Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering

Job Description

When it comes to connecting brands with the passions of Australians, there’s no other media company like Nine.

Nine lives at the intersection of Australia’s best content, conversation and culture.

We are a leading multi-platform media network, engaging an audience of 14 million users across news, business & finance, lifestyle, entertainment & sport.

The Nine Publishing Technology team build and maintain some of the most highly respected and visited websites and mobile apps in Australia, including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review and 9Now, as well as their content management systems, services and middleware.

We operate a paved path product delivery platform with the specific intent of empowering our developers and allowing them to get our products in front of Australia as rapidly as possible.

At the beating heart of this product delivery platform you will find both Kubernetes and the Platform Engineering team, who build and operate a multi-tenant PaaS as well as the surrounding self-service Cloud Integration tooling which makes it such a success.

As an Engineering Manager within Platform Engineering you will play a key role in the Engineering and People Management tasks required to maintain and improve Site Reliability and provide a Platform & DevOps capability at scale to a variety of both Audience and Internal facing Product Development Teams.

You are passionate about your team and their professional development.

You remain engaged in their wellbeing, growing their skillset and assisting them in finding great opportunities to further themselves.

You are keen and capable of being ‘hands-on’, but you make the choice when and if you should be involved. Your experience in this area allows you to provide meaningful support to your team by reviewing work and providing feedback.

Your ‘can-do’ and open customer centred approach makes you approachable to work with.

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.

Agile work & planning practices are second nature to how you operate.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 1+ year in a team or technical leadership role managing people
• 4+ years experience in infrastructure or full stack development in cloud using DevOps practices
• Strong technical knowledge and hands-on development capability in multiple relevant capabilities. (eg. Containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, Cloudformation, Puppet, Golang, NodeJS, Python or others as required by the squad)
• Experience running a team responsible for 24x7, high availability, high volume digital products
• Sound experience in change & incident management practices
• Proven skills creating a high performance team environment
• Managing yourself and your team in a fast changing environment with competing priorities
• A strong understanding of agile development best practices including Scrum and Lean methodologies
• Excellent communication skills

Additional Information

• Career development and quality training
• Up to 16 weeks paid primary carer’s parental leave
• Discounts on lifestyle, entertainment, and leisure memberships, including health insurance, dental and gym
• Access to Future Women – a movement to help women connect, learn and lead through unique content and events.
• Hybrid Working/Flexible working
• Discounts on products and services with corporate partners including Samsung, Apple, JB HI-FI, HP, Hertz Car Hire and TFE Hotels

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