Senior DevOps Engineer - NBC Sports Next

Company Description

NBC Sports Next is where sports and technology intersect. We’re a subdivision of NBC Sports and home to all NBCUniversal digital applications in sports and technology within our three groups: Youth & Recreational Sports; Golf; and Betting, Gaming & Emerging Media.  

At NBC Sports Next, we make playing sports better through innovative technology and immersive experiences for athletes, coaches, players and fans. We equip more than 30MM players, coaches, athletes, sports administrators and fans in 40 countries with more than 25 sports solution products, including SportsEngine, the largest youth sports club, league and team management platform; GolfNow, the leading online tee time marketplace and provider of golf course operations technology; GolfPass the ultimate golf membership that connects golfers to exclusive content, tee time credits, and coaching, tips; TeamUnify, swim team management services; GoMotion, sports and fitness business software solutions; and NBC Sports Edge, a leading platform for fantasy sports information and betting-focused tools.  

At NBC Sports Next we’re fueled by our mission to innovate, create larger-than-life events and connect with sports fans through technology that provides the ultimate in immersive experiences.  

Job Description

GolfNow/NBC Sports Digital are seeking to hire a Senior DevOps Engineer. You’ll be joining a dedicated, ambitious, and diverse team who are focused on delivering operational excellence inside the NBC Sports Next organisation.

You will work collaboratively with Engineering, Quality, Product and Security teams to build, deploy and operate GolfNow Products across Domestic and International.

You will be responsible for automating and improving our build and deploy processes; monitoring and operations; public and private cloud infrastructure; troubleshooting and resolution across dev, test and production globally.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious engineer to be involved in the world’s largest golf technology company backed by Comcast/NBCUniversal/Sky with the opportunity to make a difference.

Operational Support and Maintenance:

• Using APM and other tools you will monitor production systems; remediating production issues and implementing performance/cost improvements
• Identify capacity and performance issues to ensure we meet our SLAs
• Documentation of services and processes
• Participate in sustainable on-call schedule

Infrastructure:

• Design, implement and manage production grade services in Public clouds (AWS/GCP) using a variety of technologies, ensuring geographic redundancy, security and best practices
• Work with on-premise teams to deploy applications
• Build/manage large Kubernetes footprint deployed on Google Cloud Platform
• Install and manage web and backend services in a high throughput, multi-technology e-commerce environment

Build/Deploy:

• Design and implement CI/CD processes and tooling
• Ensure “shift-left” is implemented in our build and deploy processes in collaboration with Security teams
• Ensure pre-production environments are built and managed
• Perform deployments of high throughput revenue generating applications

Innovation:

• Work with the DevOps team to champion new processes, tools and technologies in collaboration with Engineering
• Constantly striving to find a better way
• Participate and lead Proof of Concepts for new approaches/tooling

Qualifications

• Hands on experience with public cloud providers; AWS and GCP preferred
• Experience deploying and operating enterprise scale applications in high throughput production environments
• Hands on experience provisioning Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation
• Hands on experience of managing services with configuration management tools, Ansible preferred
• Strong experience in Continuous Integration tools such as Teamcity, Jenkins, Github Actions or Gitlab CI
• Experience building production grade services with fault tolerance for zonal and regional issues in public clouds
• Experience capturing metrics and monitoring cloud infrastructure
• A working understanding of code and scripting (Java, JavaScript, PHP, Nodejs, Golang, .NET, Python etc.)
• Experience in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment using source control tools like git with git-flow branching