DevOps & SRE Lead

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.

As an EPeep, you’ll work on projects that have a real impact on students' lives and have the freedom, support and resources you need to develop your skills and grow your career.

We’re looking for an experienced DevOps & SRE Lead to guide and grow our talented team of engineers. In this role, you’ll provide strong technical and people leadership, shape our infrastructure strategy and drive operational excellence across the business. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, influence engineering practices and ensure our systems remain secure, scalable and cost-effective. This is a fantastic opportunity to have a real impact on our technical direction while mentoring a high-performing team.

What you will do

• Lead, manage and support EP’s small but capable 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
• Educate and empower software engineers to think operationally when designing services and to operate what they build
• Track metrics around infrastructure and developer experience and use these to guide investment
• Design and own security controls to ensure EP adheres to compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, ST4S and GDPR
• Build and manage strong relationships with key software, platform and service vendors
• Ensure cost-effective use of third party providers such as AWS and develop EP’s FinOps culture and practices

About you

Equitable opportunities, growth, and development lie at the heart of how we work at EP. We understand that not all applicants may possess all the following 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

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.