Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Content Delivery Network)

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Warner Bros. Discovery as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you will work with global teams to ensure system reliability and performance. This hybrid role involves both remote and in-office work, focusing on automation and innovative solutions to enhance media delivery for iconic brands.

Qualifications

• Experience with FreeBSD or BSD OS.
• Proficient with agile practices, managing multiple priorities.
• Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, log aggregation.

Responsibilities

• Build orchestration systems for managing fleets of servers.
• Design, develop, and deliver software to improve reliability.
• Conduct on-call duties and troubleshoot incidents.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Automation

Troubleshooting

Analytical Skills

Education

BS Degree in relevant fields

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Golang

Python

Job description

Job Description

This job is with Warner Bros. Discovery, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the + business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery... the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are...

When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next...

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world's most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.

Your New Role...

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team members work with our Global Content Delivery teams to deliver exabytes of content for our brands globally. The SRE has a highly skilled combination of engineering and operations skills and is focused on automating and improving operations. Their job is to guarantee system reliability, performance, and supportability with a strong engineering emphasis on building autonomous solutions that deliver value to end-users early, often, & fast. They are central to the reputation and trustworthiness of our services and act as an advocate for engineering best practices. WBD's Global Content Delivery team members are responsible for managing & governing all media delivery infrastructure for Max, D+, CNN, and other WBD brands globally. You will be involved from the initial design phase to deployment and setup of hardware, networking, monitoring, alerting, and logging. The role requires good problem-solving skills and the ability to work across several teams and partner groups. We are looking for candidates who love to learn and can adapt quickly.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• Build orchestration build systems for managing fleets of remotely deployed servers.
• Manage servers globally that help deliver media to our customers for our largest brands, contributing to automation systems that power the control plane for these remote edge sites.
• Work in a full stack environment, from the control plane layer to physical hardware lifecycles.
• Contribute to the entire stack, including the global control plane, hardware revisions, software, networking, OS, and network gear.
• Design, develop, and deliver software and infrastructure to improve reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency.
• Introduce new technology thinking and lead developers to embrace innovative solutions.
• Guide engineers to design, develop, test for reliability, and automate tasks.
• Solve issues related to mission-critical services and automate responses to non-exceptional conditions.
• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
• Engage in capacity planning, service integration, geo-expansion, performance analysis, and system tuning.
• Use rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
• Conduct on-call duties and troubleshoot incidents, automating remediation and documenting optimizations.
• Enable Cloud, DevOps, CI, and monitoring strategies.
• Coordinate with applications teams to meet project requirements (security, performance, scalability, resiliency).
• Build/support/scale high transactional 24x7 environments.
• Collaborate to build deployment automation tools and support network operations.

Qualifications and Experience...

The Essentials:

• Passionate about SRE, DevOps, Automation, and infrastructure platforms.
• Understand hardware-software interactions and datacenter/networking principles.
• Experience with FreeBSD or BSD OS.
• Proficient with agile practices, managing multiple priorities.
• BS Degree in relevant fields or equivalent experience.
• Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, log aggregation, and programming languages like Golang, Rust, C, C++, Python, Bash.
• Experience with AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, and global systems analysis.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and analytical skills.

Desirable:

• Experience in CDN, datacenter, hyperscaler, media, news, or entertainment industries.
• Knowledge of PXE, UEFI, core OS fundamentals, hardware architectures.
• Active participation in industry events.
• Relevant certifications (RHCA, AWS, Azure, VMware, etc.).

#Li-hybrid

Hybrid Working - This role combines remote and in-office work, subject to company policy and agreement with your manager. Changes may occur based on business needs.

How We Get Things Done...

Our guiding principles are central to our operations. Find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ and learn how they influence our daily work. We look forward to discussing them with you.

Championing at WBD

We embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunity. Qualified candidates requiring adjustments or accommodations can visit our accessibility page for support.

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