Nine Hiring for Software Engineer – Video Streaming (Infrastructure) Job at North Sydney, Australia Full Time

Nine’s strategy is to create great content, distribute it broadly and engage audiences and advertisers. We are 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. 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 team builds customer facing features for some of the most highly visited media
websites in Australia, as well as the content management systems and services. We’re using
a brand new, entirely cloud-first modern tech stack, with a fully automated, CI/CD DevOps
environment. We craft world-class high performance, high availability, web applications in
small autonomous Agile squads.

As a Platform Engineer in the Video Team, you will spend your days managing the key
shared components of our modern cloud-based technology stack. Nine Publishing operates with a devops culture and, as such, you will be primarily responsible for continuous improvement to the shared components, and the rewarding role of assisting the talented team of engineers to get their code to production systems reliably.

You will be working in the Video team responsible for overseeing video processing and
publishing workflows. The Video team focuses on building and maintaining video encoding
platforms for on-demand and live streaming workflows along with corresponding integrations with CMS and publishing pipelines. You will be implementing cutting edge features from the ground up that allow 9 to stay on top of the latest in streaming technologies in a rapidly changing industry.

The role involves engineering infrastructure solutions for scale and performance while
providing strong guarantees of availability.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Automate the building of infrastructure in an environment running on AWS providing a Continuous Integration operational environment. Using different technologies all the way from edge through the various caching and API layers
• Work with development and/or application support teams to develop APIs, Scripting, and Deployment strategies to achieve a high level of quality for our products working with team members, respond to security events promptly including repelling attacks and addressing vulnerabilities;
• Ensure that all systems comply with company security policies
• Support the team in keeping all systems documentation up to date and relevant
• Available (on call) as part of a rotating support roster

• Good team player, who takes ownership of ideas and solutions through to delivery
• Analyse failures and identify root causes in a collaborative environment – Own and action solutions
• Think like a programmer
• Keen to automate, writing Infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Familiar with CI/CD tools and process
• Exposure to Docker or Kubernetes
• Strong scripting and coding skills – Node.js, Golang, Python and shell experience is a big advantage
• Contribute to the agile/scrum and test-driven engineering culture with creative problem-solving, collaborative mind

In the greater engineering team, we have intentionally fostered a dynamic working
environment and collaborative team culture. We support individual goals and personal
growth through coaching, mentoring and ongoing training. As part of our commitment to
inclusion we support flexible work schedules and locations.

Additional Information

What you’ll get in return at Nine.

• 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