Job ID 2022-7372
Date posted Feb. 05, 2025
Location Cambridge, United Kingdom; Manchester, United Kingdom
Category Software Engineering
Job Overview:
We are looking for a GitLab DevOps engineers to join our team. This role has significant impact in improving the engineering experience at Arm!
Productivity Engineering supplies the tools and systems needed for creation of our software and hardware IP. Within this group, the Software & DevOps function provides DevOps tooling used across the company’s engineering population, as well as focusing on the tooling needs of software engineers.
As a Senior Engineer at Arm you will own technical deliveries, with responsibility from requirements through to planning, implementation, and delivery.
At the heart of our approach is a genuine passion for improving the lives of other Engineers at Arm, and a complete focus on delivering solutions aligned to business outcomes.
Responsibilities:

Administer and maintain GitLab environments, to provide a first-class engineering experience for Arm’s hardware and software engineers:

• Optimise GitLab for higher reliability and performance.
• Maintain the systems, from the underlying infrastructure to the application layer.
• Provide technical support.
• Develop and maintain reusable CI/CD components.
• Engineering experience – improving the daily life and productivity of engineers across Arm.

Our varied activities involve development, and operational work. We support and guide the engineering community on how best to utilise the services we offer. Developments range from minor improvements to multi-month strategic projects. We invest significant time collaborating with other engineering teams at Arm.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Deep understanding of GitLab internals and architecture.
• Experience of Linux based infrastructure design, provisioning, and maintenance.
• A good knowledge of Cloud services. Experience of at least one of the following: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
• Demonstrable experience in Infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet.
• Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Fleet).
• Interpreted languages (e.g. Bash, Python, Ruby, Perl) and compiled languages (e.g. Golang, C, C++, Java).

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

• Experience working in a Platform Engineering environment, with the associated focus on developer experience and productivity, and the ethos of enabling self-service access to infrastructure and systems through automation.
• A good understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• An active interest in Open-Source Software.
• Building or integrating with Internal Developer Portals (Backstage/React/TypeScript).
• Experience of Microservice Software development.

In Return:
We will provide the training and environment to excel in this role. We offer a hybrid approach to remote, and office working and strive to provide an adaptable experience for all employees and to promote a strong collaborative environment.

LI-KD1

Accommodations at Arm
At Arm, we want our people to Do Great Things. If you need support or an accommodation to Be Your Brilliant Self during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
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

Please refer the Job description for details