Job Description

Role - Principal Engineer (Cloud)

Location - Sydney (2 holt Street)

Hybrid - In office 3 days a week

We have an exciting role for a (Infrastructure) Principal Engineer in our Platform Engineering team who will be responsible for helping with the design and development of the AWS and GCP architectures and tooling for protecting business critical data and assets. This position will directly contribute to the overall global enterprise cloud architecture. The Principal Platform Engineer will contribute expertise, embrace emerging trends and provide guidance on best practices across all of News Corp business and technology groups. The position will require the ability to multitask and work independently, as well as work collaboratively with peer and customer teams, some of which are geographically distributed.

This role reports to the Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering within the Global Infrastructure Engineering team.

You will

Help design and deliver engineering approaches, standards and tooling for the relevant platforms as required.

Govern, design, deliver and support engineering tooling platforms that drive best practice and agile ways of working for Service Management

Provide engineering expertise for the appropriate products to contribute to all services, including ownership of backlogs (where appropriate)

Act as a resolver group, participating in incident and problem management for in scope services

Develop strong relationships with customers and peer teams to drive value

Realize opportunities to simplify and consolidate product solutions

Drive the optimum level of automation and instrumentation of the development lifecycle for in scope products

Adopt continuous DevSecOps improvements

Adhere to security and privacy standards, policies and frameworks

Design and build infrastructure as code using industry best practice frameworks such as Terraform and related tooling, and languages such as Python

Drive adoption about all things Cloud Native and an understanding of the GitOps methodology

Be a stickler for efficiency and strive for automation

Provide technical guidance to peers and customers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.

Required Experience

Solid programming experience with a focus on Python.

Minimum 2+ years of Python programming experience required.

In depth experience with core AWS services including VPC, TGW, A|E|NLB, IAM, KMS, EC2, Config, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Lambda, and others.

Minimum 5+ years of AWS experience required.

In depth experience with core Google Cloud services including Compute, IAM, VPC, Cloud Run, and GKE.

In depth experience with Kubernetes, with a focus on Amazon EKS, and associated tooling such as ArgoCD.

In depth experience with monitoring, logging and management tools such as Cloudwatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, Splunk, SumoLogic, and New Relic.

Experience with administering Linux based systems

Experience working with Atlassian products such as Jira and Confluence

Experience in managing code within the SDLC methodology using GitHub

Experience with Jenkins and GitHub Actions

Proven ability to write both customer facing and technical documentation

Experience with cloud-based security vulnerabilities identification and remediation.

Experience working with Agile methodologies

Required Soft Skills:

Strong written and verbal communication skills

The ability to follow assigned tasks to full completion

Show creativity to find the no-obvious solution to a given problem

The ability to hold constructive discussions with fellow team members

The ability to work independently or part of a team as required

The ability to provide training, coaching and mentoring to peers and customers

Additional Desired Skills:

Certifications in Cloud and/or Cross Discipline vendors

Hands on experience in managing networks and network infrastructure in the cloud

Hands on experience with Cloud Custodian

Experience with SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis)

Experience automating Self-Service workflows within ServiceNow

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.