Senior Platform Engineer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £80k - £90k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Arbor Education

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-12

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.

📋 Description

• Contribute to system design and architecture decisions, balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and security • Own services from design through production, ensuring observability and compliance with agreed Service Level Objectives • Deliver improvements in platform reliability, performance, and efficiency • Improve infrastructure and operations automation to reduce toil and increase team velocity • Apply coding standards and write well-tested, reusable code • Engage with the architecture community and share best practices • Enable AI agents to act as force multipliers within the codebase • Ensure services meet production-readiness standards • Provide technical estimates and feasibility input • Deliver work iteratively, contribute to release planning, and participate in post-release reviews • Raise dependencies within planned work • Support and mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and constructive feedback • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response • Lead investigations, contribute to post-mortems, and drive follow-up improvements • Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, the Tech Lead, and other engineers • Align technical delivery with product strategy and communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Considerable professional experience in Platform Engineering on complex, scalable systems • Strong hands-on expertise with AWS and distributed cloud architectures • Experience operating production platforms serving at least 6,000 requests per second • Deep understanding of enterprise deployment and maintenance processes, such as blue-green deployments • Proficiency with Terraform and configuration management tools • Strong skills in Python, Go, or a similar language for automation and tooling • Significant experience with Java, C++/#, PHP, or another language, preferably in a sizable object-oriented codebase • Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as DataDog or Prometheus • Experience with incident and problem management practices • Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and resilience patterns • Hands-on experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and ECS • Practical experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments • Experience supporting and mentoring engineers through code review, pairing, and feedback • Experience using agentic AI, or interest in increasing productivity with new tooling including agentic AI • Bonus: experience with chaos engineering and reliability testing • Bonus: knowledge of security best practices and compliance frameworks • Bonus: contributions to open-source projects or the software community • Bonus: experience running ECS at scale • Bonus: experience working with agentic and generative AI to increase productivity

🏖️ Benefits

• A dedicated wellbeing team championing mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and more • 32 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, including 25 days annual leave and 7 extra company-wide days • Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary • Comprehensive wellness benefit via AIG Smart Health, including 24/7 virtual GP, 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 • Enhanced paternity leave: 6 weeks full pay • 5 free return-to-work maternity coaching sessions • Access to Calm and Bippit financial wellbeing coaching • Flexible working • Social committees and team, office, and company-wide events • Dedicated professional development training budget, including CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships • One paid volunteer day each year • Dog-friendly offices