Senior Playout SRE - Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking creative engineers to own the engineering, operations, support, deployment and maintenance of core Distribution Engineering Playout systems, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Responsibilities include provisioning automation, evaluating products, driving CI/CD, and mentoring SREs, with on-call 24/7 support on a rotating shift. Hybrid schedule with in-office presence required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ yrs. experience in modern infrastructure deployment and maintenance.
• 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.
• Automate-first mindset; automate everything.
• Proficient in scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby, Bash).
• Ability to use Agile process for project management, development & tracking.
• Comfortable in fast-paced agile environments.

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 reliable scalable solutions.
• Drive product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging, and production environments; integrate CI/CD tooling, monitoring and change management.
• Mentor SREs on best DevOps practices.
• Deploy cloud infrastructure and playout software using CI/CD methodologies.
• 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 systems integration support.
• Develop future products for NBCU's IP video distribution environment.
• Lead investigations related to Broadcast issues; report findings to leadership.

Skills

IP video

Streaming technologies

Cloud infrastructure

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux administration

Scripting languages

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

NBCUniversal is seeking creative engineers to own the engineering, operations, support, deployment and maintenance of core Distribution Engineering Playout systems, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Responsibilities include provisioning automation, evaluating products, driving CI/CD, and mentoring SREs, with on-call 24/7 support on a rotating shift. Hybrid schedule with in-office presence required.