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NBCUniversal · 6 hours ago

Director, Site Reliability Engineering

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$190K/yr - $220K/yr

10+ years exp

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies, and they are seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering. The role involves leading and performing architectural design, implementation, and maintenance for production application environments, while also managing a team of architects and engineers.

BroadcastingMedia and EntertainmentNews

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

As a member of NBCUniversal’s Production Software Engineering team, responsible for leading and performing custom architectural design, implementation, monitoring, and maintenance for a portfolio of production application environments

Responsible for hands-on configuration and support as well as managing the work of other architects and engineers

Work closely with our Principal Software Engineer on technical architecture and design based on customer product requirements, translating product requirements to technical designs and implementations

Collaborate with cross-functional team members such as Scrum Leads, Software Engineers, QA Engineers, UX Designers, Product Managers, other Architects & Site Reliability Engineers (Contractors and/or Staff), and third-party vendors

Effectively delegate responsibilities to team members, mentoring and providing them with repeatable processes, and verifying the quality of their work

Utilize metrics to measure accomplishments and monitors progress, ensuring milestones and projects are completed on-time

Communicate progress and the impact of solutions in technical terms to technology partners and in business terms to business partners

Establish a reputation as the subject matter expert for every tech stack used in Production Software Engineering applications and how they all fit together while keeping current with new technologies, developing innovative technical ideas, and generating proposals

Work with product teams to learn business objectives, development teams to plan platform needs, QA to understand test strategy, and SRE on environments and deployments

Participate in Scrums, demos, and other Agile ceremonies and ensure accurate and timely status updates to the team

Serve as primary interface with the NBCU Cyber Security team for all security-related initiatives, patching, remediations, etc

Hands-on commissioning, configuration, administration, documentation, and support for all on-prem & cloud (AWS) environments (Servers, Storage, Databases, Networking, Security, etc.)

Technical impact analysis, implementation, and monitoring of all cyber, technology audit, enterprise engineering, & IT (Databases, Monitoring, etc.) activities related to Production Software Engineering applications and platforms

Create and manage CI/CD pipelines using tool likes Cloud Formation, Foreman, Jenkins, Nexus, Rundeck, Ansible, and Puppet

Lead implementation of monitoring and reporting framework using tools like Grafana, Influx, Graylog/Splunk, Selenium, New Relic, and Icinga

Recognize and identify potential technical impacts of enterprise change controls which could affect our applications and customers

Help improve performance, scalability, and reliability

Build and maintain distributed infrastructure and automation

Solve problems quickly and automates processes for the future

Direct management of other engineers and architects (Contractors and/or Staff). 24x7x365 availability for production outages, emergencies, and deployments

Qualification

Linux/Unix systems engineeringContinuous DeliveryDevOps principlesAWS Cloud experienceTechnical leadershipNoSQL data storesLarge scale applicationsAgile toolsPeople managementOperational toolsReal-time systemsDistributed infrastructure

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or foreign degree equivalent), plus 10 years of experience as a Software Architect, in the job offered, or in a related occupation

Hands-on systems engineering experience on Linux/Unix platforms

Experience with technical leadership and people management

Experience with Continuous Delivery and SDLC practices

DevOps principles, experience with operational tools (Ansible or Puppet or Chef, Terraform) and best practices for infrastructure (on-prem or cloud) and software deployment

Operational experience with large scale applications

Experience with NoSQL data stores (MarkLogic, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Couchbase, PostgreSQL, etc.)

Experience with a broad range of enterprise technologies

Experience building real-time, large-scale, low-latency distributed systems

Experience with Agile tools like Jira, GitHub or similar

Experience using AWS Cloud in a production environment

Experience with AWS IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, batch and step functions

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

A variety of other discounts and perks

Company

NBCUniversal

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NBCUniversal is a media company that provides entertainment and news development, production, distribution, and marketing services. It is a sub-organization of Comcast.

Founded in 1912

New York, New York, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.nbcuniversal.com/

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