Senior Platform Engineer

Company Description

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.

Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.

Our Purpose: We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.

We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Platform Engineer who specialises in Observability, primarily focused around the open-source Grafana observability stack. In this role, you will be instrumental in managing the lifecycle of our observability platform, ensuring robust monitoring, logging, tracing and profiling for our applications running on Kubernetes. You will contribute to the architecture, implementation, and continuous improvement of our observability pipeline, enabling teams to monitor and optimise system performance efficiently.:

• Implementing OpenTelemetry within application codebases and managing Otel tooling and services.

• Architect, implement, and manage an observability stack based on Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and other related technologies within a Kubernetes environment.

• Ensure comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing coverage for microservices and Kubernetes clusters.

• Collaborate with development and platform teams to create meaningful dashboards, alerts, and automated incident responses.

• Continuously improve the observability platform for scalability, multi-tenancy, and reliability.

• Support and mentor teams in adopting best practices for instrumentation and monitoring.

• Implement automation and infrastructure-as-code practices for managing observability infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Integrate observability tooling with other cloud services and on-premise infrastructure as required.

• Ensure security and compliance standards are met, focusing on auditability and data integrity within the observability stack.

Qualifications

You will have a strong passion for observability. You will have a strong “customer first” mentality and be comfortable in assisting developers of all levels. You will have excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

• Extensive experience working with Kubernetes, particularly in managing observability for containerised applications.

• Deep knowledge of the open-source Grafana stack, including Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Beyla.

• Experience building and managing observability pipelines in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

• Experience utilising SaaS-based observability platforms such as New Relic

• Strong automation skills and experience with IaC tools such as Terraform and Helm.

• Proficient in scripting and programming languages such as Node, Python, Go, or Shell.

• A customer-first mentality, with strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Experience supporting development teams with production monitoring and root cause analysis.

• AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications are highly regarded.

Additional Information

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Work rights: Please note to apply for this role you must already have the right to lawfully work and live in Australia.

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