**What's the role?**
Reporting into Digital Publishing Technology, you will own the News Corp Australia business engagement to define priorities and requirements as input to the News Corp Global Technology team for 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 local 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 work in a matrix structure with a specialist Global team alongside our vendors to ensure the ongoing evolution, stability and commercial optimisation.
Work closely with stakeholders, including our Product teams and Global Technology to:
- Act as the engagement manager and funnel for CDN (and related) requirements, to then partner with Global Technology to deliver
- Define the website content publishing strategy relevant to CDN, inclusive of performance and security outcomes
- Shape the roadmap through collecting and prioritising requirements to deliver on business initiatives
- Support estimation, scoping and delivery of relevant major projects
- Collaborate with a specialist team of developers / configuration and support experts in a matrix environment
- Work closely with cyber security and business teams to ensure secure low risk operations
- Work closely with Product teams to monitor and optimise website performance
- Establish a continuous cycle of platform improvements that enhance reliability and operation
- Contribute to the management of the Akamai vendor relationship for News Corp Australia in collaboration with Global teams, ensuring mutual outcomes from the partnership
- Set simplification and configuration standards (i.e. for caching, TTL, image and video)
**Who are you?**
- Stakeholder communication & management
- Delivery management
- Requirements gathering and prioritization
- Process engineering
- Vendor management
- Configuration management
- Understanding of the SDLC using Agile processes and methodologies
- Experience with Akamai or other CDN
- Experience with optimising web performance through network architecture
- Experience with web network security
- Experience with javascript (desirable)
- Experience with automation and CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) (desirable)
- IT service management
**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:
- ** Exclusively ours** - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
- ** Health & wellbeing** - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies
- ** 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.
- ** Helping you grow** - Development opportunities and recognition
- ** Financial wellbeing** - Support on making the most of your money
- ** Perks & discounts** - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services
- ** 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 whole-selves 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._