Lead DevOps Engineer

Education Perfect is an EdTech platform designed to empower educators and amplify their impact in the classroom. We 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. We’re looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This is a high-ownership role for an engineer who wants to shape how a serious EdTech platform is built and run. EP serves over 1.4 million students and 2,500+ schools across AU, NZ, and Canada with a scalable, distributed platform on AWS, deploying continuously to production. You’ll own reliability, security, and operability of the platform, set technical standards across the engineering org, and embed AI throughout the DevOps and security workflow. No direct reports, your leverage comes from the systems you build, the standards you set, and the engineers you coach. On the technical side, you’ll operate EP’s AWS cloud infrastructure, run and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, build observability and incident response capability, and develop self-service tooling and reusable infrastructure patterns. You’ll design and enforce security controls to support compliance with ISO 27001 and GDPR, and embed AI across the DevOps and security workflow, from automated code analysis to policy enforcement and observability. At EP, you’ll work on projects that have a real impact on students’ lives, with the freedom, support, and resources to develop your skills and grow your career. What you will do Infrastructure & Build Tooling Improve EP’s developer experience through workflow automation, self-service tooling, reusable infrastructure patterns, and careful standardisation. Maintain and enhance EP’s GitHub Actions-based build and deployment pipelines to increase engineering productivity and product quality. Ensure cost-effective use of third-party providers, such as AWS, Datadog, and Akamai. Monitor and optimize cloud spend. Develop and enforce high technical standards across the engineering team for performance, reliability, security, and maintainability. System Architecture Create high-level infrastructure designs that address the ongoing scalability, reliability, security, and performance needs of the platform. Collaborate across teams and functions to help define our architecture and technical roadmap. Help design and enforce security controls to ensure EP adheres to key compliance frameworks, such as ISO 27001 and GDPR. Site Reliability Own the end-to-end availability, reliability, security and performance of the EP platform. Develop automation, observability, and processes to keep EP highly available, scalable, and resilient. Participate in on-call rotations and incident response. Educate and empower software engineers to think operationally when designing services, and to operate what they build. General Embed AI into the development toolchain, including AI-powered security reviews, code analysis, policy enforcement, and observability. Leverage AI to drive personal and team productivity. Foster a healthy and collaborative culture, in line with EP’s core values. Make pragmatic decisions and sensible tradeoffs informed by high-level business objectives. About you Deep experience designing, developing, and operating cloud software and build tooling at scale. Deep experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and infrastructure as code. Experience building continuous deployment pipelines, automated quality and compliance gates, and AI workflow automation. A strong security mindset, experience with industry-standard security standards and frameworks, and familiarity with DevSecOps practices. Experience leading work and continuously improving on observability, logging, alerting, and incident response. Experience working in a distributed, cross-functional engineering team. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to manage risk, ambiguity, dependencies, and cross-functional stakeholders. Ability to align engineering work with high-level organisational goals. A keen sense of ownership and accountability. Equitable opportunities, growth, and development lie at the heart of how we work at EP. We understand that not all applicants may possess all of these attributes so if you think you have what it takes, but are not sure you check every box, we would love to still hear from you! What we offer Employee Equity Bonus Plan: Be part of our success with equity bonuses that foster ownership and shared growth across the company Christmas Shutdown Leave: Enjoy a full company shutdown during the week of Christmas, with 3 extra days of paid leave to bridge any non-public holidays Volunteer Day: One paid day per year to volunteer and give back to their communities Purchase Extra Leave: Opt-in to buy an extra week of annual leave, with payments spread across the year Work From Anywhere: Work up to 90 days per year from a different state or country—perfect for blending work and travel Wellness Bonus: Receive a pre-tax $750 NZD End-of-Year Wellness Bonus to support your health and well-being Health Insurance: Join our fully funded Southern Cross Wellbeing 1 plan ($500 excess), with optional add-ons and family cover Home Set-Up Support: Remote and hybrid workers may be eligible for support to set up a productive and comfortable home workspace Communication Allowance: Get $50 NZD/month toward your phone and internet costs if you work remotely or in a hybrid setup Parental Leave Support: We support growing families with up to 12 weeks of full-pay top-up for primary caregivers, 3 weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers, and an extra 5 days of New Parents Leave for both, all available after your first 3 months. Returning primary caregivers also receive enhanced pension contributions to support their financial wellbeing. Employee Assistance Program: Access 24/7 confidential support via Sonder for mental health, safety and medical needs - available globally and fully funded by EP Learning & Development: Access engaging internal workshops, performance reviews and ongoing development discussions to grow your career Tenure Recognition: Celebrate your milestones with bonus leave and cash rewards at 5, 10, and 15 years of service Referral Bonus: Recommend great people and earn a $2000 NZD pre-tax bonus when your referral joins and passes their trial period Workride: Access a bike, e-bike, or scooter through a temporary pre-tax salary sacrifice, saving 32–63% thanks to tax benefits. 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 We celebrate individuality, value diversity, and understand that flexible and remote work opportunities enable our team members to work in a way that fosters creativity and inspires individual brilliance. When you work with us, you're not just joining a company - you're joining a team united by the desire to make a difference.