Sr. Platform Engineer

Position: Sr. Platform Engineer I
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 global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service.

We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, Dream Works Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood.

NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit  for more information.

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.

Job Description Contribute to the development of cutting-edge platforms that serve the needs of the Studio across various cloud providers and data centers.

Responsible for developing the compute, storage, database and platform solutions on prem and in the public cloud.

Collaborate within a cross-functional team to design and implement next-generation CI/CD platforms-as-a-service for internal product solutions.

Leverage Kubernetes operators and Spinnaker pipelines to automate application deployments and administration across multiple environments (on-premises and in the cloud).Define and implement workflows, processes, and standards for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).Demonstrate a strong understanding and contribute to the continuous improvement of the studio platform, including in-house Dev Ops tools and custom products used for platform operations, as well as customer-facing user interfaces.

Integrate chaos engineering practices and support the development of full-stack, continuous testing environments to improve system reliability and resilience.

Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations, effectively communicating complex technical concepts, strategies, risks, and recommendations to diverse leadership audiences, including technical, business, and operational stakeholders.

Continuously monitor system health, capacity, and performance indicators, driving optimization and proactive improvements.

Provide tier-3 on-call support for troubleshooting and break-fix support for production services.

Actively drive and participate in the team’s continuous improvement initiatives.

Monitor and maintain platform infrastructure, utilizing tools like Datadog for performance tracking, alerts, and capacity management.

Up to 5% domestic travel required.

Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or foreign degree equivalent), plus 8 years of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation in the animation industry.

Position requires the following skills, which must have been gained through eight (8) years of experience:

Revision control and Dev Ops best practices (Git).Expert Linux experience (Red Hat, CentOS).Animation artists’ production pipelines, including but not…