Systems Engineer (App Discovery/Automation)

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

NBCUniversal has an exciting opportunity for a talented individual to become a Systems Engineer with a specific focus on System and Application Discovery solutions for NBCU Operations and Technology (O&T). 

O&T supports enterprise Technology, Broadcast and Production systems across the NBCU portfolio globally.

The Systems Engineer will apply DevOps and SRE principles to deploy and create new applications, integrations and services that serve to reduce manual effort and provide process improvements to existing and newly developed workflows across Enterprise IT, Broadcast, Media Fulfillment and Post Production.

Responsibilities:

• Primary focus on managing System and Application Discovery tools tied to our Automation and SRE team.
• Help gather data related to audit request via discovery or automation tools.
• Participate in architecture discussions to identify efficient solutions for enterprise IT as well as broadcast and media workflows.
• Work with various business units and vendors to gather requirements and implement new software and hardware solutions.
• Partner with other engineering teams (Active Directory, Compute, Storage, Application Support, etc) to deliver best of breed solutions.
• Identify areas where manual steps could be eliminated, or inefficient processes could be improved through automation.
• Create high level architecture diagrams using Visio/Lucidchart/AutoCAD or other similar tools.
• Create documentation for developers and operation support teams
• Create and maintain Ansible Playbooks and Roles for both Unix, Windows, and Mac environments.
• Create and maintain automations to support cloud and on-premise technologies
• Stay up to date on new development and platform technologies and make recommendations for improved development approaches.
• Participate in on-call rotations and occasional after-hours maintenance.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting and maintaining engineering systems.
• Experience working with a variety of languages and technologies on both the front- and backend, including but not limited to git, Python, Ansible, Terraform, JavaScript (React and node), CSS3 and HTML5, (or similar configuration management tools).
• Demonstrated ability to think critically about problems, decipher user preferences versus hard requirements, and effectively use online and onsite resources to find an appropriate solution with little intervention.
• Passionate about writing clear, maintainable code that will be used and modified by others, and able to use and modify other developers’ work rather than recreate it
• Must be willing to travel to NBCUniversal locations as needed.

DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS:

• Experience working with discovery tools such as Eracent, Device 42, UCMDB, ADDM, etc.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, comfortable communicating with technical and non-technical colleagues and executives
• Experience working in a SRE or DevOps team preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineer