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Where data guides progress without overwhelming staff. And where everyone working in a school is reminded why they got into education every day.\nOur 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.\nAt 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.\nAbout the role\nWe are looking for an experienced and collaborative Site Reliability Technical Lead to join our Site Reliability team and take ownership of system and solution design to ensure our products are robust, scalable, and secure. 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Foster alignment and help the team galvanise around technical solutions and goals.\nCollaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and other engineers to align technical direction with product strategy. Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nRequirements\nAbout you\nExperience: Extensive professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering on complex, scalable systems.\nCloud Systems: Extensive expertise with AWS and distributed cloud architectures.\n Platform Scale: Proven experience operating platforms serving a high volume of requests (~1000 req/sec).\nInfrastructure as Code: Advanced proficiency with Terraform and configuration management tools.\nProgramming: Strong skills in Python, Go, or a similar language for automation and tooling.\n Observability: Deep experience with monitoring and observability platforms (e.g., DataDog, Prometheus, or equivalent), plus incident/problem management.\nSystem Design: Expert understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and resilience patterns.\n Containerisation: Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS).\nCI/CD: Practical experience with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.\nLeadership: Demonstrated ability in mentoring and supporting the growth of fellow engineers.\nBonus Skills\nExperience with chaos engineering and reliability testing.\nKnowledge of security best practices and compliance frameworks.\nBackground in agile and lean methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).\nContributions to open-source projects or the SRE community.\nBenefits\nWhat we offer\nThe chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you’ll see the impact of your work everyday. We also offer:\nA dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!\n32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas\nLife Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary\nComprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks \nPrivate Dental Insurance with Bupa \nSalary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows\nEnhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay\n5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!\nAccess to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching) \nAll of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you\nSocial committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success\nDedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)\nVolunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year\nDog friendly offices!\nInterview process\nPhone screen\n1st stage\n2nd stage\nWe 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 .\nOur commitment is also backed by our partnership with Neurodiversity Consultancy, Lexxic who provide us with training, support and advice.\nArbor Education is an equal opportunities organisation\nOur 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.\nRefer a friend\nKnow 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! 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