Platform Lead - Remote

Overview

Education Perfect is an EdTech platform designed to empower educators and amplify their impact in the classroom. We aim to enable teachers to personalise learning at scale with a range of powerful learning, assessment, and insights tools, helping them and their students reach their full potential.

In Short

• Lead, manage and support EP’s DevOps/SRE group and create a safe and inclusive environment for the team
• Collaborate across teams and functions to help define our architecture and our technical strategy and roadmap
• Own the end-to-end availability, reliability, security and performance of EPs platforms
• Develop automation, observability and processes to keep EP highly available, scalable and resilient
• Maintain and enhance EP's build and deployment processes to increase engineering productivity and product quality
• Ensure cost-effective use of third party providers, such as AWS
• Design and own security controls to ensure EP adheres to compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2 and GDPR
• Educate and empower software engineers to think operationally when designing services and to operate what they build

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing and operating cloud software at scale
• 5+ years in a DevOps or SRE role, preferably on AWS
• Experience with technical leadership and people management, including the ability to mentor and support other engineers and align engineering work with high-level organisational goals
• Deep understanding of cloud design patterns, cloud operations, security and cost models – with hands-on ability to implement best practices and drive improvements
• Ability to manage risk, ambiguity, dependencies and cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience working with distributed teams in global engineering organisations
• Familiarity with our tech stack is an advantage, but not a requirement: C#, TypeScript, React, Kafka and Terraform on AWS. We also use Cloudflare, GitHub Actions, New Relic, Wiz and a variety of other tools.

Benefits

• As our team is based globally, we offer both remote and flexible working arrangements
• For our remote workers, a communication allowance towards your monthly internet or phone charges and $1000 towards setting up your home office
• Three extra days of annual leave during our end of year shut down period, parental leave top ups and a community service day
• Wellness allowance to use on anything to support your mental and physical wellness
• EAP with unlimited sessions
• Employee Equity Bonus Plan
• Employee referral program - $2000 when you refer a new team member
• Ongoing professional development, including opportunities to develop your career into other areas of our business and access to EPs Learning Hub
• EP support groups - Mana Wahine, DEI, Environmental Impact and Wellness Committees
• The opportunity to work within a growing global business with Diversity Works accreditation, Carbon Net Zero BCorp status, Digital Promise certification, and an unwavering commitment to our mission, people, and community