Staff Cyber Systems Architect

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

Job Description

Join NBCUniversal Cyber Security and help us design and implement DNS and related network security services that enable and protect the experience of our businesses. This role is a part of the Cyber Security Architecture and Engineering team, responsible for security technology that supports the entire NBCUniversal enterprise. You'll be responsible for design and planning of DNS and related network security services that provide visibility and defend the network at all layers.

You'll:

· Create new systems and practices to support highly-available, reliable, and secure DNS services in a complex on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud estate.

· Architect systems consisting of COTS and custom-developed components where necessary to meet the unique needs of NBCUniversal.

· Create a roadmap for reliability and performance that can stand the test of time with appropriate metrics and observability.

· Prototype and build systems in cloud that seamlessly provide service to engineering teams and integrate with their preferred stacks

· Work with development teams to design automation of self-service and repeatable DNS functions integrating with APIs and existing enterprise workflow systems.

· Work closely with the NBC Universal Cyber Defense Organization to glean valuable information security insights from DNS activity and other log data.

· Work to improve adjacent network services like DHCP, IPAM, Cloud Security and infrastructure orchestration.

· Improve namespace design and utilization by creating logical domain and DNS zone standards.

· Serve as an escalation point for DNS service-related incidents and a resource for information security incidents where DNS data or configuration is useful in the incident response process.

Qualifications

· A deep understanding network security principles and how to apply them in the DDI space.

· Minimum 5 years’ experience designing and implementing Infoblox DDI in large enterprises with a complex networks.

· Experience integrating corporate DNS (and other DDI) services with cloud DNS like Route 53 and Azure DNS.

· Experience tuning 3rd party recursive DNS service security features to reduce false positives and meet the needs of the business.

· Experience migrating DNS services to or from Microsoft DNS and expert knowledge of how that impacts an Active Directory domain.

· An understanding of how to utilize the Infoblox API to configure, manage or pull data from a grid.

· Ability to read and write basic logic in any scripting or programming language to manipulate data or communicate with an API.

· A thirst for improvement and an inclination to thoughtfully challenge the status quo.

· Desire to try things and iterate on them, fail fast, and focus on functionality that matters.

· Leverage data to drive design and risk decisions using various sources and basic analytics to create clear metrics and reports.

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience managing security services or infrastructure in the media and entertainment industry.

• Experience working with brand reputation services and leveraging external doma