Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Xero as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer and be part of a team responsible for ensuring robust and automated infrastructure and tooling. You will collaborate with developers, principal engineers, and product managers to design and implement cloud-based infrastructure using AWS services. Your responsibilities include developing strong development processes, automating cloud resource provisioning, optimizing observability and monitoring, and mentoring junior engineers. This role requires extensive experience with various technologies throughout the SDLC, including source control, build tools, deployment tools, and monitoring tools. Xero offers a comprehensive benefits package including generous paid leave, wellbeing programs, medical insurance, parental leave, and employee share plan.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience and a passion for mentoring junior team members

Benefits

• Very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
• 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