Site Reliability Engineer

The Media Group at NBCU supports a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports, and NBCU International. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.

As a company, we embrace the power of difference. Our team is committed to creating an organization that champions diversity and inclusivity for all by curating content and a workforce that represents the world around us.  We continue to challenge ourselves and the industry by being customer-centric, data-driven creatures of innovation. At Peacock, we are determined to forge the next frontier of streaming through creativity, teamwork, and talent. 

The Site Reliability Engineer will be part of the Global Video Engineering team and will be responsible for maintaining the networking and infrastructure of the cloud platforms utilized to operate NBC’s Direct-to-Consumer platforms. The SRE will embrace a software-driven approach to operations, managing infrastructure as code, leveraging deployment pipelines, with a focus on automation, observability and resiliency. 

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering teammates and Software Delivery teams to determine and implement cloud networking, monitoring, and infrastructure requirements 
• Ensure that networks and infrastructure are highly available 
• Develop methodologies to safely deploy and test network and infrastructure changes, including customized tests and chaos testing. 
• Design, create, and deliver infrastructure, code or services to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of our internal or customer-facing services 
• Troubleshooting and problem solving 
• Participate in code reviews 
• Design multi-region/multi-cloud fault-tolerant systems 
• Drive DevOps culture across the organization by providing consultancy to delivery teams 
• Provide support for operations and delivery teams to remediate production issues as appropriate 
• Build cloud-agnostic solutions that can be quickly deployed against a wide variety of cloud computing providers 
• Architect and develop custom software solutions 
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a relevant field
• Minimum three (3) years of experience in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering role
• Experience with CDN delivery providers (Akamai, CloudFront, Fastly, Cloudfare)
• Demonstrated experience with large scale 24/7 production environments
• Ability to follow established processes and workflows to ensure that all work is completed following best practices
• Configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (example: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation)
• CI/CD (Jenkins / Concourse / GoCD / GitLab)
• Networking (Load Balancing, Routing, Security Groups, VPC, Subnetting)
• Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RedHat)
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
• Cloud Platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios)
• Logging (ELK, Splunk, Loki)
• Scripting / System-Programming (Python, Go, Bash, Java, Node)
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older
• Availability to travel as required
• Must pass a background investigation

Desired Characteristics

• Experience with a digital media direct-to-consumer business highly preferred.
• Certification in AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, comfortable communicating with technical and non-technical colleagues and executives
• Ability to understand large complex software systems and their interdependencies

Hybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $100,000 - $160,000.

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to AccessibilitySupport@nbcuni.com.