2 months ago
Auckland, New Zealand or Wellington, New ZealandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and operate identity and access controls across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Assess cloud services, risks, and gaps in the current IAM environment.
- Close identity handover gaps and improve IAM, Workload Identity Federation, and self-service capabilities.
- Establish KPI baselines and contribute to design reviews and operational improvements.
- Develop reusable Terraform modules, policy frameworks, automation, and internal tooling for secure access patterns.
- Lead technical design conversations, make sound engineering trade-offs, improve reliability, and mentor engineers.
- Collaborate with security, platform, and product teams to enable secure, rapid delivery.
Requirements
- Solid experience securing at least one public cloud environment: AWS, GCP, or Azure, with willingness to learn the others.
- Understanding of identity and Infrastructure as Code fundamentals.
- Experience designing and maintaining reusable Terraform modules and automation for IAM controls and policy guardrails at scale.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Python.
- Strong software engineering foundations and experience with modern delivery practices.
- Ability to lead technical design discussions, make engineering trade-offs, mentor others, and improve delivery quality.
- Collaborative approach to working across security, platform, and product teams.
- Curiosity about AI applications and openness to exploring their use in engineering workflows.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model based in Auckland or Wellington.
- Flexibility to work from home with connection to modern office spaces during designated boost days.
- Opportunity to work on high-leverage cloud platform security with global scope.
About Xero
Xero builds cloud-based accounting software for small businesses and their advisors, covering invoicing, bank reconciliation, payroll, expenses, and reporting. It sells subscriptions and supports an extensive ecosystem of connected bank feeds and third‑party apps via APIs and an app marketplace. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, Xero is a public company dual‑listed on the NZX and ASX.