SRE Engineer: Build a Reliable, Scalable Education Platform

Arbor Education; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing team initiatives

32 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Life Assurance 3x annual salary

Private health insurance

Pension salary sacrifice

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Flexible working

Job summary

Arbor Education is seeking an enthusiastic Site Reliability Engineer to join the SRE team. You will advise on availability, scalability, observability, and capacity planning to deliver world-class reliability across the platform.

The role focuses on monitoring, incident response, SLOs, and runbooks, with collaboration across Platform Engineering, SRE, and platform teams. A proactive, collaborative mindset is essential for this role in the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience in performance monitoring and analysis.
• Capacity planning experience.
• Scripting and automation skills with relevant technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.
• Understanding of relational databases in cloud environments (e.g. AWS Aurora).
• Experience with messaging and distributed asynchronous workloads.
• Experience with nginx or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with SRE processes and DevOps principles.

Responsibilities

• Proactively monitor and analyse platform performance.
• Collaborate with engineering to address bottlenecks and ensure scalability.
• Assist engineering with implementing and reviewing SLOs.
• Improve observability through dashboards using DataDog or Prometheus.
• Work with teams to ensure effective coverage and high availability.
• Develop runbooks and test DR/HA and backups.
• Lead incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Develop and maintain documentation and playbooks.

Skills

Performance monitoring

Capacity planning

Scripting & automation

DevOps principles

Distributed systems

SRE processes

3 ways & 5 ideals

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Docker

NGINX

DataDog/Prometheus

Job description

Arbor Education is seeking an enthusiastic Site Reliability Engineer to join the SRE team. You will advise on availability, scalability, observability, and capacity planning to deliver world-class reliability across the platform.

The role focuses on monitoring, incident response, SLOs, and runbooks, with collaboration across Platform Engineering, SRE, and platform teams. A proactive, collaborative mindset is essential for this role in the UK.