About the team:
Platform Elements is a cross-functional agile infrastructure development team. The Platform Elements team builds platform products to enable Xero development teams to build and ship software in a fast, reliable and secure manner. PaaS leverages modern cloud computing tooling and continuous integration practices. Through our customer centric approach we aim to reduce the cognitive load for Xero Product teams.
We provide the end-to-end delivery of networking for all teams through automation. We enable this service to be accessed by any Xero team through the use of APIs and ensure a secure, scalable and automated service.
We use AWS as our sole cloud provider, a combination of scripting languages like Powershell and Python for automation, along with CI/CD tools like TeamCity and Octopus Deploy to provision new infrastructure. The team is always evolving and working toward the future so any devops and automation experience can be relevant.
Skills and experience:
- Hands-on experience implementing solutions in a cloud environment, preferably AWS
- Experience of modern product and engineering principles and practices
- Experience using Terraform and Kubernetes
- Understanding of containerization technologies
- Experience working with others in a collaborative, open and proactive way
- Experience writing APIs and infrastructure-as-code
What you'll bring with you:
- Great communication skills - you speak and write clearly and articulately
- Growth mindset - understands that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. Demonstrate a love of learning and resilience to adversity that is essential for great accomplishment.
- High EQ - you are self-aware, self-regulated, motivated and empathetic with great interpersonal skills.
- Exceptional troubleshooting and analytical abilities
Please note there will be an on-call component to this role with is on a 24/7 weekly rotation
