Senior Playout SRE - Cloud, CI/CD, On-Call 24/7

NBCUniversal; Centennial (CO); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking creative engineers to own the maintenance and operation of core Distribution Engineering Playout systems, both on-prem and in the cloud. You will develop automated provisioning, upgrade, and monitoring, and drive release cycles within a fast-paced, on-call team.

Ideal candidates have deep IP video and streaming knowledge, strong Linux and cloud experience, and a proven ability to automate across CI/CD pipelines. Hybrid schedule and office presence required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong experience with IP video, streaming and broadcast technologies.
• 5+ yrs. experience in modern infrastructure deployment and maintenance.
• 5+ yrs. experience with enterprise configuration management tools and automation platforms (e.g. Ansible, Terraform).
• Expert architecting / configuring hosted cloud services (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Expert with networking and cloud-based network environments.
• Expert with containerization & Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD build and deployment practices.
• Experience in administrating Linux environments.
• Must automate-first mindset; automate everything.
• Experience with multiple scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby or Bash).
• Ability to use Agile process for project management, development & tracking.
• Comfortable in fast-paced agile environment with changing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop automated methods to provision, upgrade and monitor Distribution Engineering infrastructure and tools.
• Develop proof of concept deployments for evaluation of products and architectures.
• Identify single points of failure for new/existing systems; propose & deploy more reliable scalable solutions.
• Drive product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging, and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling, monitoring, and change management.
• Mentor SREs on DevOps practices.
• Deploy cloud infrastructure and playout software using CI/CD.
• Interact with automated monitoring infrastructure to ensure healthy environments.
• Create new metrics and monitoring deliverables to improve site reliability.
• Evaluate new software releases for basic reliability and system integration support.
• Develop future products and services for NBCU's IP video distribution environment.
• Lead investigations related to Broadcast issues and report findings to leadership.
• This role requires on-call 24/7 support on rotating shifts.

Skills

IP video

Streaming

Broadcast technologies

DevOps

CI/CD

Linux

Python/JavaScript/Perl/Ruby/Bash

Agile

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

NBCUniversal is seeking creative engineers to own the maintenance and operation of core Distribution Engineering Playout systems, both on-prem and in the cloud. You will develop automated provisioning, upgrade, and monitoring, and drive release cycles within a fast-paced, on-call team.

Ideal candidates have deep IP video and streaming knowledge, strong Linux and cloud experience, and a proven ability to automate across CI/CD pipelines. Hybrid schedule and office presence required.