Senior DevOps & Software Engineer

Arm Limited; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative technology company is seeking a skilled infrastructure and DevOps engineer to join their team. This role involves designing and maintaining cloud-native data platforms, ensuring high performance and availability while mentoring team members. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS, knowledge of programming languages such as Scala, TypeScript, or Python, and the ability to manage complex systems effectively.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software, DevOps, and distributed systems.
• Strong background in AWS and knowledge of other cloud providers.
• Ability to prioritize and manage workload effectively.

Responsibilities

• Design, automate, deploy, and maintain infrastructure and data pipelines.
• Define and enforce SLAs; ensure high availability and observability.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to architectural direction and code quality.

Skills

AWS

Programming (Scala, TypeScript, Python)

Infrastructure-as-Code

Container Orchestration

CI/CD Pipelines

Observability Tools

Workload Management

Job description

Job Overview:
You will be part of a team that designs, develops, tests, and builds a complex infrastructure stack for a high-performance and resilient Arm’s data engineering platform. You will enjoy a challenge and develop complete systems to a high standard.

This is an excellent opportunity to learn and expand your skills working with a large-scale engineering platform!

Responsibilities:

• Design, automate, deploy, and maintain multi-region infrastructure and data pipelines to scale the data platform's capabilities using cloud-native technologies.
• Define and enforce SLAs; ensure high availability and observability.
• Tune platform performance under high-throughput workloads and lead cost reporting and forecasting.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to architectural direction and code quality.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with infrastructure, tools, and operations teams to ensure the platform remains efficient and cost-effective.
• Perform continuous research on data technologies to stay up to date with the best alternatives for the existing architectures.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven working experience in the field of software, DevOps & distributed systems in production with a very strong background in AWS and knowledge of other cloud providers (e.g. GCP, Azure).
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Scala, TypeScript or Python.
• Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Container orchestration deployment, configuration, and administration. (e.g. Docker Swarm, Kubernetes).
• Confirmed experience designing CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, actionable alerts, and ownership of production support practices.
• Observability, alerting, metrics collection and visualisation (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Dynatrace).
• Ability to prioritise and manage your own workload.
• Ability to present, communicate and document the architecture in a visual form.

“Nice To Have”:

We would be even more impressed if you were passionate about the following:

• Attention to detail and the ability to coordinate cross-organisation problem-solving.
• Analytics infrastructure and tooling (e.g. Databricks, Apache Spark).
• Automation and configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Customer-facing experience: you will need to communicate with platform users, resolve issues and express complex ideas clearly.
• Understanding of key security technologies and protocols such as TLS, OAuth and SPIFFE.
• Experience leading migrations to modernise production software stack and infrastructure.

In Return:
We are proud to have a set of behaviours that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together and shape the extraordinary. We offer a hybrid approach and strive to provide an adaptable experience for everyone and promote a strong collaborative environment.

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Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.