Arbor Education
Arbor Education
Arbor Education develops education technology for schools, using a Management Information System (MIS) to simplify administrative work, improve collaboration, and support better school processes and educational outcomes. Founded in 2011, the company serves more than 5,000 schools through a team that includes former teachers, education technology engineers, and other education specialists. Its work focuses on practical innovation for the education sector, with attention to the experience of teachers and students and a stated commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Improve AWS infrastructure, platform resilience and CI/CD for Arbor Education’s school management platform. Help schools and trusts work more efficiently through reliable systems that support the platform at scale.

Description

  • Partner with platform and SRE leaders to identify infrastructure improvements and put plans into practice
  • Strengthen platform components through high availability, testing and disaster recovery improvements
  • Refine CI/CD pipelines and establish deployment patterns
  • Support incident response, resolution, post-incident reviews and retrospectives
  • Take part in technical talks and collaborative team learning
  • Keep playbooks, runbooks and systems documentation up to date to support knowledge sharing
  • Improve platform resilience and performance to support business growth
  • Use metrics to guide ongoing improvements to architecture, infrastructure and working practices
  • Work closely with the solution architect and engineering teams

Requirements

  • Extensive DevOps engineering experience operating a large-scale platform
  • Extensive experience with distributed cloud systems, particularly Amazon Web Services
  • Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation
  • Knowledge of relational databases and their cloud versions, such as AWS Aurora
  • Experience with messaging systems and distributed asynchronous workloads
  • Experience with NGINX or similar technologies
  • Experience with Datadog, Prometheus or similar monitoring tools
  • A positive, proactive approach to solving problems
  • A collaborative team approach, including helping colleagues and contributing to discussions
  • Good written and spoken English
  • Desirable: experience with enterprise solutions operating at scale
  • Desirable: familiarity with Kanban and agile development processes
  • Desirable: experience with Docker and containerisation
  • Desirable: familiarity with software practices such as refactoring, clean code, domain-driven design and test-driven development

Benefits

  • A dedicated wellbeing team offering mindfulness, lunch-and-learn sessions, manager training, mental health first aid training and more
  • 32 days of holiday plus bank holidays, including 25 days of annual leave and seven additional company-wide days
  • Life assurance worth three times annual salary
  • AIG Smart Health wellness benefit, including a 24/7 virtual GP, mental health support, counselling and personalised health checks
  • Private dental insurance through Bupa
  • Salary sacrifice pension through Scottish Widows
  • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave, with 20 weeks at full pay
  • Enhanced paternity leave, with six weeks at full pay
  • Five free maternity coaching sessions for returning to work
  • Access to Calm and Bippit financial wellbeing coaching
  • Flexible working
  • Social committees and team, office and company-wide events
  • A dedicated professional development budget for CPD courses, upskilling resources and professional memberships
  • One paid volunteering day each year
  • Dog-friendly offices

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