Engineer, Cloud Operations

**We are looking for a Cloud Operations Engineer 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 5 years of hands-on***experience in cloud engineering (AWS or Azure) developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using***Terraform in a mixed linux or windows environment.**

**Responsibilities**

*Uphold and maintain the operational standards and capabilities for cloud-hosted services**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.**

*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 (Windows & Linux)**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**

*Well-versed in Linux or Windows operating systems running as Infrastructure as a Service**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.