ABOUT THE TEAM:

You’ll be a key part of the (DrDRE) Platform-as-a-Service Database team, a cross-functional agile infrastructure development team.
Our goal is to create a data platform to provide Xero product teams with highly available databases in a consistent and automated fashion. You will build on the technical capabilities of the team to provision, own and maintain the production Database infrastructure, troubleshoot performance issues, build ancillary tooling, automation and resolve production incidents

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We’re looking for a proven Senior Engineer, with a background in DevOps, SQL, Terraform, Octopus Deploy, AWS.
You will make an impact by applying your engineering skills to understand and drive the development of applications and tools that improve the scalability and performance of Xero.
If you enjoy flexibility in the way you work, and diving into difficult engineering problems while having the freedom to solve them creatively, this is the role for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

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• 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.
• You will join the teams on call rotation and use analytical and problem solving skills to resolve incidents.