Location: Trivandrum

About us

At Arbor, we’re on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better. 

We believe in a future of work in schools where being challenged doesn’t mean being burnt out and overworked. Where data guides progress without overwhelming staff. And where everyone working in a school is reminded why they got into education every day. 

Our MIS and school management tools are already making a difference in over 7,000 schools and trusts. Giving time and power back to staff, turning data into clear, actionable insights, and supporting happier working days. 

At the heart of our brand is a recognition that the challenges schools face today aren’t just about efficiency, outputs and productivity - but about creating happier working lives for the people who drive education everyday: the staff. We want to make schools more joyful places to work, as well as learn. 

About the role

We are looking for an experienced and collaborative Lead DevOps Engineer (7 to 10 years) to join our DevOps team and help us build resilient, high performing, platforms. The remit and focus of the role is to champion automation and tooling, while working closely with our engineering teams to continuously improve our pipelines, infrastructure, and operational practices. It’s a broad and exciting role, so we’re looking for someone up for a challenge - if you’re a proactive and communicative person, 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
• Identify and quantify manual, repetitive tasks (toil) that impact team efficiency and platform stability
• Design and build Infrastructure as Code solutions
• 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
• Provide direct support to engineering teams with their development, testing, and production environments.
• Ensure engineering teams have the necessary tools and infrastructure to develop and deploy software efficiently.
• Work closely with engineering teams to understand their environment needs and provide tailored solutions.

About you

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience leading a team of DevOps Engineers
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, with a focus on building and maintaining scalable and resilient platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, ECS).
• Comprehensive skills of infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform) 
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., GitHub Actions)
• Strong scripting and programming skills (e.g., Python, Bash)
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

Bonus skills

• Past experience with enterprise solutions running at scale
• Familiarity with agile development processes
• Experience supporting engineering teams with their environment needs.
• Experience of configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef)

Interview process

1. Phone screen
2. 1st stage
3. 2nd stage

We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application or interview process, please reach out to a member of the team at careers@arbor-education.com.

Our commitment is also backed by our partnership with Neurodiversity Consultancy, Lexxic who provide us with training, support and advice. 

Arbor Education is an equal opportunities organisation

Our goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, and which gives them the tools they need to thrive - whatever their ambitions may be so we support and promote diversity and equality, and actively  encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. 

Refer a friend 

Know someone else who would be good for this role? You can refer a friend, family member or colleague, if they are offered a role with Arbor, we will say thank you with a voucher valued up to £200! Simply email: careers@arbor-education.com

Please note: We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.