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If you perform and deliver in this Head of IT role at a fast-growing SaaS scaleup, you will become a living legend.

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- The Head of IT will work for a high-growth, customer-centric, Perth-based SaaS business.
- The Head of IT will enjoy an excellent salary, equity, Super and a competitive benefits package.
- The Head of IT will enjoy a strong work/life balance culture and hybrid working.
- The Head of IT will enjoy ambiguity and thrive when building processes and systems from scratch.
- The Head of IT will own sprint planning, backlog grooming and delivery cadence across the engineering team.
- The Head of IT will define, track and report on core team metrics (velocity, uptime, MTTR, deployment frequency, etc).
- The Head of IT will be comfortable leading a team through agile/scrum delivery, with strong command of the aforementioned team metrics.
- The Head of IT will build and manage the strategic roadmap for IT and infrastructure, aligned to company growth targets.
- The Head of IT will hire, mentor and manage a growing team as the company scales.
- The Head of IT will manage budget and vendor relationships for tooling and infrastructure spend.
- The Head of IT will work with 3rd party vendors to evaluate, negotiate and manage tooling, infrastructure and security solutions.
- The Head of IT will report to leadership on team performance, risks and capacity planning.
- The Head of IT will manage a small team of DevOps engineers.
- The Head of IT will have hands-on DevOps and cloud infrastructure experience.




- The Head of IT will own the cloud infrastructure strategy, specifically focused on AWS.
- The Head of IT will lead CI/CD pipeline design, automation and continuous improvement.
- The Head of IT will own system reliability, scalability and observability (monitoring, alerting, incident response).
- The Head of IT will drive infrastructure-as-code practices and enforce engineering best practices.
- The Head of IT will own disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
- The Head of IT will manage cost optimisation across cloud infrastructure.
- The Head of IT will oversee a suite of certification processes, from audit prep through to renewal.
- The Head of IT will be familiar with SOC2, IRAP, Essential Eight or equivalent.
- The Head of IT will be conversant with ISO 27001 (Information Security Management).
- The Head of IT will build and maintain security policies, controls and evidence libraries.
- The Head of IT will act as primary point of contact for customer security questionnaires and due diligence.
- The Head of IT will have experience of owning a certification process from start to finish.
- The Head of IT will have demonstrable leadership experience, ideally within a SaaS or a high-growth tech environment.
- The Head of IT will have first-class stakeholder management skills and be equally comfortable presenting to leadership, board and enterprise customers.
- The Head of IT will have experience in a regulated industry (fintech, govtech, healthtech or similar).
- The Head of IT will have experience scaling an IT function through multiple growth stages e.g. Series A-D.

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