Director, Site Reliability Engineering

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, Golf Now, Golf Pass, and Sports Engine. 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.

• As a member of NBCUniversal's Production Software Engineering team, responsible for leading and performing custom architectural design, implementation, monitoring, and maintenance for a portfolio of production application environments.
• Responsible for hands-on configuration and support as well as managing the work of other architects and engineers.
• Work closely with our Principal Software Engineer on technical architecture and design based on customer product requirements, translating product requirements to technical designs and implementations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members such as Scrum Leads, Software Engineers, QA Engineers, UX Designers, Product Managers, other Architects & Site Reliability Engineers (Contractors and/or Staff), and third-party vendors.
• Effectively delegate responsibilities to team members, mentoring and providing them with repeatable processes, and verifying the quality of their work.
• Utilize metrics to measure accomplishments and monitors progress, ensuring milestones and projects are completed on-time.
• Communicate progress and the impact of solutions in technical terms to technology partners and in business terms to business partners.
• Establish a reputation as the subject matter expert for every tech stack used in Production Software Engineering applications and how they all fit together while keeping current with new technologies, developing innovative technical ideas, and generating proposals.
• Work with product teams to learn business objectives, development teams to plan platform needs, QA to understand test strategy, and SRE on environments and deployments.
• Participate in Scrums, demos, and other Agile ceremonies and ensure accurate and timely status updates to the team.
• Serve as primary interface with the NBCU Cyber Security team for all security-related initiatives, patching, remediations, etc.
• Hands-on commissioning, configuration, administration, documentation, and support for all on-prem & cloud (AWS) environments (Servers, Storage, Databases, Networking, Security, etc.).
• Technical impact analysis, implementation, and monitoring of all cyber, technology audit, enterprise engineering, & IT (Databases, Monitoring, etc.) activities related to Production Software Engineering applications and platforms.
• Create and manage CI/CD pipelines using tool likes Cloud Formation, Foreman, Jenkins, Nexus, Rundeck, Ansible, and Puppet.
• Lead implementation of monitoring and reporting…