Platform Manager, Cdn - Surry Hills, Australia - News Corp Australia

News Corp Australia

Verified Company

Surry Hills, Australia

1 week ago

Posted by:

Olivia Brown

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Description

What's the role?

Reporting to the General Manager of Digital Publishing Technology, you will own the end-to-end delivery and operation of News Corp Australia's CDN (Content Delivery Network) platform (Akamai) that ensures secure, high performance delivery of content across almost 100 sites viewed by around 16 million customers and users monthly.

You will be the focal point for the management of the Akamai platform by working closely with our digital product teams, internal IT platform teams, delivery management and of course third party vendors ensuring that the business can evolve to support the organisation's current and future business strategies.

You will lead a specialist team alongside our vendors to ensure the ongoing evolution, stability and commercial optimisation.

Work closely with stakeholders, including our Product teams and vendors to collect, prioritise and deliver on business initiatives
Manage the Akamai vendor relationship for News Corp Australia in collaboration with Global teams, ensuring mutual outcomes from the partnership
Own the commercial & budget management for Akamai platform
Develop a strategically aligned roadmap across both project and BAU, and deliver on those agreed roadmaps
Lead a small specialist team of developers / configuration and support experts (potential matrix)
Establish a continuous cycle of platform improvements that enhance reliability and operation
Oversee incident & problem management, executed by service management teams

Who are you?

Experience in a similar role, with the appropriate technical background
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevant discipline
Project and change management experience in software development required
Experience or interest in delivering in Agile environments
Stakeholder and vendor communication & management
Experience in delivery management, process engineering and IT service management
Developer and configuration management
Understanding of the SDLC using Agile processes and methodologies
Experience with Akamai
Experience with javascript (desirable)
Experience with automation and CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) (desirable)

Who are we?

In an evolving media industry our brands continue to drive the story and influence the agenda - 7.4 million Australians read one of our national, metro or regional paid daily titles a week.

We are proud to be the greatest storytellers in Australia.

Our products are innovative and dynamic, constantly adapting to new challenges and pioneering the way forward to lead the market.

A fast paced and ever changing environment requires adequate, robust and reliable business systems and process which play a vital part in our success.

What's in it for you?

News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities.

Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia.

Our benefits include:
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Exclusively ours

Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family

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Health & wellbeing

Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies

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Time off:

News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.

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Helping you grow

Development opportunities and recognition

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Financial wellbeing

Support on making the most of your money

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Perks & discounts

Exclusive offers across a range of products and services

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Giving back

Make a difference to our communities.
We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their wholeselves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know._