Senior Engineer, Platform Engineering

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.