Senior DevOps Engineer

hackajob is collaborating with Arbor Education to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Location: Remote Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 About Us At Arbor, we’re on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better. We believe in a future of work in schools where being challenged doesn’t mean being burnt out and overworked. Where data guides progress without overwhelming staff. And where everyone working in a school is reminded why they got into education every day. Our MIS and school management tools are already making a difference in over 7,000 schools and trusts. Giving time and power back to staff, turning data into clear, actionable insights, and supporting happier working days. At the heart of our brand is a recognition that the challenges schools face today aren’t just about efficiency, outputs and productivity - but about creating happier working lives for the people who drive education everyday: the staff. We want to make schools more joyful places to work, as well as learn. About The Role We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Engineering team and help us improve the resilience and performance of the Arbor platform, enabling the business to rapidly scale. The remit and focus of the role is to continuously fix and improve our architecture, infrastructure, and ways of working. This requires an obsessive, metrics-driven approach, a curiosity about system behaviour, and close collaboration with the solution architect and engineering teams. It’s a broad and exciting role, so we’re looking for someone up for a challenge - if you’re a collaborative and curious Engineer, this is the role for you. Core Responsibilities Work with Head of Platform and Head of SRE to identify improvements within the platform infrastructure and implement plans to addressWork with the Platform teams to improve the maturity of all components within the system, including ensuring High Availability, and adequate testing and DR plansContribute to improving our CI/CD pipelines and providing patterns of deploymentAssist in incident response and resolution, and subsequent post-mortems and retrospectivesParticipate in tech-talks and team based learning to ensure knowledge is spreadDocument obsessively, relying on Playbooks/Runbooks and systems documentation to aid knowledge transfer Requirements About you Extensive experience of DevOps Engineering and operating a large scale platformExtensive experience of distributed cloud systems, and specifically Amazon Web ServicesExtensive experience of Infrastructure as Code tooling, such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloudformation etcUnderstanding of relational database technologies and their cloud versions (e.g. AWS Aurora)Experience with messaging and distributed asynchronous workloadsExperience with nginx or similar technologiesExperience with DataDog, Prometheus or similar toolsA 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 discussionsGood written and spoken English so you can present your ideas Bonus Skills Past experience with enterprise solutions running at scaleFamiliarity with kanban and agile development processesExperience with Docker and containerisationFamiliarity with software best practices such as Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development, etc. Benefits What we offer Role The chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you’ll see the impact of your work everyday. We also offer: 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 & ChristmasLife Assurance paid out at 3x annual salaryComprehensive 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 WidowsEnhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay5 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 youSocial committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate successDedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each yearDog friendly offices! Interview process Phone screen1st stage2nd stage We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application or interview process, please reach out to a member of the team at careers@arbor-education.com. Our commitment is also backed by our partnership with Neurodiversity Consultancy, Lexxic who provide us with training, support and advice. Arbor Education is an equal opportunities organisation Our goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, and which gives them the tools they need to thrive - whatever their ambitions may be so we support and promote diversity and equality, and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Refer a friend Know someone else who would be good for this role? You can refer a friend, family member or colleague, if they are offered a role with Arbor, we will say thank you with a voucher valued up to £200! Simply email: careers@arbor-education.com Please note: We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.