Arbor Education

SeniorDevOpsEngineer

£70–80k Malaysia FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Senior DevOps Engineer at Arbor Education. Skills: DevOps Engineering, cloud systems, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, platform architecture. identify improvements within the platform infrastructure and implement plans to address. improve the maturity of all components within the system”

What You'll Achieve.

improve the resilience and performance of the Arbor platform; enabling the business to rapidly scale; continuously fix and improve our architecture, infrastructure, and ways of working

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

A positive and proactive attitude to problem solving; curiosity about system behaviour

Eligibility Requirements

unable to provide visa sponsorship

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

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, Good written and spoken English

Nice to Have

Past experience with enterprise solutions running at scale, Familiarity with kanban and agile development processes, Experience with Docker and containerisation, Familiarity with software best practices such as Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development, etc.

What You'll Do.

identify improvements within the platform infrastructure and implement plans to address

improve the maturity of all components within the system

ensuring High Availability

ensuring adequate testing and DR plans

Contribute to improving our CI/CD pipelines

providing patterns of deployment

Assist in incident response and resolution

subsequent post-mortems and retrospectives

Participate in tech-talks and team based learning

relying on Playbooks/Runbooks and systems documentation to aid knowledge transfer

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

close collaboration with the solution architect and engineering teams; Work with Head of Platform and Head of SRE; Work with the Platform teams; team based learning; A team player, willing to muck in and help others when needed; actively participates in discussions

Communication Scope

Good written and spoken English so you can present your ideas

Full Job Description

**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 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 de

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