Senior Engineer - Cloud Network

Our Purpose 

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

Platform Elements is a cross-functional agile infrastructure development team. The Platform Elements team builds platform products to enable Xero development teams to build and ship software in a fast, reliable and secure manner.  Platform Elements leverages modern cloud computing tooling and continuous integration practices. Through our customer centric approach we aim to reduce the cognitive load for Xero Product teams. 

As a Senior Cloud Engineer specialising in cloud infrastructure, you will design, develop, and maintain network solutions and critical infrastructure patterns, primarily leveraging AWS technologies while incorporating additional capabilities across other cloud providers such as Azure and Google Cloud Platform. This role emphasises ensuring seamless connectivity and scalability, robust security, and optimal performance in multi-cloud and hybrid environments, with AWS serving as the foundational platform for key infrastructure initiatives.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will:

• Collaborate on the design and implementation of  cloud based network infrastructure, including VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) configuration, Advanced routing and connectivity patterns (Including Transit Gateway and Private link) and new and evolving network technologies like Service Mesh
• Develop Terraform modules, templates and providers to automate the provisioning and configuration of cloud resources, ensuring consistency and repeatability across environments
• Configure and manage gateways (e.g., VPN, Direct Connect) to establish secure and reliable connections between on-premises and cloud environments. Manage DNS services and records to ensure efficient name resolution and traffic routing.
• Create and maintain capabilities and practices around understanding connectivity @ Xero to help our developers quickly understand connectivity issues and patterns  to create solutions customers love
• Monitor and analyse network performance metrics. Identify bottlenecks and optimise network configurations to improve throughput, latency, and reliability
• Integrate network infrastructure provisioning and configuration processes into CICD pipelines. Automate testing, deployment, and rollback procedures to streamline the release process
• Create rich experiences to allow developers to easily drive changes in our network infrastructure with safety and security build in

What you will bring with you

• Proficiency in AWS services, including VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, and Route 53
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
• Knowledge of DNS management, including domain registration, DNSSEC, and DNS routing policies
• Understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, or AWS CodePipeline
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Bash or Golang
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in agile environments, contributing to team success and fostering a culture of continuous improvement

Why Xero? 

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.