Senior DevOps Engineer

November 27

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Arbor Education

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Education • B2B • Software

Arbor Education is a rapidly expanding company dedicated to transforming the way schools operate by freeing staff from administrative tasks and enhancing collaboration. Utilizing a Management Information System (MIS), Arbor Education provides tools to improve school processes and educational outcomes for over 5,000 schools. Their mission-driven team, consisting of ex-teachers, education technology engineers, and specialists, is passionate about providing effective solutions to improve the educational sector. Founded in 2011, Arbor Education is driven by a commitment to innovation and the well-being of teachers and students, along with a dedication to diversity and inclusion in its workforce.

51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-12

📋 Description

• 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 deployment • Assist in incident response and resolution, and subsequent post-mortems and retrospectives • Participate in tech-talks and team based learning to ensure knowledge is spread • Document obsessively, relying on Playbooks/Runbooks and systems documentation to aid knowledge transfer

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • A 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 discussions • Good written and spoken English so you can present your ideas • Bonus skills • 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 & Christmas • Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary • Comprehensive 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 Widows • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay • 5 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 you • Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success • Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc) • Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year • Dog friendly offices!