebase
Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as DataDog or Prometheus
Experience with incident and problem management practices
Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and resilience patterns
Hands-on experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and ECS
Practical experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments
Experience supporting and mentoring engineers through code review, pairing, and feedback
Experience using agentic AI, or interest in increasing productivity with new tooling including agentic AI
Bonus: experience with chaos engineering and reliability testing
Bonus: knowledge of security best practices and compliance frameworks
Bonus: contributions to open-source projects or the software community
Bonus: experience running ECS at scale
Bonus: experience working with agentic and generative AI to increase productivity

Benefits

Comp & perks

A dedicated wellbeing team championing 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 wellness benefit via AIG Smart Health, including 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