Principal DevOps Engineer

Company Description

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. 

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

We are looking for an individual to fill the role of Principal DevOps Engineer. As a member of the NBC Production Infrastructure team, this individual would architect solutions to further migrate Enterprise IT offerings to the cloud.  They will also be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure and services that directly support broadcast production.

Reliability Engineering is a methodology that combines automation, codified infrastructure, and continuous delivery to reduce operational complexity and increase platform stability and usability. Applying this approach to the enterprise broadcast environment, the Principal Software Engineer (DevOps) will design and build solutions to automate, provision, and maintain infrastructure across hybrid cloud environments. 

This role will rely heavily on Infrastructure-As-Code, Configuration Management, and cloud-native architecture.

• Utilize infrastructure as-code and GitOps tooling to enable secure and reliable provisioning of systems across hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, VMWare, Nutanix, etc)
• Design and implement CI / CD pipelines to ensure code quality, agility, security, and policy.
• Provide technical guidance to a growing team of developers, ensuring and enforcing best application and network security practices
• Design, Implement and Maintain a platform for media and production services
• Write code to support automation, monitoring, and diagnostic tools
• Automate and configure processes to continuously improve the production environment, including self-service options for Enterprise clients
• Maintain production systems by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
• Design highly available services across regions and datacenters

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Helm, Puppet, and Ansible
• 10+ years experience with Kubernetes, specifically EKS/AKS and other container orchestrator services (ECS, Fargate)
• 10+ years experience designing and implementing strategic cloud-native and microservice architectures at enterprise scale, with an understanding of design principles for scalability, performance, and reliability
• 10+ years experience designing and implementing innovative IT infrastructure solutions at enterprise scale
• Production experience with AWS/Azure platforms and core service offerings
• Experience with VDI workflows, desktop delivery, image pipelines, remote connectivity
• Linux/Windows operating system internals, debugging, and best practices
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills (presenting to executives, engagement with vendors, technical writing, documentation, etc)
• Keen eye for information cyber security (zero-trust, machine identity, authentication, authorization, secrets abstraction)
• Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Python, Bash, Powershell

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience as a Cloud Solutions Architect, or similar role
• Relevant Cloud / IT certifications
• Rest API design, implementation, usage, debugging, and documentation
• Proficiency with source control repositories (GitHub, GitLab), pipelines and integrations
• Experience with mo