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# Remote Senior DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Arbor Education
- **Location:** Warrington, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £70,000.0 - £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Relational Databases, DevOps, Nginx, Ansible, Prometheus, Runbook, Software Engineering, Datadog, Test-Driven Development (TDD), System Availability, Cloudformation, Containerization, AWS Aurora, Terraform, Domain Driven Design, Code Restructuring, Docker
- **Published:** June 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/remote-senior-devops-engineer-warrington-cheshire/2844996613-2/

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Engineering team and help us improve the resilience and performance of the Arbor platform, enabling the business to rapidly scale. The remit and focus of the role is to continuously fix and improve our architecture, infrastructure, and ways of working. This requires an obsessive, metrics-driven approach, a curiosity about system behaviour, and close collaboration with the solution architect and engineering teams. It's a broad and exciting role, so we're looking for someone up for a challenge - if you're a collaborative and curious Engineer, this is the role for you.

Core responsibilities

 * 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


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