Senior Platform Engineer

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ArborEducation software

Remote - UKFull-TimeSenior

Salary80,000 - 90,000 GBP per year

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Experience: Considerable professional experience in Platform Engineering on complex, scalable systems.
Required Skills: AWSPHPPythonJavaC++GoPrometheusTerraformDatadogDistributed Systems

Have considerable professional experience in platform engineering on complex, scalable systems.
Bring hands-on expertise with AWS and distributed cloud architectures.
Have experience operating production platforms handling at least 6,000 requests per second.
Understand enterprise deployment and maintenance processes, including blue-green deployments.
Be proficient with Terraform and configuration management tools.
Have strong Python, Go, or similar language skills for automation and tooling.
Have significant experience with Java, C++, C#, PHP, or another language, preferably in a sizable object-oriented codebase.
Have hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog or Prometheus, and incident/problem management practices.
Understand distributed systems, microservices, and resilience patterns.
Have hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS.
Have practical experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
Have experience supporting and mentoring engineers through code review, pairing, and feedback.
Have experience using agentic AI or an interest in productivity tooling, including agentic AI.

Contribute to system design and architecture decisions, balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and security.
Own services from design through production, ensuring observability and adherence to agreed Service Level Objectives.
Improve platform reliability, performance, efficiency, and infrastructure and operations automation.
Apply coding standards, write tested and reusable code, and help ensure services meet production readiness standards.
Provide estimates and feasibility input, deliver work iteratively, contribute to release planning, and participate in post-release reviews.
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 engineers to align technical delivery with product strategy.

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