Senior Engineer

Job description
Our purpose is to supercharge your business by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights, and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors, and apps.

Platform Elements
Platform Elements is a cross-functional agile infrastructure development team that builds platform products to enable Xero development teams to build and ship software in a fast, reliable, and secure manner.

Our customer-centric approach aims to reduce the cognitive load for Xero Product teams.

Senior Cloud Engineer
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.

Key Responsibilities:
Collaborate on the design and implementation of cloud-based network infrastructure, including VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) configuration, Advanced routing and connectivity patterns, 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 (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 built-in.
What You'll Bring:
You will bring 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, and understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, or AWS CodePipeline.

You will also bring proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Bash, or Golang, and a proven ability to work collaboratively in agile environments, contributing to team success and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Why Xero?
Xero offers generous paid leave, dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing, 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.