Broadcast Reliability Architect - On-Air & Cloud

NBCUniversal; Colorado; Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking a Staff Broadcast Reliability Engineer to join the Video Streaming Engineering group in Centennial, CO. This role supports high-availability on-air systems across on-prem and cloud environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable content delivery and 24/7 on-call readiness.

Ideal candidates will have deep experience with broadcast systems, cloud workflows, and Linux administration, and will own root-cause analysis while coordinating with vendors

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of experience supporting live on-air broadcast, media, streaming, or high-availability production environments.
• Strong troubleshooting across cloud, software, network, hardware, and broadcast systems.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Familiar with broadcast automation systems and on-air reliability concepts.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain high-availability broadcast automation, media, streaming, content management, and digital platform workloads in AWS.
• Lead response and troubleshooting for on-air service issues across software, cloud, hardware, and broadcast automation systems.
• Partner with networking, cloud, software, and vendor teams to resolve complex problems.
• Create reusable infrastructure and configuration patterns for consistent deployments.
• Perform performance analysis, health checks, preventive maintenance, and reliability improvements.
• Implement software upgrades and infrastructure expansion in coordination with internal teams and vendors.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, standards, and change procedures.
• Mentor team members and develop subject matter expertise across key technologies.
• Communicate requirements to peers, remote NBCUniversal sites, stations, and cross-functional teams.
• Participate in off-hours on-call rotation for critical on-air and cloud systems.

Skills

Broadcast engineering

On-air reliability

Cloud AWS

Linux administration

Networking

Video/IP distribution

Broadcast automation

Vendor coordination

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Education

BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent

Tools

Grass Valley Morpheus

Evertz VistaLink

Grass Valley iControl

SRT/Zixi

AWS

Job description

NBCUniversal is seeking a Staff Broadcast Reliability Engineer to join the Video Streaming Engineering group in Centennial, CO. This role supports high-availability on-air systems across on-prem and cloud environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable content delivery and 24/7 on-call readiness.

Ideal candidates will have deep experience with broadcast systems, cloud workflows, and Linux administration, and will own root-cause analysis while coordinating with vendors