Platform Engineering & Automation: Support, maintain, and enhance our application hosting and build platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GitHub. Develop automation and tooling using technologies such as Python, Java/Groovy, Go, and Terraform.
Technical Leadership & Best Practice: Lead code reviews and champion engineering best practices across security, performance, maintainability, and testing. Contribute to technical standards and continuous improvement initiatives within the team.
Operational Excellence & Collaboration: Maintain reliable production environments, improve observability and monitoring systems, and respond to proactive and reactive support alerts. Work collaboratively across the Technology department while mentoring and supporting other engineers.
What You'll Love About This Role
Think Big: Work across a broad range of business-critical systems and technologies that have real impact across Global.
Own It: Take responsibility for improving platform reliability, automation, and deployment processes in a modern engineering environment.
Keep it Simple: Solve complex technical challenges using industry-standard tooling and scalable engineering practices.
Better Together: Be part of a collaborative team culture that values code reviews, pair programming, continuous integration, learning, and knowledge sharing.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you'll have:
Built a strong understanding of our existing build and deployment architecture
Contributed improvements to technical solutions and ways of working
Delivered new features, fixes, and platform enhancements
Demonstrated a collaborative approach to problem-solving and delivery
Shared knowledge with the team while continuing to develop new skills
Requirements
Platform & Cloud Engineering Experience: Strong experience solving complex engineering problems across distributed systems, with exposure to AWS and Kubernetes environments
Software Development & Automation Skills: Experience working across the full software development lifecycle with strong coding and automation capabilities
Systems Thinking: Understanding of system architecture and the ability to think end-to-end across platforms and services
Quality Engineering Mindset: Experience writing well-tested, maintainable, secure, and performant code, including infrastructure testing (e.g. Terraform Testing, BDD-style integration tests)
Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in multi-tenant environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
Creating a place we all belong at Global
Benefits
Health insuranceFlexible schedule
Additional Information
Accepting applications until:
3 July 2026
Job Description
Senior Platform Engineer
At Global, we think big, work hard, and never stand still. We're the proud home of the best media and entertainment, driven by our talented and passionate people. Our mission? To make everyone's day brighter - our Globallers, our audiences, our partners, and our communities. Whether we're in the studio, building world-class technology, or securing record Outdoor advertising partnerships, we make sure we're doing it as a team.
Your Role: Senior Platform Engineer
Join our Platform team and help shape the systems that power Global's technology platforms. Working across cloud infrastructures, CI/CD pipelines, and application hosting environments, you'll develop and improve scalable, reliable solutions that support business-critical systems across the organisation.
As a Senior Platform Engineer at Global, you will:
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