Senior Security Engineer - Identity

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. 
At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.
We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join our Identity and Access team based in either New Zealand or the east coast of Australia.
As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll ensure our platform security systems are deployed and maintained to support the requirements of our Xero teams.
Who's the team?The mission of the Identity and Access team is to provide the right individuals, the right access, at the right time. We’re a collective of engineers from varying backgrounds that focus our efforts on making our platform and applications easy to use for our engineers. We build guard rails rather than roadblocks, and strive to make it easy for our customers to ship secure products with as little friction as possible. We’re looking for a curious cloud engineer to join our team and help us continue to keep Xero secure.
What's the role?As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll be hands-on solving problems at scale in a massive AWS environment. You’ll become deeply familiar with the capabilities of our vendors to build and support modern and adaptable security services that will delight our customers. We run mission-critical infrastructure, and you’ll build resilient and scalable systems. Automation will be the standard for you, and you’ll seek new and interesting ways to reduce our operational overheads. Most importantly, you’ll be a team player and get to work with an awesome group of engineers in an amazing and unique working environment.

What you'll do:

• Ensure Xero Platform Identity and Access solutions are deployed and managed in a repeatable, reliable manner.
• Be responsible for deployments which will include improving current processes and have a strong understanding of Continuous Integration/Delivery.  
• Develop software and automation as agreed with the team. 
• Administrate and work to automate AWS services like IAM, AWS SSO, Organizations, Code Pipeline S3, Lambda, EC2.  
• Develop and maintain documentation.  
• Work with the Xero Security Teams and Production Platform services to ensure that any escalated incidents and problems are resolved in a timely and comprehensive manner.  
• Proactively anticipate security platform operational issues and develop preventative measures.  
• Participate in the 24/7 oncall roster as required.
• Maintain awareness of the changing security landscape within Xero.  
• Help Xero Product teams effectively use Identity and Access solutions.  
• Work on service requests and incidents in the Identity and Access team’s ticketing system.  
• Be approachable and professional.
• Encourage, assist and coach other team members.

What you'll bring

• Relevant engineering experience building and deploying solutions in a production environment on a public cloud.
• A proven ability to communicate and coach a growth mindset, and associated Security engineering skills.
• Ability to coach and mentor team members.
• Familiarity with Javascript Frameworks like React and Node.
• Ability to write code in Python.  
• Ability to understand and write scripts.
• Understanding of DevOps and Agile practices.
• A solid grasp of networking and system administration fundamentals.
• A good understanding of network security principles.
• Ability to independently take ownership of problems and solve them.
• A strong drive to work in a team-oriented and collaborative environment.
• A passion for delivering high quality products to your customers.

Why Xero?
At Xero we support many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions. We offer a great remuneration package including shares plus a range of leave options to suit your well-being. Our work environment encourages continuous improvement and career development and you’ll get to work with the latest technology.  
Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. So, from the moment you step through our doors, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.
Xero strongly encourages employees and contractors to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to work from a Xero office, or engage in any face-to-face Xero business.