Engineering Manager - Cloud Networks

The role

You will run the Networks team in Cloud Capabilities to manage Xero's cloud network, DNS and CDN. You will set the team's direction, deliver against goals, grow engineers, and balance roadmap work with support and incidents.

What you will do

• Set the team's direction
• Deliver against Cloud Capabilities goals for the year
• Grow and support engineers
• Balance roadmap work with support requests and incidents
• Work closely with Product, Security and other Cloud Capabilities teams
• Shape a multi-year network strategy across AWS and edge providers
• Get to know network architecture, risks and support load
• Agree a prioritised roadmap and ways of working with the Head of Engineering
• Reduce reliability and tech-debt risks
• Share support and incident work fairly across the team

Required qualifications

• Experience guiding engineering teams that run production infrastructure, from hiring to performance conversations and career growth
• Solid grounding in cloud networking (VPC, routing, DNS, CDN and load balancing)
• Comfortable setting direction, delivering against roadmaps and OKRs, and handling planned and unplanned work side by side
• Ability to modernise critical infrastructure with care, weighing up priorities and trade-offs
• Ability to build trust with stakeholders and explain thinking clearly in writing

Nice to have

• AWS Advanced Networking Specialty cloud certification
• Formal management training

Before you apply

• Xero uses AI to help screen applications based on job-related qualifications
• A real human recruiter reviews all candidates before any hiring action is taken

About the company

Xero is a company where you can Go Further in running critical infrastructure. The Networks team underpins connectivity, name resolution and content delivery for every Xero product.