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These innovations will make our rich history accessible to internal creators and new external markets, unlocking diversified revenue streams for Nine.\nIf you want to build cutting-edge tech that preserves national history while pioneering the future of AI-driven media, this is your next career defining move.\nThis is a 12-month contract.\nWhat You Will Do:\nDesign a highly scalable, robust, and performant infrastructure capable of handling the ingestion, processing, and long-term preservation of massive multi-media datasets.\nBuild the foundational software architecture that integrates advanced machine learning capabilities to enrich content, enabling intelligent accessibility and smart discovery features.\nDefine distributed system architectures, and ensure seamless cloud integration.\nAct as a key Senior Engineer mentoring engineering teams and articulating complex architectural decisions to senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders.\nWhat You Will Bring: \n6+ years of progressive experience in software engineering in enterprise-level platforms.\nTechnical expertise in developing and maintaining applications using Golang or Java.\nA proven track record of designing and implementing highly scalable, robust, and performant architectures.\nDeep expertise in cloud infrastructure and services (AWS, GCP, or Azure) to support massive data ingestion, high-throughput processing pipelines, and long-term digital preservation.\nDirect experience designing architectures that successfully integrate machine learning or AI capabilities to enrich content and power new product suites.\nExceptional technical leadership, mentoring abilities, and communication skills.\nDesirable Experience & Skills: \nExperience with Media Asset Management (MAM), digital archiving, video tech, or high-volume content digitisation.\nFamiliarity with media standards, metadata frameworks, and preservation protocols (e.g., PREMIS, METS).\nStrong DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Cloud Run) to optimize cost and performance.\nFamiliarity with information security principles, including manual security assessment methodologies (authenticated and unauthenticated testing).\nAdditional Information\nHow we work\nAt Nine, our flexible work options vary by role and team. 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