Senior Engineer, Compute & System Administration at News Corp – Bangalore

News Corp

News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and pay-tv distribution in Australia.

Headquartered in New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Bangalore

Full time
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Job Description :

Tile: Senior Compute Engineer (Cloud Windows), Compute Operations

Location: Bengaluru

Working Type: Hybrid ( 3 days mandate in office)

We are looking for a Senior Engineer with advanced Windows server and domain experience combined with cloud support experience to join our EMEA Compute team on a full-time permanent basis.

You will be responsible for managing and maintaining News Corps IT infrastructure systems and services across our AWS & Azure cloud environments. This will cover supporting the day-to-day operations delivered by the internal engineering teams, whilst also supporting new project initiatives and technology solutions. The ideal candidate possesses excellent communication skills, enabling effective dialogue with both technical and non-technical audiences. With at least 7 years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering (AWS or Azure) developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform in a mixed Windows / Linux environment.

Responsibilities

• Uphold and maintain the operational standards and capabilities for cloud-hosted services
• Well-versed in Windows operating systems running as Infrastructure as a Service
• Manage and administer Active Directory services, including user and group management, authentication, and access controls, to ensure secure and seamless identity management
• Develop runbooks and automation for the operational activities to ensure repeatability
• Ensure the relevant AWS & Azure landing zones are maintained to best practice standards and continually align to News Corps minimum standards for operations and security
• Automation of processes and workflows, using tools and technologies in the market place Ansible, Terraform, Git Actions etc
• Operation of underpinning services supporting systems hosted within cloud-hosted / on-prem environments covering all aspects of cloud infrastructure including operating systems, vulnerability management, monitoring, backup, restore.
• Mentor junior engineers and assist in knowledge-sharing initiatives across the compute team.
• Collaborate with the Lead Engineer and team members to execute work programs in line with business and corporate strategies
• Support the security team to ensure the cloud-hosted services maintain an appropriate security posture regarding vulnerabilities and regulatory compliance requirements
• Operating System maintenance - full lifecycle management & security patching
• Improve reliability, availability and performance of the cloud-hosted systems and services
• Provide incident, problem and change support both in and out of working hours as necessary
• Identify process optimisation opportunities and contribute to and support the implementation of proposed solutions
• Create, manage and maintain excellent working relationships with stakeholders across the businesses and with technology partners
• Work with and respond to IT Audit requests

Desirable Experience & Knowledge:

We want to make sure you are set for success, so here are some of the skills and experiences we're keen to see. We understand you might not tick all of them, but we'd still love to hear from you.

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills with an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences
• High emotional intelligence, inspiring team collaboration
• Good experience with AWS or Azure cloud technologies, cloud operations, security concepts, infrastructure as code, networking, storage, virtualisation
• Support and maintain CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions to safeguard privileged accounts, enforce security policies, and strengthen compliance posture
• Experience of automating cloud and server operations with Ansible
• Experience in scripting and programming technologies such as: Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Yaml etc,
• Experience of the ITIL framework and use of associated platforms such as ServiceNow for Change, Incident and Problem management etc
• Hands on experience with AWS or Azure technology services; Identity, Networking, Compute, Storage, Web, Containers, Databases, Serverless, Kubernetes (AKS/ECS)
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence for collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Knowledge of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols, including TCP/IP, HTTP/S, DNS

This job is posted with NTS Technology Services Pvt. Ltd.

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News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and pay-tv distribution in Australia.

Headquartered in New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.