Total 30 job vacancies by Nine

Australia's leading broadcast video on demand platform 9Now offers a destination for consumers around Australia to catch up on their favourite programs anywhere, anytime, on the device of their choosing.

We have a vacancy in our North Sydney office for an Associate Software Engineer with 9Now.

The CTV (Connected TV) Web team is a primarily front-end agile software development team
building the "Future of Television". Our core responsibility is building Nine’s suite of applications that
run on web TVs (Samsung, LG and Hisense). We're at the forefront of 9Now’s strategy with
unprecedented growth in Smart TV, set-top box usage across Australia.

Day to day:

• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional teams to plan, design, develop and test solutions.
• Work across our predominantly web-based tech stack (Typescript and JavaScript), particularly utilising React.

The Commercial Products team manages a fleet of custom-built systems that perform critical functions for our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance, and Presentation teams. These systems allow us to sell ads into our linear broadcast schedules and manage all revenue associated with broadcast.

Your expertise will help enhance our CRM capabilities and drive business efficiencies.

• Design, develop, and maintain Salesforce applications in Salesforce media cloud

• Collaborate other developers in the Commercial Products team to ensure changes, data models and integrations to other systems maintains a consistent level of technical standards set by the team.

• Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to associate and mid level engineers.

• Strong focus on security practices

• Developing and maintaining system architecture and documentation

• Participate in and, when required, facilitate team ceremonies

• Work with other engineers to peer review code, work through problem-solving, advise on best practices and help to champion a high standard of excellent

• Strong data management skills to ensure performant data operations and adherence to agreed data model designs.

• Stay updated with the latest Salesforce releases and industry trends to recommend enhancements and new features

Australia's leading broadcast video on demand platform 9Now offers a destination for consumers around Australia to catch up on their favourite programs anywhere, anytime, on the device of their choosing.

We have a vacancy in our North Sydney office for a Software Engineer with 9Now.

The 9Now Web team is a primarily front-end agile software and streaming development team building the "Future of Television". Our core responsibility is building, testing, securing and maintaining 9now.com.au. We're at the forefront of 9Now’s strategy, creating a responsive, performant, accessible user experiences for viewing 9Now content in mobile, tablet and desktop browsers.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional teams to plan, design, develop and test solutions.
• Work across our web-based tech stack (Typescript and JavaScript), particularly utilising React (including Next.js, Styled Components, Jotai state management, Jest and Testing Library React, Playwright, hosted in Docker on AWS infrastructure).
• Develop our streaming video stack and its accompanying analytics and observability.

The Broadcast Audio and Comms Support Engineer role focuses on supporting audio and communications systems that deliver media across TV, streaming platforms, mobile, radio, and print, covering sports, news, and entertainment. 

Responsibilities include system support for stakeholders reliant on Broadcast Technology services, along with contributing to knowledge transfer, documentation, and user training. The role is part of a dynamic team that values innovation and encourages creative ideas to advance broadcasting operations in Australia.

Day to day you will: 

• Provide prompt, in-depth technical support of Broadcast systems and services.
• Manage the lifecycle of all incidents of assigned Broadcast systems and services.
• Provide assistance to all other Broadcast Technology teams as directed.
• Take ownership of the design, implementation and support of assigned Broadcast systems and services.
• Manage the lifecycle of all incidents, requests, change initiatives and system upgrades of assigned Broadcast systems and services.
• Meet regularly with stakeholders to develop and adapt workflows, systems and services to meet business objectives.
• Act as a role model and mentor to all team members and stakeholders.

This role will require you to be available to support systems and services as required - out of hours, weekend and on-call work may be required.

The Cloud Operations Team are central to how Nine uses cloud technology, and are the primary point of contact within the Platforms function regarding anything cloud. You’ll be leading from the front in building out Nine’s cloud security posture and policies, monitoring and alerting tooling, as well as managing cost controls (FinOps) and vendors. 

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.

Day to Day, you will: 

Enabling your team:

• 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

Technical Leadership:

• 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

Drive high performance:

• 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

The Platform Solutions Team are central to how Nine deploy workloads to the cloud. You’ll be leading from the front in building out Nine’s cloud infrastructure to deliver the content that Australia loves.

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.

Day to Day, you will: 

Enabling your team:

• 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

Technical Leadership:

• Drive adoption of best practice and best in class technology for workload management using Kubernetes (especially EKS)
• 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

Drive high performance:

• 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

Data Engineering builds and manages the pipelines, applications and infrastructure for collecting, processing, and storing Nine’s data. We are responsible for collecting hundreds of millions of events from client devices each day and streaming them directly into our data warehouse. We extract data from the majority of Nine’s enterprise systems, centralise it in our data warehouse, and create rich data models for analysis and to inform business operations and strategy.

The team is also responsible for building solutions to surface data to users including dashboards, Slack integrations and automated static reports, as well as providing data feeds to downstream systems for personalising audience experiences and commercialisation.

• Design, develop and maintain data pipelines that extract, load and transform data from various sources into the data warehouses.

• Design and implement data models that align with business requirements and support efficient querying and analysis.

• Ensure the pipelines are reliable, scalable, and efficient, considering factors including data volume, velocity, and variety.

• Implement data quality checks and validation processes to maintain accurate and reliable data.

• Set up monitoring and alerting to proactively identify and resolve issues.

• Perform root cause analysis for incidents and implement corrective actions.

• Contribute to the technical design and vision for the data platform.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.

• Communicate technical concepts and solutions effectively to non-technical stakeholders.

• Stay updated with emerging data engineering technologies and trends, and evaluate their potential benefits for the organisation's data ecosystem.

The Commercial Products team manages a fleet of custom-built and off the shelf systems that perform critical functions for our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance and Presentation teams, which make it possible for us to sell and traffic ads. In other words, our systems manage all revenue associated with broadcast today and progressively into digital.

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Technical Platform Manager with a strong focus on industry cloud solutions to lead and manage our Salesforce platform initiatives. This role is pivotal in driving digital transformation across the organization, leveraging Salesforce's industry-specific clouds. The ideal candidate will possess a robust technical background, in-depth knowledge of industry cloud offerings, people leadership and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Role responsibilities:

• Architecture owner for the Salesforce platform ensuring designs, security and technical requirements are met in a best practice manner. Work with engineering leadership to identify opportunities to improve practices and processes around engineering and delivery, and assist with the implementation and upkeep of these practices
• Help develop and maintain a strategy to deliver on business goals via system improvements and new functionality
• Lead and grow a team of engineers, working in ways that align with Nine’s values
• Drive efficiency and effectiveness in the teams change, builds and deployment approaches
• Participate in and, when required, facilitate team ceremonies.
• Feed into the product roadmap, especially by identifying opportunities for technical improvement that will deliver business value via improved reliability, performance, and efficiency.
• Overseeing the maintenance and ongoing governance on the platforms 

As a leader, you will:

• Manage team according to a strategic framework of business outcomes and key responsibilities
• Ensure employee engagement via one-on-ones and other opportunities to help manage performance and career progression

You’ll be joining a close and dynamic Agile squad that’s all about pushing the boundaries of our award-winning (Global Media Awards winners - Best New Technology or Digital Product in the prestigious INMA Global Media Awards 2020) in-house Editorial CMS, INK . Picture a close knit team of tech enthusiasts, always working together to learn new skills, overcome challenges, and constantly seek opportunities to improve our apps using the latest tech trends.

We believe “Every minute wasted in an inefficient platform is a minute that could be spent making journalism worth subscribing to — so we built INK to maximize efficiency for our complex newsrooms.”

You’ll be at the forefront of revolutionizing the editorial experience through our next-generation news planning in the content management applications, meticulously crafted with React.js & Node.js. Our playground extends to innovative realms like AWS, Kubernetes, and microservice architecture APIs with Go (Golang), offering ample opportunities for growth and exploration in the latest tech trends.

You’re confident in using either Golang / Java  and are excited by the thought of deep diving into Golang / Java and web development. You enjoy being challenged and take delight in overcoming technical obstacles, and your passion for quality engineering drives you to continually improve your craft and learn new and effective ways of doing things.

What you'll be doing:

• Build and maintain high-quality,  auto-scaling microservices & APIs servicing our huge web and app audiences
• Work alongside distinguished engineers within small autonomous Agile squads contributing to the architectural decisions and overall system designs
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• Conduct code reviews to maintain code quality and ensure industry best practices
• Collaborate with other technology teams and business stakeholders to build the best product experience
• Embrace cross-skilling across DevOps, Security, Testing and Architecture
• Work with the latest technologies like Golang, AWS, Google Cloud, gRPC, Postgres, Kafka, Docker, GraphQL and many more
• Continuously learn and improve on your skills and share it with other engineers

The Data Platform team designs, builds, and maintains the tooling and cloud infrastructure for our data teams, enabling data-informed decision making, highly engaging consumer experiences and effective commercial products.

Our team’s focus is on creating scalable, reusable apps that support core data engineering activities, including workflow orchestration, data transformation, and integrations. We also develop automations and guardrails to enhance data engineering productivity, security, long-term maintainability, ensure quality and improve our operational resilience.

We strive for a safe, collaborative and fun engineering culture that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.

The Commercial Products team manages a fleet of custom-built systems that perform critical functions for our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance and Presentation teams, which make it possible for us to sell and traffic ads into our linear broadcasts schedules. In other words, our systems manage all revenue associated with broadcast.

You’ll be joining a new team as a part of a key piece of CRM integration work within our sales systems - day to day you’ll be working with AWS, developing API’s, and ensuring an overall robust integration.
 

• Design, develop, and maintain integration flows using various platforms, APIs, databases, protocols, and data formats.
• Collaborate with and review code from other developers in the Commercial Products team to ensure each integration maintains a consistent level of technical standards set by the team.
• Implement and enforce robust security practices, including knowledge of OIDC/OAuth.
• Develop and maintain system integration architecture and comprehensive documentation.
• Participate in and, when required, facilitate team ceremonies.
• Work with other engineers to peer review code, solve problems, advise on best practices, and uphold high technical standards.
• Mentor engineers in cloud development practices, with a focus on AWS.
• Ensure performant database operations, particularly with SQL Server, Redis, and PostgreSQL.

The Commercial Products team manages a fleet of custom-built systems that perform critical functions for our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance and Presentation teams, which make it possible for us to sell and traffic ads into our linear broadcasts schedules. In other words, our systems manage all revenue associated with broadcast.

You’ll be joining a new team as apart of a key piece of CRM integration work within our sales systems - day to day you’ll be working with AWS, API’s, and ensuring an overall robust integration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for API testing using Postman or similar tools.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and other QA team members to understand requirements and design effective test cases.
• Perform thorough testing of APIs, web services, and cloud-based solutions hosted on AWS.
• Develop and execute test plans, scenarios, scripts, and procedures.
• Identify, document, and track defects using established processes.
• Ensure the software meets the highest standards of quality, performance, and reliability.
• Continuously improve the automation framework to enhance test coverage and efficiency.
• Stay up-to-date with industry best practices, tools, and technologies in QA automation.

Job Description

The Commercial Products team manages a fleet of custom-built systems that perform critical functions for our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance and Presentation teams, which make it possible for us to sell and traffic ads into our linear broadcasts schedules. In other words, our systems manage all revenue associated with broadcast..

In your role as a people leader your focus will be removing blockers, breaking down silos, and championing an iterative, DevOps mindset. You are also comfortable working with a variety of technical and non technical stakeholders.
 

Role responsibilities:

• Work with engineering leadership to identify opportunities to improve practices and processes around engineering and delivery, and assist with the implementation and upkeep of these practices
• Help develop and maintain a strategy to deliver on business goals via system improvements and new functionality
• Participate in and, when required, facilitate team ceremonies.
• Feed into the product roadmap, especially by identifying opportunities for technical improvement that will deliver business value via improved reliability, performance, and efficiency.
• Focus on team engagement and culture

As a leader, you’ll: 

• Manage team according to a strategic framework of business outcomes and key responsibilities
• Employee engagement via one-on-ones and other opportunities to help manage performance and career progression
• Help progress your team members’ careers by identifying development and growth opportunities

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.

We build solutions that bring data to life for users, including dashboards, Slack integrations, and automated reports. We also provide data feeds to downstream systems to personalise audience experiences and drive commercial outcomes.

We have a great opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer to join an Agile Squad that operates at the cross-section of Nine’s Streaming services and data products. 9Now is Australia’s leading broadcast video-on-demand platform, accounting for almost half of all BVOD minutes viewed across our apps. Data plays a critical role in the streaming value chain through the collection of audience metrics which inform broadcast ratings and underpin commercialisation efforts on 9Now. 

As a Senior Data Engineer you will;

• Be the VoZ and Total TV SME for the Streaming data squad

• Design and implement data models that meet business needs and enable efficient querying and analysis.

• Develop and maintain data pipelines to extract, load, and transform data into data warehouses.

• Ensure pipelines are reliable, scalable, and efficient, considering data volume, velocity, and variety.

• Implement data quality checks to maintain accuracy and reliability.

• Set up monitoring and alerting systems to proactively resolve issues.

• Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions for incidents.

• Contribute to the technical design and vision of the data platform.

We’re entering an exciting time of business investment, and you’ll have the opportunity to work with the team responsible for greenfield & existing customer facing features for some of the most highly visited media websites in Australia such as Sydney Morning Herald, The Age as well as Lifestyle brands Good Food and Traveller. We use a brand new, entirely cloud-first modern tech stack, with a fully automated, Slack-integrated CI/CD DevOps environment. We craft world-class high performance, high availability, web applications in small autonomous Agile squads.
 

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Engineer with a strong background in web development and expertise in React 18, GraphQL and NodeJS. As a Senior Engineer, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect, design, and implement web applications that are not only visually stunning but also performant, responsive, and user-friendly. You also enjoy mentoring and coaching other team members. You are also the one who takes pride in improving squad level practices and standards.

Ideally you are a Frontend-focused Full Stack Engineer , with a broad understanding across a range of technology.

Responsibilities:

• Scoping and breaking down project into engineering deliverables
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect, design and implement visually stunning websites
• Utilise your in-depth knowledge of React to build scalable and high-performance website
• Collaborate with designers to turn design mockups into fully functional, responsive websites
• Write clean, maintainable and well-documented code while following best practices and coding standards
• Write unit and integration tests
• Improve squad level practices and standards by staying current on emerging trends
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers, sharing your expertise and knowledge of software development

You’ll be joining a close and dynamic Agile squad that’s all about pushing the boundaries of our award-winning (Global Media Awards winners - Best New Technology or Digital Product in the prestigious INMA Global Media Awards 2020) in-house Editorial CMS, INK . Picture a close knit team of tech enthusiasts, always working together to learn new skills, overcome challenges, and constantly seek opportunities to improve our apps using the latest tech trends.

We believe “Every minute wasted in an inefficient platform is a minute that could be spent making journalism worth subscribing to — so we built INK to maximize efficiency for our complex newsrooms.”

You’ll be at the forefront of revolutionising the editorial experience through our next-generation news planning in the content management applications, meticulously crafted with React.js & Node.js. Our playground extends to innovative realms like AWS, Kubernetes, and microservice architecture APIs with Go (Golang), offering ample opportunities for growth and exploration in the latest tech trends.

You’re confident using ReactJS and are excited by the thought of deep diving into React and web development. You enjoy being challenged and take delight in overcoming technical obstacles, and your passion for quality engineering drives you to continually improve your craft and learn new and effective ways of doing things.

The Engineering Practices department sets and maintains the standards of engineering excellence used by all our teams across our diverse software engineering and technology department of over 400 staff. The department encompasses software architecture, agile practices and ways of working, quality processes, including “shift-left” initiatives and defensive security engineering.

This role manages Practice Leads across four main disciplines of Software Architecture, Agile Delivery, Quality & Security. Each Practice is a center of excellence that drives best practice, consistency in execution and creates a continuous improvement culture across each specialty.

At Nine Technology we strive for People and Engineering excellence in the way we deliver on our projects and platforms. As the Head Of Engineering Practices you’ll be leading the team setting the standards that guide our delivery teams. You will enable our teams to operate effectively, secure, design and deliver systems while continuously improving Engineering Practices.

This role is based out of Nine’s North Sydney Office, with an expectation to be in the office at least 3 days a week. 

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead the software engineering standards function with your previous experience building, designing and developing highly available, high traffic websites & systems.
• Use your DevOps & Cloud experience and communication skills to drive consensus across Nine to continue building our common application delivery platform using Kubernetes in AWS.
• Develop and own Nine Technology standards for Engineering platforms and systems, integrating legacy platforms, current and emerging patterns and systems.
• Create guidelines and procedures for Nine Technology teams to ensure solutions meet agreed and required standards.
• Create and maintain a maturity level framework to provide consistent and structured development helping teams across Nine to continuously improve.
• Use your leadership skills to inspire and empower the four Practice Leads to drive change and improvement across each of their practice disciplines.

Nine uses a variety of Cloud providers to provide content to its audiences. We operate a large number of AWS accounts which are used directly by a variety of business users and Product Engineering teams in order to meet business goals.

We are looking for a experienced Platform Engineer specialising in AWS Services to assist us in managing the lifecycle of our Cloud provider accounts and service usage within them. We are in the process of a large scale Control Tower implementation which seeks to:

• Improve our overall Cyber security observability, posture for the accounts and its related services

• Assist the business in consuming Cloud services in a secure, repeatable manner and ensure standards are compliant and supported “as a product”

• Assist in the Network plumbing between accounts and on-premise infrastructure using Transit Gateway

Join our cyber security team and be part of transforming our digital experience and delivering innovative capabilities for Nine.  We offer a flexible working environment in a culturally diverse and high functioning team. 

This is an expansion of the Cyber Security Engineering team, focused on managing End User risk - configuring, maintaining, and continuously improving cyber security tools such as Cloud Access Security Broker, Zero Trust Network Access, Cloud DLP, Secure Web Gateway, Endpoint Privilege, and EndPoint Management. This will include reviewing and improving monitoring and access controls for other critical SaaS services such as Google Workspace, Slack, JIRA, Confluence.

You will work alongside other members of the Cyber Security Engineering team who are responsible for researching, architecting and implementing Cyber Security capabilities for the Nine group.

This role will also be exposed to other Cyber Security tools, including endpoint privilege, vulnerability management and identity tools amongst others.

The Cyber Security Support Engineer plays a crucial role in safeguarding Nine’s critical systems and data by overseeing key controls that protect Nine’s data and content.  This role involves maintaining and tuning robust policy settings that control access to key applications and portals, managing access to applications, troubleshooting cyber security application issues and responding to service interruptions and incidents. 

This role will also assist the team in performing other key security functions such as vulnerability management, help coordinate vulnerability remediation efforts, and ensure continuous improvement of security posture. Other cyber security engineering tasks involve product evaluation and implementation, risk management and security incident response. 

Key accountabilities of this role is to:

• Implement, configure, and maintain endpoint solutions to securely manage, monitor, and control access.

• Define and enforce policies and procedures for the management of endpoints ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.

• Conduct regular reviews and assessments to identify and remediate security risks related to SWG, CASB and DLP.

• Monitor and audit privileged activities, ensuring compliance with policies and promptly addressing any anomalies or security incidents.

• Conduct regular vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and security scans on systems, networks, and applications to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses.

• Stay informed about emerging threats and vulnerabilities by monitoring security advisories, research reports, and threat intelligence sources.

• Translate threat intelligence into actionable insights for managing end user risk

In your role as Engineering Manager, you’ll be leading the web engineering team responsible for one of our most valuable subscription products, The Australian Financial Review. You’ll play a vital role in helping your team grow their skills professionally while delivering the product & technology roadmap for the authoritative brand on business, finance and investment news in Australia.

Deliver business/audience value

• Partner with key stakeholders to translate business goals and requirements into effective engineering solutions & deliverables 
• Drive the continuous improvement of squad processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability

Technical Leadership

• Drive adoption of best practice and ensuring engineering decisions align with the project and product engineering strategy
• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
• Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed
• Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff

Drive high performance

• Establish and maintain a highly motivated and high performance team culture through one on one feedback, mentoring, coaching and performance management
• Maintain high quality standards for yourself and software engineering practices of your team
• Effectively lead people processes including the hiring of new talent 

We have a brand new, modern tech stack entirely cloud-first with a fully automated, Slack integrated CI/CD DevOps environment and we need more engineers to take it to the next level.

Are you looking for a driven, diverse and collaborative hybrid work environment? Would you like to work with amazingly talented colleagues in a business with the scale of a major media company? We'd love to talk with you, so apply today.

What you'll be doing

• Building cutting edge microservices using the latest technologies like Golang, gRPC, Redis, Docker, and GraphQL

• Working in small autonomous Agile squads

• Providing mentorship to other back end developers, particularly in Golang space

• Upskilling across DevOps, React and other areas of our stack.

What technologies you'll be exposed to;

• Golang

• AWS

• Kafka

• Typescript

• NodeJS

• React

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• GCP

• Concourse

• CI/CD

• Slack

• Prometheus

• Grafana

• ElasticSearch

The Cyber Security team provides governance, audit, control, and operational Cyber Security capabilities to support business and operational objectives of Nine group. Minimising friction and managing appropriate risk are key tenets of the team.  The Security team works closely with the Security Cloud Practice, Product Engineering, Network and Infrastructure and Services teams to collaboratively manage cyber controls.

As the Application Support Engineer, Identity, Governance and Administration (IGA), you will be responsible for managing the identity systems, services and environments.  This is an important role within the cyber security team and will provide an opportunity for someone to contribute to a significant uplift in Nines security posture.  This is a permanent full time opportunity. 

Key accountabilities of this role is to 

• Be accountable for providing the operational support of Nine's identity and access management (IDAM) systems and assist with their ongoing deployment.

• Identify ways to improve performance and stability of the services and applications through continuous improvement and automation.

• Collaborate with Nines IDAM stakeholders and contribute to the deployment and improvement plans for the Identity roadmap.

• Work closely with the SOC, functional and technical teams to provide timely resolution of level 2 and 3 identity related incidents and problems.

• Work with application owners to assess and prioritise their readiness to be on-boarded to the identity and access management system and lead the onboarding.

• Perform user access reviews to ensure the principle of least privilege is enforced throughout the organisation.

• Work closely with the cyber risk team to enforce access control policies, standards and guidelines.

The Commercial Products team manages a fleet of custom-built systems and third party product integrations  that perform critical functions for our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance, Programming and Presentation teams, which make it possible for us to sell and traffic ads into our linear broadcasts schedules. In other words, our systems are core business critical systems that manage all revenue associated with broadcast.

You’ll be leading an organisation made up of 4 squads, each with its own engineering manager, software engineers, quality engineers, and iteration manager. The immediate focus of the role will be on the continued improvement and scalability/reliability of existing systems, longer term you’ll contribute to building the next-gen of Nine’s sales, advertising management, and revenue systems. 

At Nine Technology we strive for People and Engineering excellence and culture in the way we deliver on our work. As a senior technology leader you’ll have the opportunity to not only lead your teams in the way they effectively operate and deliver but you’ll be a leader helping Nine to continuously evolve and grow its Product and Engineering culture and capabilities. 

Role responsibilities

• Ensure scope and architectural directions are clear for products and ensure smooth roll-out and integration of projects
• Lead a technical team, working to guide and grow technically strong individuals, being able to give them acute feedback to help them in their technical challenges, whilst still giving them freedom to innovate their own ideas
• Work with engineering leadership to identify opportunities to improve practices and processes around engineering and delivery, and assist with the implementation and upkeep of these practices
• Work closely with Product Management on continuous improvements to existing systems, with a focus on improved reliability, performance, and efficiency.
• Lead development and maintain a strategy to deliver on business goals via system improvements, new functionality and platforms.
• Being involved and helping to coach and mentor teams delivering in Agile
• Ability to plan, organise and lead teams to deliver consistently on project and release commitments.
• Manage 3rd party partners, commercials, contracts and budgets. Ensure contract commitments are met.
• Ability to manage key senior business stakeholder relationships to ensure a  successful technology partnership
• Support development of business cases to further business improvements
• Responsible for developing technology investments business cases. 
• Work with engineering leadership to identify opportunities to improve practices and processes around engineering and delivery, and assist with the implementation and upkeep of these practices
• Help develop and maintain a strategy to deliver on business goals via system improvements and new functionality
• Support production systems - we believe in 'you build it, you support it'.
• Manage overall team and vendor budgets to target.

In your role as Senior Software Engineer you'll play a key role in building an exciting greenfield project to deliver our digital audio strategy while also helping maintain and evolve our existing set of applications. 

You’ll be crafting world-class high performance mobile and web applications & interfaces while actively working to build your skills in React Native.

This role suits someone who is interested in working across both web and mobile, with a primary focus on mobile development using React Native. You should be willing to deep dive into other areas including Swift and Kotlin (within the context of a React Native app).

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 and The Australian Financial Review, as well as their content management systems, services and middleware.

You'll be working as apart of the Nine Web team, who are responsible for Nine.com.au, Wide World of Sports (WWOS), 9Honey, and many more.

You'll contribute to upcoming re-platforming work, aiming at improving the digital experiences we deliver to our audience. This is apart of an overall shift in technology aimed at improving customer experience - we are looking to standardise the approach across different sites.

Day to day responsibilities: 

• Crafting world-class high performance high availability web applications & interfaces
• Writing high quality TypeScript / ReactJS / Node.js / Styled Components, and mentor the broader technical team around best practice,
• Working in small autonomous Agile squads, taking ownership of asects of the product or key deliverables as apart of a sprint.
• Building the next generation news experience for a huge audience