# Engineering Manager - Cloud Networks

The role & impact You will run the Networks team in Cloud Capabilities, the group that looks after Xero's cloud network, DNS and CDN. You will set the team's direction, deliver against our Cloud Capabilities goals for the year, grow and support your engineers, and balance roadmap work with support requests and incidents. You will work closely with Product, Security and the other Cloud Capabilities teams. The Networks team underpins connectivity, name resolution and content delivery for every Xero product, so your work shapes reliability, security and cost at global scale. Together with your team, you will shape a multi-year network strategy across AWS and edge providers, with real ownership and a clear mandate to modernise. It is a chance to Go Further in running critical infrastructure your way. The team & how they connect You will join a team of seven engineers at a range of levels, reporting to the Head of Engineering, Cloud Capabilities. The team works in fortnightly sprints, shares a support rotation and reviews incidents without blame. Written decisions and open technical debate are part of how we Go Together. Initially, you will focus on Getting to know our network architect

- **Id**: 3851509
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/xero-engineering-manager-cloud-networks>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Melbourne, Australia, Auckland, New Zealand, Sydney, Australia, Wellington, New Zealand
- **Countries**: AU, NZ
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T02:16:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T20:38:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2984
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: HR & Payroll Software, Accounting & Tax Software

## Company

- **Id**: 5206
- **Name**: Xero
- **Domain**: xero.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/xero>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0.053
- **Stale share**: 0.474
- **Repost share**: 0.053
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 33
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Xero** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Australia** — Iso: AU; Kind: country
- **New Zealand** — Iso: NZ; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T03:34:43Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 33
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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