The Nine Publishing Technology team continually delivers and maintains premium, market leading digital products, including: smh.com.au, theage.com.au and afr.com.au across multiple platforms and systems.

Software Engineers are responsible for the design, development, and delivery of products and services that delight our customers, and grow the business.

You will be responsible for developing high-quality, scalable and high performing solutions that align to business and technology goals. You will be working with technology leaders and other senior engineers to ensure consistency of our practices and processes across the Publishing Technology team.

Nine's Data Engineering team is on a mission to modernise how we store, consume and process data to derive value from it. We're building and managing cutting-edge pipelines, applications, and infrastructure, handling hundreds of millions of daily events, and crafting rich data models that inform business decisions at every level.

Currently, we're embarking on an exciting journey to migrate our legacy data pipelines and services from AWS to GCP. This is a unique opportunity for a seasoned Data Engineer to play a pivotal role in modernising our data ecosystem, ensuring seamless data flow, and unlocking new possibilities for innovation and growth.

As a Senior Data Engineer specialising in cloud migration, you'll be:

• Analysing and assessing our existing AWS data pipelines and services, identifying areas for optimization and standardisation, and formulating a comprehensive migration plan.
• Collaborating with product and business stakeholders to create a plan for the 'future state', including data sources, sinks and transformations
• Tracing the data lineage to understand how data moves through the system.
• Identifying under-utilised assets that could be retired

Familiarity with the below areas would be beneficial:

• Designing and implementing new data pipelines and infrastructure in GCP, leveraging the platform's full potential for scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
• Adhering to Nine's data standards and industry best practices, ensuring our GCP environment is robust, secure, and primed for future growth.
• Sharing your expertise with other team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and contributing to our collective knowledge and skill set.

Career Opportunities: Infrastructure Engineer (30380)

Why work for us?

A career at Janus Henderson is more than a job, it’s about investing in a brighter future together.

Our Mission at Janus Henderson is to help clients define and achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated insights, disciplined investments, and world-class service. We will do this by protecting and growing our core business, amplifying our strengths and diversifying where we have the right.

Our Values are key to driving our success, and are at the heart of everything we do:

Clients Come First - Always | Execution Supersedes Intention | Together We Win | Diversity Improves Results | Truth Builds Trust

If our mission, values, and purpose align with your own, we would love to hear from you!

Your opportunity

Join a team of engineers that are responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the company's network infrastructure. You will work closely with other IT teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure that the network is reliable, secure, and meets the needs of the organization.

• Maintain a large network, server, and cloud environment

• Close audit findings as identified

• Perform disaster recovery testing

• Participate in team on-call rotation

• Enhance communication channels between APAC business units and global IT teams to ensure seamless operations and support.

• Monitor ticket queues for network, server, and cloud engineering teams, and address or escalate tickets as appropriate.

• Execute changes and updates outside of London and US business hours to support global operations.

• Perform quarterly vendor reviews with key vendors serving the APAC region.

• Provide assistance to server and network teams in managing and supporting the infrastructure across the APAC region.

• Participate in routine maintenance activities and contribute to global business-as-usual (BAU) infrastructure modifications, including the implementation of infrastructure upgrades, application of patches, and adjustments in configurations.

• Lead the execution of disaster recovery testing protocols specific to the APAC region, ensuring readiness and resilience.

• Offer on-call support for addressing critical infrastructure issues that arise

• Commit to attending global team meetings weekly – where possible, outside of regular business hours, to align with different time zones, facilitating better integration and collaboration with the global server and network teams.

• Your role may require you to interact with other JHI offices, employees and third parties based in different time zones, outside of core business hours, such as the UK, USA and rest of APAC.Carry out other duties as assigned

What to expect when you join our firm

• Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations

• Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community

• Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more

• All-inclusive approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• Maternal/paternal leave benefits

• Complimentary subscription to Headspace – the mindfulness app

• All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities

Must have skills

• Proven experience in infrastructure engineering, covering servers, networking, and cloud technologies.

• Ability to work independently with a broad skill set across multiple IT disciplines.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to identify and address user-specific issues in the APAC region.

• Familiarity with managing Cisco UCS servers, VMs in VMware, patching ESXi hosts, extending disk space on servers, performing backups and restores, and ensuring optimal performance of the Citrix environment for APAC users.

• Basic understanding and capability to make firewall changes and manage network configurations.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, essential for working in a global team environment.

• Familiarity with reviewing infrastructure-related invoices, ensuring accuracy and cost-effectiveness in the APAC region.

• Experience in managing incidents and participating in an on-call rotation, demonstrating the ability to handle critical issues efficiently.

• Possess extensive knowledge in various IT domains, including but not limited to servers, networking, VMware technologies, and backup/recovery strategies.

Nice to have skills

• Experience with Cohesity for data management and backups.

• Willingness and ability to travel within the APAC region as needed for the role.

• A proactive approach to seeking out service process improvements and contributing to the design and continuous enhancement of our infrastructure.

• Skills in creating and maintaining technical documentation and training materials, which help streamline processes and knowledge sharing.

• Interest in or current engagement with learning Azure cloud management to broaden cloud infrastructure skills.

• Enhanced system monitoring and alerting capabilities, aiding in the proactive management of the infrastructure.

• A commitment to continuous learning and improvement, showing a dedication to staying abreast of the latest technologies and methodologies in infrastructure engineering.

Potential for growth

• Mentoring

• Leadership development programs

• Regular training

• Career development services

• Continuing education courses

You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm, and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role.

At Janus Henderson Investors we’re committed to an inclusive and supportive environment. We believe diversity improves results and we welcome applications from all backgrounds. Don’t worry if you don’t think you tick every box, we still want to hear from you! We understand everyone has different commitments and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we’re happy to be asked about work flexibility and our hybrid working environment. If you need any reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process, please get in touch and let us know .

Who are we?  

Humanforce’s vision is to make work easier and life better for frontline and flexible workforces. 

Humanforce provides the market leading, best-in-one human capital management (HCM) suite for frontline and flexible workforces - without compromise. Our employee centred, intelligent and compliant HCM suite is highly integrated and composable, and consists of Workforce Management (WFM), HR, Payroll, and Wellbeing.  

Humanforce has built strong foundations since its founding in 2002. We help over 2300 customers and almost 1 million employees under management in 30+ countries, across a wide range of industries, including aged, child and health care; education; hospitality; retail; local government and more. Today, we have offices across Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, North America and the Philippines.

Customers choose Humanforce because we enable them to deliver an exceptional employee experience, build a compelling employee value proposition, and connect the flow of the world’s talent with the growth, productivity and efficiency objectives of frontline and flexible workforces. 

Who you are

We are seeking a dynamic and self-driven Senior Data Engineer with a genuine passion for data and a commitment to achieving impactful results. Armed with a solid technical skill set and exceptional problem-solving abilities, you excel in collaborative settings and relish being part of a diverse team. You confidently take the lead on key data engineering projects and take pride in crafting robust, scalable, and efficient solutions. Your unique talent for merging innovation with practicality positions you as a vital asset in the development of a real-time, customer-focused analytics product.

What you’ll do

• Create and sustain a highly scalable and efficient data warehouse tailored for customer-facing analytics.
• Design, maintain, and deploy dbt core along with dbt pipelines for effective data transformations.
• Craft and execute solid data extraction and loading mechanisms utilising Streamkap.
• Boost the performance of ELT pipelines with a focus on optimising query speeds.
• Establish a robust data governance framework to uphold data quality and consistency.
• Work in close partnership with data scientists, software engineers, DevOps, and DBAs to drive cross-functional initiatives.
• Ensure the integrity, reliability, and security of our data engineering architecture.
• Oversee and troubleshoot data workflows to ensure smooth and uninterrupted operations.

What you’ll need

• At least 5 years of experience in data engineering or a related discipline.
• Adept in SQL and Python.
• Proficient in constructing and managing data pipelines (such as dbt core).
• Familiar with cloud technologies (like AWS).
• Experienced in administering and architecting relational databases.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS cloud services for data engineering and analytics.
• Practical experience in database administration and optimisation techniques.
• Strong grasp of ETL/ELT processes and pipeline development.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities with a knack for independent work as a self-starter.

Some ‘nice to haves’

• A strong background in software engineering or development.
• Proven experience in an Agile environment.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (such as CloudFormation and Terraform) and CI/CD practices (like GitHub Actions) is a definite plus.
• Knowledge of real-time data replication tools and processes.
• A solid understanding of advanced data transformation techniques and strategies for query optimisation.
• Experience in constructing data systems for business intelligence and analytics within enterprise environments.

Our values  

• We are bold  
• We are all in  
• We are customer obsessed  
• We do what we say  
• We are good humans  

Our approach to flexibility  

We are passionate about people making their own decisions about where and when they work. Our aim is to facilitate hybrid working (mix of in the office and from home) where possible to support our people to be effective, empowered, and productive to achieve both their career and personal goals. Because we recognise that working flexibly means different things to different people, flexible working exists in many forms. 

Benefits 

• A flexible working environment  
• The opportunity to be part of a fast-growing tech company   
• A focus on development with access to Go1 learning   
• Paid parental leave and Quarterly Wellbeing Days   
• Employee talent referral scheme (know great people, be rewarded)   
• A fun and friendly culture working with passionate and talented people   
• A work environment where you can genuinely improve the world of work! 

We are a diverse and dispersed organisation and are actively looking to grow our team with individuals from all diverse backgrounds. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, ages, genders, neurodiversity, religions, sexual orientations, and experiences to apply.  

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