About the company

IDP Education Limited is an ASX listed company that is 50% owned by 38 Australian universities and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. IDP’s core business lines include student placement to Australia, US, UK, Canada and New Zealand institutions, English-language testing and training.

We are setting out to be the world’s leading platform and connected international student community through building tons of new products to put our customers at the heart of everything we do.

For over 50 years our global network of 93 offices has been helping students to achieve their goals through studying abroad. By pursuing a global education at the beginning of their careers, we help them experience life-changing opportunities. For more than 5,000 employees in more than 50 countries, IDP Education is a specialist employer of choice in major cities across the globe.

If you share our passion in helping people to pursue their dreams through education and thrive in an innovative agile digital culture then come and join us as we undergo our digital revolution.

Position Purpose :
IDP are looking for DevOps Architect who want to do important work, with a totally modern tech stack, in an environment where we are constantly improving our Software Engineering, and importantly we deliver high quality software each sprint.

Is this you?

I want to design and manage the software engineering process. You will have an unique opportunity to design and manage the software engineering process end to end.

I collaborate with teams that deliver. People respect me, because when I commit to something I deliver it at cloud speed. I can help accelerate the software engineering process end to end and help make a developer’s life so much more easier.

I’m a problem solver. I have a reputation as someone that people pull in when there is a tough problem to solve.

The process of software development is important to me. I understand the methods of creating amazing software.

Teamwork is important to me. I know Software is a team sport, and I work well with others.

I learn quickly. I love learning, improving my skills, and I plan to never stop. I tend to pick up new concepts and technologies quickly.

If so, here is what we are looking for:
DevOps. You will manage the software development process and create an automated delivery pipeline that assists in building software more efficiently.

Software Development Process. You will have practical experience in modern software development practices and principles. Shift-left practices such as TDD, Pair Programming and the practical implementation of CI/CD and DevSecOps are important in this role. Principles such as SOLID, IDEALS, Security by Design, Privacy by Design are all valued.

You will bring a practical experience in many of these and have the skills to implement them in your squads.

A Leader amidst High Performing Teams. While you will still define and develop automation to build software, you will be required to facilitate processes, identify setbacks and shortcomings for various engineering teams and establish continuous build environments to speed up the software development process. You will ensure that teams adhere to standards to enable consistent service delivery in an accelerated manner

Innovator and Thought Leader. IDP are always looking to improve. We value Software experts who float ideas, improve our standards, share knowledge – you will have a history of these sorts of things.

Serverless & IaC. With few exceptions IDP utilize AWS Serverless services which continues to give us fantastic flexibility to deliver business features. You will have practical experience with the most common AWS serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS) or their Azure/GCP equivalents is important. We do all our provisioning using IaC and are currently migrating over to AWS CDK from Terraform.

About Developing Software at IDP

IDP does innovation well. We have a constant stream of incremental innovation in our existing products we manage with our SAFe Agile processes. IDP has some “super-power” advantages that contribute heavily to the success of our innovations: We have a powerful mission (we really do change our customers lives), a completely modern tech stack, a skilled and productive in-house software development capability, and innovation focused business leadership – right from the top.

Our Tech Stack. Our tech stack is largely cantered around the following components: Language: Python; IaC: AWS CDK; Database: PostgreSQL, Redshift ; AWS Serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS); Observability: SumoLogic; Frontend: Angular; CMS: Contentful

Microservices and SaaS. Many companies are talking about doing Digital Transformations. IDP started in 2017 when a range of best-in-class SaaS solutions were implemented for CRM, Marketing Automation, Contact Centres, Event Management, e-Commerce solutions to create our Global Platform. These SaaS solutions do much of the heavy lifting for our platform, but we do most of our feature innovation in our Microservices.

Event Driven Architecture. IDP began its move to the Event Driven Architecture in 2019. The EDA is now providing major advantages: Our business transactions are real time and fast; we have full observability and fault tolerance built into our standards; and data is available across our entire platform.

SAFe Agile. IDP utilize many of the ceremonies from the SAFe Agile framework which are well embedded in how we innovate. Our delivery teams are organized in Squads, we utilize Jira, and deliver in sprints.

Machine Learning. IDP have a very strong Data Science team who work with our developers to build machine learning algorithms utilizing our data advantage. We incorporate algorithms into many of our workflows and microservices.

Security & Privacy. We build Security and Design into all stages of our software development from Architectures, Solutioning, the Development process, and production.

Architecture and Solutioning. IDP have a strong architecture practice that have modern Architectures and designed solutions to go into the Software Development process.

What our Software does…

IDP genuinely change peoples’ lives. Our mission is to help students make the right decisions to achieve their global dreams. As Technologists, each sprint the features we deliver will most likely change at many people’s lives dramatically for the better – it feels good.

We have built the world’s largest community of prospective students, who are connected to the largest network of highly trained counsellors, who are, in turn, connected to institutions in major destination countries.

IDP Live is our latest innovation in technology and data including a cutting-edge app and platform that connects students with their dreams – the right course, in the right country, at the right