DevOps Engineer, Playout

Company Description
NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.
Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.
Job Description
NBCU is looking for creative DevOps Engineers for NBCU's Distribution Engineering organization who has the appetite to learn, possesses a combination of technical skills along with communication and soft skills with a mindset of Agile, DevOps and Engineering. This role will be responsible for developing CICD pipelines which is scalable, reliable, efficient; deploy product upgrades from the vendor; identifying issues, providing appropriate solution for the issues encountered and maintenance of Distribution Engineering's core Playout platform.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Develop robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD) pipeline
• Deployment, automation, and maintenance of cloud-based production system
• Integrate security, code quality and automated testing as part of the pipeline
• Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging, and production environments
• Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them by evaluating new technology alternatives and vendor products
• Implement Infrastructure as a Code to instantiate / provision cloud resources required
• Work collaboratively with engineers and vendor to deploy requirements
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across the platform
• Definition and deployment of systems to collect DevOps metrics, logging and monitoring for CICD pipeline
• Providing recommendations, best practices, and process improvements
• Provide Tier 2 support for Operations/On-Air Engineering teams
Note: This is not a 24/7 on-call support role. There is a separate Tier 1 support team handling this
Qualifications
REQUIREMENTS:
• Understanding of Broadcast and Media distribution workflows / technologies
• Bachelor's / Master's degree in Computer Science or related degree
• 2+ yrs. experience in DevOps, modern infrastructure deployment and maintenance
• 2+ yrs. experience in Infrastructure As a code (e.g., Terraform)
• Experience delivering hosted cloud services in (e.g., AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Experience with CI/CD orchestration tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, or Jenkins)
• Experience with networking and cloud-based network environments
• Experience with containerization & Kubernetes
• Experience with CI/CD build and deployment practices
• Experience in administrating Linux environments
• Must have an automate-first and automate everything attitude
• Experience with multiple scripting languages (e.g., YML, Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby, or JavaScript)
• Ability to use Agile process for project management, development & tracking
DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS:
• Experience with a variety of software and hardware operating environments
• Experience with IP video technologies a plus
• Familiarity with CICD, monitoring/logging tools.
• Good communicator and can clearly articulate complex issues and technologies
• Great design and problem-solving skills.
• Willing to take ownership of problems and see them through to resolution
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced agile environment. Requirements change quickly and our team needs to constantly adapt to moving targets.
• Experience with DevSecOps principles
Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee's residence.
This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.
Salary range: $90,000 - $110,000.
We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis.
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Additional Information
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