Senior Engineer, Platform Engineering

Job Description :

Location: Sydney

Hybrid: 3 days a week in office

Senior Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

Platform Engineering | Sydney, 2 Holt Street | Hybrid (3 days a week in office)

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team, contributing to the design, build, and ongoing operation of cloud infrastructure that underpins critical business systems across News Corp. This is a hands-on engineering role, you will be embedded in the day-to-day delivery of cloud platforms, writing code, building tooling, and solving infrastructure problems alongside a team of experienced engineers.

You will report to the Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering within the Global Infrastructure Engineering team, and work closely with peer engineers, platform leads, and product teams across the organization.

What You'll Do

Engineering & Delivery

Build, maintain, and improve cloud infrastructure on AWS, with some exposure to GCP.

Write and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform powered by Terragrunt, following team standards and best practices

Develop and maintain automation tooling and scripts, primarily in Python

Contribute to CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins

Operations & Reliability

Participate as a resolver in incident and problem management for in-scope platforms

Monitor and maintain platform health using tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, SumoLogic, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana

Identify and remediate cloud security vulnerabilities in line with team standards and security frameworks

Adhere to security, privacy, and compliance policies as they apply to your work

Collaboration & Communication

Work closely with peer engineers and platform leads, contributing actively in team ceremonies and technical discussions

Write clear technical documentation for the platforms and tooling you work on

Engage with customer teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions that meet their needs

Share knowledge with teammates and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement

What We're Looking For

Core Technical Skills

Solid hands-on experience with core AWS services such as VPC, IAM, Organizations and governance policies

Strong programming ability in Python, with experience writing tooling, automation scripts, or Lambda functions

Practical experience with Kubernetes, particularly Amazon EKS, and associated tooling including ArgoCD and associated GitOps deployment and configuration methods

Experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform, exposure to Terragrunt a bonus

Working knowledge of CI/CD tooling: GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins

Experience administering Linux-based systems

Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling such as CloudWatch, Splunk, SumoLogic, or New Relic

Exposure to GCP services (Compute, IAM, VPC, Cloud Run, GKE): Familiarity expected, deep expertise not required

Process & Ways of Working

Experience working within Agile delivery teams

Comfortable managing work through Jira and Confluence

Experience working within GitHub-based SDLC workflows

Able to write documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences

Soft Skills

Clear written and verbal communication, you can explain what you've built and why

Takes ownership of assigned work and sees it through to completion

Comfortable working independently, and equally effective as part of a team

Approaches problems methodically, and isn't afraid to try a non-obvious solution

Constructive in technical discussions, you can disagree and commit

Nice to Have

Cloud certifications (AWS, GCP, or cross-discipline)

Experience with cloud networking and network infrastructure management

Hands-on experience with Cloud Custodian

Exposure to ServiceNow and self-service workflow automation

About the Team

The Platform Engineering team is part of the Global Infrastructure Engineering function at News Corp. We build and operate the cloud platforms that power media, technology, and data products across the organization. We care about craft, writing good code, building reliable systems, improving ourselves and our tooling, and sharing what we know. If you like working on real problems with a team that takes quality seriously, we'd like to hear from you.

About News Corp

News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The Company comprises of leading businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, digital real estate services, book publishing, digital education, and sports programming and pay-tv distribution.

Reasonable Accommodation

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News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: information services and news, digital real estate services and book publishing. Headquartered in New York, News Corp operates primarily in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, and its content and other products and services are distributed and consumed worldwide. More information is available at: http://newscorp.com.