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Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE:
NBC Universal has an exciting opportunity for a talented individual to become the Sr. Engineer, Web/Middleware (Microsoft Platform) of Media Infrastructure Technology with a specific focus on support of the Media Technology and Infrastructure Division for NBCU Operations and Technology (O&T). O&T supports Enterprise Technology, Broadcast and Production systems across the NBCU portfolio globally.
The Sr. Engineer for Web/Middleware will partner with NBCU resources on technology strategy, day to day operations and platform support, long range initiatives planning, collaboration with cross-functional business leaders and partners, and management of a dynamic team providing "best in class" support for our NBCU Media local stations.
Areas of Responsibility

• Subject matter expert in web and middleware technologies
• Design highly available, scalable, secured, distributed web and middleware hosting solutions
• Collaborate with application teams to establish CI/CD orchestration pipelines
• Assist project teams in scoping, design, and project work estimations
• Identify issues and project business requirements and develop solutions to them
• Oversee the technical quality of the team's solutions delivery; describe architecture decisions and rationales at a detailed level to both client and internal teams
• Oversee continuous improvement initiatives and work with other technical leads to define and maintain compliance with organizational standards
• Oversee the team's response to incidents and service requests; identify areas of optimization and lead efforts to implement them
• Collaborate with Cyber Security and identify solutions for remediation of vulnerabilities in the web and middleware infrastructure
• Collaborate with Enterprise Monitoring to implement monitoring and alerting for web and middleware technologies
• Participate in 24/7 support by acting as an escalation point for any production issues
• Provide mentorship and guidance to team

REQUIREMENTS:
Skill Sets

• Advanced technical expertise in:
  • Internet Information Services (IIS)
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
  • Tomcat
  • Apache Web Server
• Intermediate technical expertise in:
  • Automation tooling (Ansible, PowerShell, shell scripting)
  • Git
  • Loadbalancing
  • Public Key Infrastructure
  • Single-Sign On tooling
  • Web application firewalls
  • CI/CD pipeline tooling
  • Secrets management
• Significant experience in:
  • Facilitating and participating in architectural reviews with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Adapting on-premise designs to public cloud capabilities
  • Developing, documenting, and maintaining technical standards
  • Collaborative solutions development

Desired Characteristics

• Work collaboratively in a team environment
• Communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences in written and non-written formats
• Work with code to bring advancement of continuous integration/deployments
• A fan of automation with the ability to bring additional knowledge around this topic to our team
• ServiceNow experience is a plus
• Understanding of Windows and Linux update processes & impact on systems
• Demonstrated cloud computing experience supporting Windows and Linux systems on AWS or Azure. AWS certification strongly preferred
• Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting
• Understanding of database configuration from a web server point of view
• Knowledge of the OS : Linux, Windows Server
• Knowledge of SAN and NAS storage
• Skilled at making decisions and problem solving
• Ability to communicate with external customers in the resolution of support issues

Qualifications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• B.S. degree in Information Technology, Business Administration or other technical discipline
• At least 5 years' experience in the Web/Middleware space
• Must be willing to work in Universal City, CA, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Denver, CO, London, UK
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the US
• Must be willing to work evenings, overnights, weekends , holidays with little or/no notice

Additional Information
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