Sr. Network 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

Global Network and Distribution operations team is responsible for maintaining NBCU’s corporate and broadcast network. We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer who has a broad spectrum of knowledge with all networking technologies. Being in operations team needs understanding of all parts of network. Also includes reacting to alerts, working with vendors and clients to resolve issues, working with other network teams such as engineering, architects, automation teams to understand the changing network and troubleshooting problems. We maintain a 24X7 on call rotation.

This gives the opportunity to collaborate not just with engineering and automation team who are part of GND but also with a wide range of clients who work on core NBCU business.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in network engineering. CCNP equivalent.
• Responsible for responding to service requests and incidents.
• Experience with Routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, redistribution, mp BGP, eVPN), firewall rules, NAT, DMZ.
• Able to troubleshoot network issues spanning multiple networking technologies, device RMA, upgrades.
• Able to work with vendors to troubleshoot issues and find root cause.
• Ready to be part of on-call rotation. Ready to work off-hours with 3-5 days of notice.

Desired Characteristics:

• Understanding of Software Defined products, respective alert and monitoring.
• Cisco ACI, Arista, VxLAN, python or Ansible scripting – good to have.
• Able to collaborate with automation and reliability team to fine tune alerting and monitoring.
• Experience with AAA (Authentication / Authorization / Accounting) software (ISE/ClearPass)
• Knowledge of WPA2/WPA3 Enterprise & PSK, RADIUS and 802.1X and PKI concepts

Additional Requirements:

• Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.

We are accepting applications for this position on an ongoing basis.

Additional Information

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.

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