Head of Platform Engineering
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Lead the Platform Engineering team at Education Perfect, focusing on enabling educators to personalize learning. Drive developer experience and platform strategy in a supportive, remote environment.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach and develop platform and enablement teams (frontend, backend, DevOps/SRE)
- Create a safe, inclusive and high-performing team environment
- Define and maintain platform team charters and collaboration boundaries
- Own the internal developer platform strategy (tooling, golden paths, self-service)
- Partner with engineering leadership on architecture, strategy and roadmap
- Drive platform standards (APIs, observability, reliability patterns)
- Support capacity planning and reliability targets (SLOs/SLIs)
- Improve developer experience and productivity metrics
- Embed operational thinking across software engineering teams
- Partner with Security & Privacy on controls and compliance (ISO 27001, ST4S, GDPR)
- Champion engineering excellence across the wider team
- Manage relationships with cloud and platform vendors
- Optimise cloud usage and strengthen FinOps practices
- Represent platform engineering in governance and architecture forums
Requirements:
- 8+ years designing, building and operating cloud software at scale
- Strong technical leadership and people management experience
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and align work to business goals
- Experience leading through influence across cross-functional teams
- Deep understanding of cloud architecture, operations, security and cost models
- Track record of improving developer experience and platform tooling
- Familiarity with CI/CD, self-service platforms and enablement practices
- Strong commercial acumen (vendor management, negotiations, build-vs-buy)
- Experience with FinOps or cloud cost optimisation
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, risk and dependencies
- Experience working with distributed teams
- Tech stack familiarity is a bonus (C#, TypeScript, React, Kafka, Terraform, AWS)
Benefits:
- Employee Equity Bonus Plan – Share in our success through equity bonuses that build ownership and collective growth
- Christmas Shutdown Leave – Enjoy three additional paid leave days
- Volunteer Day – One paid day each year to give back to your community
- Purchase Extra Leave – Choose to buy an additional week of annual leave, with payments spread across the year
- Work From Anywhere – Work up to 90 days per year from another country
- Wellness Bonus – Receive a pre-tax $750 NZD End-of-Year Wellness Bonus to support your wellbeing
- Health Insurance – Fully funded Southern Cross Wellbeing 1 plan ($500 excess), with optional add-ons and family cover
- Home Set-Up Support – Support available for eligible remote and hybrid team members to create a comfortable workspace
- Communication Allowance – $50 NZD per month toward phone and internet costs (remote/hybrid eligible)
- Parental Leave Support – Up to 12 weeks’ full-pay top-up for primary caregivers, 3 weeks’ paid leave for secondary caregivers, plus 5 days’ New Parents Leave for both. Returning primary caregivers also receive enhanced pension contributions.
- Employee Assistance Program – 24/7 confidential wellbeing, safety and medical support via Sonder (fully funded, global access)
- Learning & Development – Internal workshops, performance conversations and ongoing development opportunities
- Tenure Recognition – Bonus leave and cash rewards at key service milestones
- Referral Bonus – Earn a $2,000 NZD pre-tax bonus when your referral joins and passes their trial period
- Workride – Access bikes, e-bikes or scooters via pre-tax salary sacrifice and enjoy significant tax savings
- EP Support Groups – Mana Wahine, DEI, Environmental Impact, and Wellness Committees.
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