Cloud Platform Engineer – Site Reliability, Observability

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £60k - £72k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Arden University Students' Association

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1 - 10 employees

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Non-profit

Arden University Students' Association is an organization created to enhance the student experience at Arden University by advocating for the interests and needs of all students engaged in distance and blended learning. The association collaborates with university staff to provide support, guidance, and opportunities, ensuring students thrive during their academic journey.

📋 Description

• Build and operate cloud platforms underpinning Arden University's digital services • Deliver secure, scalable and cost-effective infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure • Strengthen automation and improve tools enabling engineering teams to deliver reliable services • Embed Site Reliability Engineering practices across the Cloud Platform team • Develop monitoring, alerting, service-health reporting and observability capabilities • Improve incident response and validate recovery processes • Automate repetitive operational tasks • Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis and implement preventative measures or automated remediation • Develop operational runbooks and support service management processes • Work with cloud engineering, security, service management and application teams • Build a culture of reliability, continuous improvement and shared ownership • Support Arden University's continued digital transformation

🎯 Requirements

• Substantial experience building, supporting and improving production cloud infrastructure and platform services across AWS, Google Cloud or Azure • Practical experience operating Kubernetes or equivalent container platforms, including deployments, networking, storage, workload health and troubleshooting • Strong skills in Terraform, reusable Infrastructure as Code modules, Git and CI/CD pipelines • Experience delivering controlled, versioned and peer-reviewed infrastructure changes • Proficiency in Bash or Python automation • Practical knowledge of Linux, IP networking, DNS, identity and access management, secrets management and least-privilege security • Experience implementing observability through metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, actionable alerting and service-health reporting • Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering practices, including SLIs/SLOs, availability, capacity planning and reducing recurring failures • Experience investigating production incidents, conducting root-cause analysis and implementing preventative measures or automated remediation • Experience with backup and restore, disaster recovery and resilience testing • Experience developing operational runbooks and following established service management and support processes • Relevant certifications in AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes or SRE are desirable • Experience operating across multiple cloud providers is desirable • Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki or equivalent technologies is desirable • Knowledge of error budgets, incident reviews, operational readiness and reducing repetitive operational work is desirable • Experience with Kubernetes upgrades, scaling, node health, storage management and disaster recovery is desirable • Understanding of cloud cost optimisation is desirable • Experience with cloud landing zones, project onboarding, platform handover, developer self-service or policy-as-code is desirable • Exposure to production data, integration, generative AI or Agentic AI platforms is desirable • Must be able to work in the UK; Arden cannot sponsor skilled worker visas for this role

🏖️ Benefits

• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays • Christmas closure • Aviva pension plan with company contributions starting from 7% • BUPA Cash Plan • Private Medical Insurance coverage for certain job roles • Access to Perkbox benefits • Free study on any Arden course • Discount for family and friends on Arden courses • Golden Ticket allowing you to gift someone a free Arden education • Remote working arrangement with little to no travel into the Coventry head office or campuses • Employee development and progression opportunities