Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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.

What you will do:

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will be in a team of  Infrastructure engineers, working alongside Developers, Principle Engineers and Product Managers.  

You will be responsible for ensuring our infrastructure and tooling are an enabler of organisational scale and agility. Specifically, that we have robust and automated processes that move code from commit, through build and automated quality assurance processes, to deployment to staging environments and thereafter into production environments. 

You will ensure the products that the team is responsible for are available, secure, scalable, robust, high performing and cost-effective to serve both Xero customers and partners.

The role:

• Work within a team of Infrastructure engineers, collaborating with other engineering teams, Principal Engineers and Product Managers
• Collaborate and support internal teams with the design and implementation of cloud based infrastructure and tooling through PaaS and IaaS services offered by AWS that enable organisational scale, agility and reliability
• Develop and implement strong development processes that support engineering productivity and customer satisfaction by leveraging automation processes in testing, deployment and rollback procedures
• Develop Infrastructure as Code templates and providers to automate the provisioning and configuration of cloud resources, ensuring consistency and repeatability across environments
• Analyse and optimise observability and monitoring practices of infrastructure and applications via New Relic, Cloudwatch, Sumologic, etc.
• Coach and mentor engineers within the team on programming best practices with a focus on engineering excellence

In order to be successful in this role, you will have

• Experience of relevant technologies used throughout the SDLC. Such as source control systems (in particular Git), build tools (such as Github Actions), deployment tools (such as Terraform, Docker, AWS deployment tooling, etc) and monitoring tools (such as New Relic, Cloudwatch, Sumologic, etc).
• Experience across a broad range of technology domains including networking, O/S (especially Linux), Docker and AWS ECS, EventStore and/or Postgres. It will also require knowledge of PaaS and IaaS services offered by AWS.
• Experience in a range of languages (.Net, Python)
• Proficiency with CI/CD concepts and tooling
• Experience with improving release processes and deployment pipelines using approaches like blue/green deployments, canary releases, testing in production and feature flagging.
• Experienced working in a DevOps, Release Engineering, Development, or similar role
• Experience and a passion for mentoring junior team members

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, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, 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.