Director, Software Engineering, DevSecOps

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.   

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. 

Job Description

The Director, Software Engineering, DevSecOps will lead and manage a team to help enable our Engineering Experience group to shift-left with a security first mindset in how we engineer software at NBCU. The candidate will have the ability to steer the strategic vision for our engineering experience teams to bring secure-by-default tools and cloud components across our engineering culture, and alignment with our corporate cyber team. We are dedicated to make secure software development a part of the mindset of every engineer at NBCU. The Director, Software Engineering, DevSecOps role is fully-remote within the United States.

The capabilities we are building will aide with providing easy, templated solutions that create paved roads to go from account creation to code repositories to production that include, but not limited to:

• Secure testing of code in CI/CD Pipelines
• Secure testing of edge-based API Gateways
• Knowledge of scanning tools for secrets in various developer toolchains, such as Jira, Confluence, Atlassian
• Automation and creation of blueprints to align with secure cloud building blocks into solutions for various cloud providers
• Define and drive the strategy in alignment with corporate cyber policies to ensure that security is part of a highly DevOps oriented and multi-cloud environment
• Performance, code quality, security and privacy templating to increase adoption with a focus on all types of cloud environments from compute to serverless.

Responsibilities 

• Manage and grow teams of talented application security, cloud security, and software engineers who will build and monitor paved roads that can deliver frictionless experience and allow all product engineering teams to work in a secure manner by default.
• Build and maintain a security champions program by managing and growing a security partnership team of security engineers who can embed with areas of the product where help is needed
• Define and drive the strategy to ensure that security is part of a highly DevOps oriented and multi-cloud environment
• Help drive the development of our internal developer portal with security first mindset.
• Consult, educate, and empower engineers as they build & ship innovative software.
• Research, prototype and develop solutions in support of the adoption of new technologies and architecture.
• Gather regular feedback about developer experience, ensuring security is an enabler, not a roadblock or gate.
• Engage with engineers throughout the company to learn about pain points, and work alongside a technical lead to define and prioritize solutions.
• Lead and mentor engineers within the group 
• Establish and maintain partnerships within the organization and internal customers to determine roadmap features 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant work experience, 4+ as a leader
• Understanding of Application Lifecycle Management tools, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Version Control, Testing Frameworks with an eye on DevSecOps.
• You have designed capabilities which embeds security expertise within other areas of the business and you have built product security functions within a product or cloud-native company
• Understanding of public cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP) and fundamental components like Compute/Virtual Machines, Serverless, Storage, Databases, Identity and User Management, etc.
• Ability to write technical documentation (platform architecture, strategy, engineering etc.)
• Demonstrated leadership skills in a fast-paced, team-driven environment.
• Grasp the big picture, while still delivering on th