Sr. Video Streaming DevOps Engineer

NBCUniversal•New York, NY

4d•$110,000 - $135,000•Remote

About The Position

NBCU’s Distribution Engineering is responsible for the automation and reliability of NBCU’s Live sources. This role is responsible for the delivery of 200+ NBC and Telemundo stations and Cable networks, and live events like sports, news, and entertainment content to third-party providers and Peacock. The Distribution Engineering team is looking to add a talented DevOps Engineer to be part of our Video Streaming team to build automation solutions to deploy and maintain applications, focusing on scalability, reliability, and resiliency. We are looking for a dynamic team player who is an owner, accountable, and passionate about technology. You will be working on high-visibility projects serving millions of viewers for industry-leading sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, Olympics, Premier League, and America’s Got Talent. You will become a part of a team that deploys and supports applications at facilities across the country and business-to-business delivery of 24/7 Live content. You will work with 3rd party vendors to understand their systems and develop the automation to deploy, manage, and monitor these systems. This is a fast-paced environment which requires you to think on your feet and pivot as needed to achieve our goals. Projects that seem easy will sometimes turn into hackathons. Some of our tasks include deploying and maintaining remote systems across the country and in the Cloud, developing Infrastructure as a Code to instantiate/provision cloud resources, participating in, facilitating, and/or leading large or complex troubleshooting activities that require significant judgment and reasoning outside the area of expertise, working collaboratively with operations, engineers, and vendors to gather requirements and develop solutions, analyzing current technology utilized within the company and developing steps and processes to improve and expand upon them by evaluating new technology alternatives and vendor products, developing robust CI/CD pipelines that integrate security, code quality, and automated testing, and participating in an on-call rotation for L2 support off-hours.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT or related experience
5+ years of prior DevOps experience or equivalent, modern infrastructure deployment and maintenance
Strong experience with Linux/Unix administration IP networking and interfacing with cloud-based networks, good understanding of the core networking fundamentals
Experience designing and delivering cloud hosted services in (e.g., AWS, GCP or Azure)
Comfortable managing code with Git and Git CLI
Working knowledge of Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible and Chef to automate deployments of software/infrastructure
Working knowledge of scripting languages such Python, Bash, JavaScript, JSON, XML and YML
Experience with developing and deploying containerized systems, Kubernetes, docker
Experience with CI/CD build and deployment practices
Experience with Splunk, Grafana, ELK to create dashboards and alerts
Familiar with cyber security best practices and tooling such as CrowdStrike, Qualys, Airlock
Experience using and/or developing AI agents to code and troubleshoot issues

Nice To Haves

Understanding of Broadcast and Media distribution workflows / technologies
Experience developing software/scripts that leverage Microsoft Graph API
Familiarity with streaming protocols and codecs (TS, HEVC, H.264, HLS, CMAF, DASH, SCTE-35, SCTE-224, ESAM, SRT/RIST)
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 video encoding vendors such as Harmonic, Elemental, Synamedia, Evertz, Nevion

Responsibilities

Deploy and maintain remote systems across the country and in the Cloud
Develop Infrastructure as a Code to instantiate / provision cloud resources
Participate, facilitate, and/or lead large or complex troubleshooting activities that require significant judgment and reasoning outside area of expertise
Work collaboratively with operations, engineers and vendor to gather requirements and develop solutions
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
Develop robust CI/CD pipelines that integrates security, code quality and automated testing
Participate in an on-call rotation for L2 support off-hours