Job Description:
Department:
Platform Engineering
Position:
Director Platform Engineering
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 worldwide. The Company
comprises of leading businesses across a range of media, including: news and information
services, digital real estate services, book publishing, digital education, sports programming and
pay-tv distribution.
About The Role
We have an exciting role for a Director of Platform Engineering, who will have the overall
responsibility of the design and development of all cloud and data centre architectures as
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required for the business. The position will contribute expertise, embrace emerging trends and
provide overall guidance on best practices across all of News Corp's business and technology
groups. The position will require the ability to accommodate the global nature of the company,
as the staff and teams within are geographically distributed.
This role reports to the VP of Infrastrastructure Engineering within the Global Platform
Engineering team.
Required Experience
• Deep and proven experience running teams with engineering best practices to deliver
end-to-end solutions
• Deep understanding of security requirements related to specific regulations and
standards
• Programme and project management experience
• Strong stakeholder management expertise
• Leadership skills to drive global initiatives
• Partner management experience
• Deep understanding of the agile process and the proven ability to run scrum teams
• Commercial acumen
Required Technical Experience
• Experience with administering large-scale environments for the enterprise
• Experience with core AWS Cloud services, including VPC, TGW, A|E|NLB, IAM, KMS,
EC2, Config, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Lambda, and others.
• Experience with data centre technologies such as Dell, HP rack and blade systems
• Experience with virtualisation technologies such as VMware VMC/vSphere and ESX
• Experience with core Google Cloud services, including Compute, IAM, VPC, Cloud Run,
and GKE.
• Experience working with container and serverless technology.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and management tools such as Cloudwatch,
Splunk, SumoLogic, StackDriver and New Relic.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL
databases (MongoDB, Redis)
• Experience working with Atlassian products such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience in managing code within the SDLC methodology
• A firm understanding of code source control concepts, in particular using GIT repository
• Proven ability to write both customer-facing and technical documentation
• Proven ability to write user stories
• Experience in cloud-based security vulnerability identification and remediation.
Required Soft Skills:
• The ability to drive creativity through your teams to find the no-obvious solution to a
given problem
• The ability to facilitate constructive discussions and mediate between both internal and
external stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Attention to detail
Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.
Business Area: Dow Jones - Secondees
Job Category: Software Product Engineering
Union Status:
Non-Union role
Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world's top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and Financial News.
This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.
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Req ID: 44010