Platform Engineer

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.

Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.

Our Purpose: We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.

We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.

Nine uses a variety of Cloud providers to provide content to its audiences. We operate a large number of AWS accounts which are used directly by a variety of business users and Product Engineering teams in order to meet business goals.

We are looking for a experienced Platform Engineer specialising in AWS Services to assist us in managing the lifecycle of our Cloud provider accounts and service usage within them. We are in the process of a large scale Control Tower implementation which seeks to:

• Improve our overall Cyber security observability, posture for the accounts and its related services

• Assist the business in consuming Cloud services in a secure, repeatable manner and ensure standards are compliant and supported “as a product”

• Assist in the Network plumbing between accounts and on-premise infrastructure using Transit Gateway

You will have a passion for automation and take Cyber Security and Cloud Infrastructure seriously. You will have a strong “customer first” mentality and be comfortable in assisting first time Cloud users of all levels. You will have excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

Ideally you are based in Sydney, NSW - but we are open to remote applicants. 

What we would like to see on your resume: 

• AWS certifications, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional highly regarded

• Extensive experience in AWS infrastructure design and management, with a focus on account governance

• Experience provisioning and managing Cloud Services “as code” using: CDK, Terraform, Cloudformation, Saltstack, Ansible etc. via Jenkins, Teamcity, Github Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines etc.

• Experience using a wide variety of AWS products in production environments

• Experience in managing a multi-account AWS environments using the AWS Organisations and ideally Control Tower products

• Demonstrable understanding of the various Security Standards & Controls available within AWS & it’s various products to meet CIS Foundations, PCI-DSS and Foundational Security Best Practices standards

• Comfortable writing in a variety of languages such as: Shell, Python, TypeScript / NodeJS, Ruby & Go

• Exposure and experience with MS Azure and GCP is highly desired

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.