Sr Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane (Azure/ GCP)

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

The Cloud Enablement and Acceleration team plays a critical role around the design, implementation, and maintenance of the Cloud Control Planes for Azure, GCP and AWS. The Control Planes consists of account / subscription / project factories with tooling, automation, and guardrails to help teams utilize the cloud in an easy and safe manner extending to governance, identity management, network enablement and observability of the clouds.   

The Sr Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership to the engineering teams responsible for developing and defining the core pipelines for automating and managing the Cloud Control Planes. In this role, you will articulate a vision and drive execution of cloud platform automation, extending to code reviews, technical design and operability and observability of the platforms. You will participate in designing, building and maintaining the backend of Public Cloud as a Product at NBCU. This role includes working in consultation with Cyber, Network Services, the broader NBCU developer population, and engineering leadership to deliver the best services, tools, and processes that will ensure we are enabling our customers to achieve cloud acceleration and maturity. A key aspect of this role is working with engineering teams and leadership to ensure development teams are appropriately equipped with the knowledge, skills and tools required to perform their job effectively. The ideal candidate will have respect for the past, but focus on driving innovation for what we do today to improve how we do it tomorrow. A passion for teaching others along the way will be key. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, experience, and training in Computer Science or a related field.  
• 12+ years of experience in public cloud infrastructure and tools, software development, and automation.   
• Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, or an equivalent.   
• Understanding of Application Lifecycle Management tools, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Version Control, Testing Frameworks and DevSecOps with an eye on FinOps.  
• Proficient with the management and designs of AWS Organizations / Control Tower and Azure CAF. Experience with productizing Service Catalog service offerings.  
• Strong proven proficiency with core cloud networking components, such as VPCs / VNets, IAM, DX / ExpressRoute, and the best practices around other AWS or Azure tools and services.  
• Provided mentorship to grow the technical skills and careers of others with consideration of their career stage and personal trajectory  
• Demonstrable experience as developer and the ability to guide others in the development process 
• Passion for DevOps culture, automation, and modern tooling.  
• Ability to communicate effectively depending on the audience technical teams, business teams, and leadership teams.  
• Drive and deliver tools and self-service capabilities that allow teams to securely maintain their workloads in the cloud. 
• Ability to write technical documentation (platform a