Sr. Platform Engineer I

NBCUniversal•Glendale, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Contribute to the development of cutting-edge platforms serving the Studio across cloud providers and data centers. Develop compute, storage, database, and platform solutions both on premises and in the public cloud. Collaborate with a cross-functional team to design and implement next-generation CI/CD platform-as-a-service solutions for internal products. Use Kubernetes operators and Spinnaker pipelines to automate application deployments and administration across on-premises and cloud environments. Define and implement Infrastructure-as-Code workflows, processes, and standards, and contribute to the continuous improvement of the studio platform, including in-house DevOps tools, custom platform-operations products, and customer-facing interfaces. Integrate chaos engineering practices and support full-stack continuous testing environments to improve reliability and resilience. Prepare executive-level presentations that communicate technical concepts, strategies, risks, and recommendations to technical, business, and operational stakeholders. Monitor system health, capacity, and performance, drive optimization and proactive improvements, and provide tier-3 on-call troubleshooting and break-fix support for production services. Monitor and maintain platform infrastructure using tools such as Datadog, and participate in team continuous-improvement initiatives. Up to 5% domestic travel is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or foreign degree equivalent.
Eight years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation in the animation industry.
Eight years of experience with revision control and DevOps best practices, including Git.
Eight years of expert Linux experience, including Red Hat and CentOS.
Eight years of experience with animation artists’ production pipelines, including backend applications related to farm rendering and asset and catalog management software.
Eight years of experience with CI/CD tools and platforms such as Spinnaker, Drone, Jenkins, Ansible, and Argo.
Eight years of experience with release-management best practices, including versioning, branching, and deployment strategies.
Seven years of experience with production-critical systems and workflows.
Seven years of operational support experience, including infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting with tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or similar.
Seven years of experience working in multiple programming languages, including Java, Go, and Python.
Five years of experience with cloud-native technologies and architecture, including Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
Five years of experience supporting production artists and supervisor Technical Directors through P1 and P2 incident handling for high-performance rendering workflows.
Ability to provide tier-3 on-call support for production services.

Responsibilities

Develop compute, storage, database, and platform solutions on premises and in the public cloud.
Collaborate with a cross-functional team to design and implement CI/CD platform-as-a-service solutions for internal products.
Use Kubernetes operators and Spinnaker pipelines to automate application deployments and administration across on-premises and cloud environments.
Define and implement Infrastructure-as-Code workflows, processes, and standards.
Contribute to improving the studio platform, DevOps tools, platform-operations products, and customer-facing interfaces.
Integrate chaos engineering practices and support full-stack continuous testing environments.
Prepare executive-level presentations communicating technical concepts, strategies, risks, and recommendations to leadership and other stakeholders.
Monitor system health, capacity, and performance indicators and drive optimization and proactive improvements.
Provide tier-3 on-call troubleshooting and break-fix support for production services.
Monitor and maintain platform infrastructure using tools such as Datadog for performance tracking, alerts, and capacity management.
Drive and participate in team continuous-improvement initiatives.
Support production artists and supervisor Technical Directors through P1 and P2 incident handling to maintain platform health and high-performance rendering workflows.
Travel domestically up to 5%.