Engineering Manager, Cloud Operations

**Company Description**
Nine. Australia’s Media Company.

Underpinned by our people, our strategic focus is on content, connections and growth.

Driven by our purpose - Australia belongs here - and guided by our values - walk the talk, turn over every stone, keep it human - we are the home of Australia’s most loved content and trusted brands across News, Sport, and Entertainment.

We lead the total television market in Australia through our key brands of Channel 9, Gem, Go, Rush and Life, and of course you can consume all our content, live or on-demand, on Australia’s leading free streaming platform, 9Now. We also own Stan, the market leading local subscription streaming service.

In our total audio business we are building talk radio for the next generation across 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR.

Nine is also an active participant in Australian consumer marketplaces through our majority shareholding in Domain and our ownership of Drive.

The Cloud Operations Team are central to how Nine uses cloud technology, and are the primary point of contact within the Platforms function regarding anything cloud. You’ll be leading from the front in building out Nine’s cloud security posture and policies, monitoring and alerting tooling, as well as managing cost controls (FinOps) and vendors.

You contribute to a learning-oriented workplace culture, being curious about the world
around you, seeking new ways to explore and bring new thinking and practices to bear
within your team. You remain open to learning new technologies and techniques, and finding creative ways to leverage this knowledge to further team goals.

You work in partnership with various product teams and practices enabling them to conduct rapid, stable, secure and repeatable deployments on Cloud and Kubernetes at scale.

You are structured and methodical in your process and have demonstrated skills building and delivering support services for 24/7 systems.

Day to Day, you will:
Enabling your team:

- Assist the team in a hands-on capacity as required
- Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues
- Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed
- Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
- Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability

Technical Leadership:

- Drive adoption of best practice and best in class technology
- Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions
- Always be on the lookout for products, solutions and enhancements which address current or perceived future business problems

Drive high performance:

- Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
- Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
- Participate in hiring and other HR processes affecting your team where needed
- Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance

**Qualifications**
- 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

**Additional Information**
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
We're committed to a safe, respectful and inclusive Nine. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best.

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