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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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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.

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What You Should Know About Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Xero

At Xero, we're on a mission to help businesses thrive by automating routine tasks and delivering actionable insights. We’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic team, where you’ll have the fantastic opportunity to work closely with developers, principal engineers, and product managers. Your main goal will be to create an infrastructure that allows our organization to scale efficiently and agilely. You’ll play a vital role in ensuring that our automated processes seamlessly transition code from its initial commit through various stages, including quality assurance, before rolling out to production. With your expertise, you'll help us maintain products that are secure, reliable, and high-performing for both our customers and partners. Your day-to-day will involve designing and enhancing cloud-based infrastructures using AWS’s PaaS and IaaS offerings, coupled with deploying Infrastructure as Code templates for consistency across environments. Collaboration is key; thus, you will frequently coach and support your team, sharing insights on programming best practices. With your background in tools like Git, Terraform, CI/CD approaches, and a variety of programming languages such as .Net and Python, you’re set to make a significant impact. At Xero, we celebrate the well-being and growth of our employees—offering generous leave policies, mental health support, and career development opportunities. Come join us and do the best work of your life!

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What are the main responsibilities of a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Xero?

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Xero, your primary responsibilities will include collaborating with various engineering teams to design and implement cloud infrastructure, developing automated processes for code deployment, and ensuring the scalability and security of our systems. You'll also be mentoring junior engineers and optimizing our monitoring practices.