Arbor

Arbor

Arbor is the leading cloud MIS provider in the UK, empowering schools and MATs to collaborate effectively, save time, and enhance pupil achievement through centralized data management and insightful analytics.

IT Services
51-250

Description

  • Contribute to system architecture and design decisions, balancing scalability, maintainability, security, and delivery speed.
  • Own services from design through production, ensuring observability and compliance with service-level objectives.
  • Improve infrastructure and operational automation to reduce toil and increase engineering velocity.
  • Write tested, reusable code, uphold technical standards, and ensure services meet production-readiness requirements.
  • Estimate technical work, support release planning, deliver iteratively, and participate in post-release reviews.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident investigations, contribute to post-mortems, and implement follow-up improvements.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to align technical delivery with product strategy and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

  • Considerable professional experience in platform engineering on complex, scalable systems.
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS and distributed cloud architectures.
  • Experience operating production platforms handling at least 6,000 requests per second and using enterprise deployment approaches such as blue-green deployments.
  • Proficiency with Terraform and configuration management tools.
  • Strong Python, Go, or similar scripting experience for automation and tooling.
  • Significant experience with Java, C++, C#, PHP, or another language, preferably in a large object-oriented codebase.
  • Experience with observability tools such as Datadog or Prometheus and incident/problem management practices.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and resilience patterns.
  • Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience mentoring engineers; experience with agentic AI, chaos engineering, security compliance, open source, or ECS at scale is preferred.

Benefits

  • £80,000–£90,000 salary.
  • Remote UK role with flexible working arrangements.
  • 32 days of holiday plus bank holidays and additional company-wide days.
  • Life assurance at three times annual salary, private dental insurance, pension, and enhanced parental leave.
  • Wellbeing benefits including a virtual GP, mental health support, counselling, health checks, Calm, and financial coaching.
  • Dedicated professional development budget and one paid volunteering day each year.
  • Wellbeing team, social committees, charity initiatives, and dog-friendly offices.

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