Systems Engineer
Company Description
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Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE:
Are you passionate about digital media, entertainment, and software services? Do you like big challenges and working within a highly motivated team environment? Keen with respect to Observability and Reliability principles? Candidates for the Systems Engineer role in our AIOps group will be responsible for operational management & application support.
As a Systems Engineer for AIOps, you will:
- Design, integrate, and provide full-stack lifecycle support for applications supporting our AIOps platform
- Own CI/CD initiatives, while working with other technical leads to define and maintain compliance with organizational standards
- Work closely with DevOps teams, customers, and infrastructure partners to identify & understand key system health/performance metrics, and develop monitoring approaches in support of service level objectives
- Participate in incident cause-analysis and assist in remediation and design efforts to improve reliability/prevent future failure scenarios
- Advance our AIOps offering through measurement & analysis of complex monitoring and alerting patterns, and provide clear guidance to collaborators for which tool, which pattern, which alert provides the desired Observability outcome
- Write code and scripts to automate everything possible
- Assist in scoping, design, and project work/budget estimations
This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.
REQUIREMENTS:
Technology Expertise and Ownership
- Expertise/operational support experience with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, or related app streaming/hosting platforms
- Expertise with Agile DevOps methodologies, process & associated software (ServiceNow Agile, Jira)
- Expertise/operational support experience with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, or related app streaming/hosting platforms
- Expertise and troubleshooting skills for large-scale distributed computing systems and software
- Experience with automation, CI/CD pipeline & software testing (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, and Jenkins)
- Experience with version control management (git, GitHub)
- Experience with monitoring platforms (OP5/Nagios, Datadog, Splunk)
- Experience with public cloud service offerings (AWS, Azure, Google)
- Experience with OS management and features (Windows, Linux distributions)
- Experience with script language development (Python, Node.js, Perl)
- Familiarity with network technology concepts (TCP/IP, UDP, IPV4, IPV6, DNS, SSL, Firewalls, F5 LTM)
- Familiarity with general cybersecurity best practices, close collaboration with Cyber Security team
Collaboration and Technical Communication Requirements
- Impeccable written and verbal communication and presentation skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to collaborate enthusiastically with DevOps teams, customers, and peers across our organization
- Ability to communicate directly with software vendors
- Demonstrate a tolerance for stress and provide a supportive attitude for all colleagues
Qualifications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- BS in computer science or related field
- At least 5 years of experience supporting high volume/large-scale environments
- Media industry experience (broadcast or production) preferred
- Cloud platform certification preferred
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.
Additional Information
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