Remote Senior DevOps Engineer

Salary: £42,000 - 79,000 per year

Requirements

• Extensive experience in DevOps engineering and operating a large-scale platform
• Extensive experience with distributed cloud systems, specifically Amazon Web Services
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code tools 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
• A positive and proactive approach to problem solving
• A collaborative team-player mindset, willing to support others when needed
• Strong written and spoken English communication skills
• Bonus: 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

Responsibilities

• Work with the Head of Platform and Head of SRE to identify infrastructure improvements and implement plans to address them
• Work with platform teams to improve the maturity of system components, including high availability, testing, and disaster recovery plans
• Contribute to improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment patterns
• Assist in incident response and resolution, including post-mortems and retrospectives
• Participate in tech talks and team-based learning to share knowledge
• Document thoroughly using playbooks, runbooks, and systems documentation to support knowledge transfer

Technologies

• AWS
• Ansible
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Datadog
• DevOps
• Docker
• Support
• Kanban
• Nginx
• Prometheus
• Terraform
• Web
• Architect

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We are Arbor, and we are on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better. Our MIS and school management tools support more than 7,000 schools and trusts, helping staff save time, turn data into clear insights, and build happier working days. We believe school work should be challenging without being burnt out, and we want to make schools more joyful places to work as well as learn. This Senior DevOps Engineer role is remote and offers a salary of £70,000 to £80,000. We offer a passionate team environment, strong wellbeing support, flexible working, a dedicated professional development budget, generous holiday, life assurance, private dental insurance, enhanced family leave, and other benefits. We are an equal opportunities organisation, committed to diversity, inclusion, and a fair recruitment process. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

last updated 28 week of 2026