Full-Time

Senior DevOps Engineer

Arbor Education

Arbor Education

201-500 employees

Cloud-based MIS for UK schools

No salary listed

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Hybrid

Hybrid work environment.

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Required Skills
Datadog
Agile
Incident Response
RDBMS
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Docker
CloudFormation
AWS
Prometheus
Terraform
Nginx
Ansible
DevOps

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Requirements
  • 6-12 years of experience.
  • Extensive experience in DevOps engineering and operating a large-scale platform.
  • Extensive experience with distributed cloud systems, specifically Amazon Web Services.
  • Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
  • Understanding of relational database technologies and their cloud versions, such as AWS Aurora.
  • Experience with messaging and distributed asynchronous workloads.
  • Experience with Nginx or similar technologies.
  • Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, or similar tools.
  • Good written and spoken English for presenting ideas.
Responsibilities
  • Work with the Head of Platform and Head of Site Reliability Engineering to identify improvements within the platform infrastructure and implement plans to address them.
  • Work with the Platform teams to improve the maturity of all system components, including ensuring high availability and adequate testing and disaster recovery plans.
  • Contribute to improving continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines and provide deployment patterns.
  • Assist in incident response and resolution, followed by post-mortems and retrospectives.
  • Participate in technical talks and team-based learning to spread knowledge.
  • Create and maintain Playbooks, Runbooks, and systems documentation to support knowledge transfer.
Desired Qualifications
  • Past experience with enterprise solutions running at scale.
  • Familiarity with Kanban and Agile development processes.
  • Experience with Docker and containerization.
  • Familiarity with software best practices such as refactoring, clean code, domain-driven design, and test-driven development.

Arbor Education provides a cloud-based Management Information System (MIS) for schools and Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs), uniting attendance, behaviour, assessment and progress tracking, payments, a parent app, and statutory reporting in one platform. It operates by offering a centralized MIS that delivers a trust-wide view for MATs, with subscription pricing based on school size and package, and it extends HR capabilities by integrating with SAMpeople through acquisitions. It differentiates itself through scale as part of the largest cloud-based UK MIS provider following The Key Group acquisition, enabling cross-school data sharing and HR integration. Its goal is to reduce administrative workload for staff and improve student outcomes by providing a data-driven, efficient system for operations, reporting, and HR data.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$13.8M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2011

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Cardiff chose Arbor MIS and Arbor Finance for 128 schools in January 2026.
  • Arbor Workflows launches in March 2026, extending automation beyond attendance and behaviour.
  • Outwood Grange Academies Trust signed a £2.2m Arbor deal in April 2025, proving enterprise demand.

What critics are saying

  • Sunsetting ScholarPack and Integris in February 2026 forces migrations and invites churn to SIMS rivals.
  • Permira's November 2025 takeover of The Key Group adds integration pressure across Arbor, SAMpeople, and finance.
  • Ask Arbor's Azure OpenAI features create data-governance exposure; one school privacy breach damages trust.

What makes Arbor Education unique

  • Arbor controls ScholarPack, Integris, and Arbor MIS, consolidating UK school workflows by February 2026.
  • Arbor AI and Ask Arbor embed contextual copilots directly inside MIS records and reporting.
  • Arbor Finance and SAMpeople integration give trusts unified MIS, HR, payments, and analytics.

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Benefits

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

Hybrid Work Options

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Wellness Program

Mental Health Support

Parental Leave

Company Social Events

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

2%
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