About Kami

Kami is not only an award-winning education startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, but a thriving organisation filled to the brim with talented, creative, and passionate people! It’s hard not to love what you do when our digital classroom platform offers meaningful solutions to over 40 million users worldwide, empowering students and supporting teachers.

You’ll be joining at a pretty magical time. Kami’s user base is growing by the day. With over 100 team members based across Auckland, the USA, South Africa and Europe, we couldn’t be more proud of the accomplishments and milestones we’ve achieved to date. Now, this is your chance to join our team and become an integral member of Kami’s growth, while shaping your own future, and having fun in the process.

The opportunity

We are on the hunt for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic and fast-growing team. As an engineer for this forward-thinking organisation, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, availability, scalability and performance of our applications.

We’re not called Kami-leons for nothing! You’ll be working with a team full of agile, flexible and open-minded people who want to make a difference in the world (and enjoy the process too!).

If you’re looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to have a real impact on the lives of millions, then this is your opportunity. Kami is growing fast and so will you.

What you'll do:

• Analyze and optimize system reliability, performance, and resource utilization of cloud infrastructure
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance tasks.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) to automate the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure components.
• Design and implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify and address issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents to ensure system stability and performance.
• Conduct capacity planning to anticipate future resource needs and optimize infrastructure scalability.
• Define and track reliability metrics to measure and improve system performance.
• Prepare and present reports on system reliability and performance.
• Work closely with software development teams to influence and improve the reliability and scalability of applications.
• Conduct post-incident reviews to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.
• Troubleshoot complex issues in a production environment.

What you’ll bring

• 7+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE or similar role
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Relevant experience in software engineering, systems administration, or a related field.
• Proficiency in programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Ruby).
• Strong scripting skills for automation tasks (e.g. Bash, Python).
• Hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. Google Cloud, AWS) and container orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes), including adherence to best practices and resource optimisation
• A proficient understanding of core networking concepts (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. Terraform) and/or configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring, logging and alerting tools (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty), and log analysis
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to analyze complex systems and troubleshoot issues effectively.

What you get out of it

• Working for a people-first employer that is on an inspiring mission to build the future of education while changing the lives of millions
• Excellent perks including health insurance, catered lunches, regular social events, wellness activities, and much more!
• Flexible working approach that is truly flexible to your needs
• Learning and development opportunities and the chance to grow and shape your future with Kami
• A diverse and challenging role
• The satisfaction of knowing you’re not only helping modern-day superheroes aka teachers, but also helping them shape the minds of future generations all across the globe

Kami is an equal-opportunity workplace, and we would like to hear from all qualified applicants. If you have a disability or any special needs that we might need to accommodate, please let us know.

If this sounds like your dream role then apply now and lets chat!