Xero is hiring a
Engineer-DevOps

Summary

Join Xero as an Intermediate Engineer with a background in DevOps, SQL, Terraform, Octopus Deploy, AWS. Work on improving the scalability and performance of Xero while being part of the DrDRE Platform-as-a-Service Database team.

Requirements

• Database/Infrastructure - SQL/Postgres/Dynamo
• Scripting experience - Python, Powershell
• Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Cloudformation
• CICD - Jenkins, Octopus deploy, Teamcity, Github Actions
• Cloud Platform - AWS or relevant exp

Responsibilities

• Be customer-focused and directly engage with our PaaS customers; identify customer pain points and solve real customer problems based on observing their struggles and analysing customer data
• Develop continuous delivery pipelines and software tools to automate cloud-based solutions
• Build and maintain a centralised SQL Server platform and ancillary tools to enable Xero’s development teams
• Automate and support infrastructure provisioned in AWS with infrastructure-as-code solutions
• Continuously improve processes and solutions to be scalable and highly available
• Implement detection and alerting of anomalous behaviours
• Master several technical areas while maintaining a broad understanding of the current industry landscape. Ensure technical decisions are made with your team in alignment with Xero’s engineering practice
• Work proactively with your manager on your personal and career development, highlighting any training/development needs
• Join the teams on call rotation and use analytical and problem solving skills to resolve incidents

Benefits

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