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Staff DevOps & QA Engineer

Job ID 2025-16257 Date posted Feb. 20, 2026 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Software Engineering Apply

Job Overview:

The Fast Models DevOps & QA team is looking for a passionate, hands-on Test Automation / DevOps Engineer to play a key role in delivering high-quality software releases and continuously improving our technology stack and developer tooling.

In this role, you’ll help shape and implement solutions that have a direct impact on how Fast Models are developed, tested, and released. Your work will support internal developer teams and ultimately enable our customers to design the next generation of processors.

Your day-to-day work is varied and engaging, and includes:

· Partnering with developer teams to diagnose and resolve build, infrastructure, and test issues

· Designing, automating, and optimising CI/CD workflows and pipelines

· Collaborating across teams and stakeholders to coordinate and support release activities

· Analysing test results and data to drive quality improvements and inform engineering decisions.

· Contribute to the modernization of tooling and automation infrastructure.


Key Skills and Experience:


· Proven experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

· Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and software engineering principles

· Hands-on experience with test automation development

· Good scripting experience – Python, Bash

· Experience working with infrastructure in Cloud.Comfortable working in Linux environments via CLI and scripting.

· Experience in leading large project.


Nice to have Skills and Experience:


· Experience driving efficiency and quality improvements in large software projects

· Familiarity with C/C++ development workflows – CMake, Ninja, Conan

· Experience with CI/CD tools – especially Jenkins, but also TeamCity, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI

· Knowledge of Groovy scripting and Jenkins DSL

· Infrastructure as Code – Ansible, Chef

· Cloud experience – AWS, GCP, Azure

· Container orchestration – Docker, Kubernetes, or equivalents (ECS, EKS, AKS)

· Cloud automation – Boto3, Pulumi, Terraform

· Experience in data analytics and dashboarding solutions.

People:

· Good communications skills, and ability to communicate appropriately with a diverse set of audiences at all levels of the organisation

· Highly collaborative and effective in cross-team environments

· Able to build great working relationships with stakeholders and developers outside of the team


In Return:

Arm is a global, diverse organisation of dedicated, innovative, and highly capable people. We believe great ideas come from a vibrant and inclusive workplace where everyone can grow, succeed, and share their outstanding contributions. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate in any way against any employee or applicant for employment. You will join a multi-cultural team with varied skills and experience. You will have access to a huge variety of technologies and systems to learn and will be supported every step of the way.

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