Senior Platform Operations Engineer - NBC Sports Next

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.

NBC Sports Next is where sports and technology intersect. We’re fueled by our mission to innovate, create larger-than-life events and connect with sports fans through technology. We’re a subdivision of NBC Sports and home to leading technology platforms and digital applications for Youth & Recreational Sports; Golf; and Emerging Media.  

At NBC Sports Next, we equip more than 30MM players, coaches, athletes, sports administrators and fans in 40 countries with more than 25 sports solution products, including SportsEngine, the largest youth sports club, league and team management platform; SportsEngine Play, the first ever streaming service for youth and amateur sports, GolfNow, the leading online tee time marketplace and provider of golf course operations technology; and GolfPass the ultimate golf membership that connects golfers to exclusive content, tee time credits, instructional content and more.  

Job Description

Senior Platform Operations Engineer will be a key member of our DevOps Team, helping to build and support the core infrastructure of the GolfNow Platform services and products through activities and key responsibilities that include:   

• Contributing to efforts that ensure the continuous and smooth running of the GolfNow platform while serving a large volume of traffic.
• Leveraging Amazon Web Services to build highly available services.
• Developing Infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform.
• Developing configuration management/automation/deployment pipelines using tools like Ansible.
• Working closely with the NBC Sports Next Cyber Security Team to maintain and improve the security of the Platform.
• Contributing to and using our GitHub Pull Request-centered development pipeline as we continuously deliver value to our customers.
• Using tools such as Datadog and Splunk to monitor the health of the platform.
• Being an advocate for quality code and engineering practices that enable Continuous Delivery.
• Participation in a sustainable on-call schedule.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5 or more years of experience in the field of Software Engineering which operating web applications in a Site Reliability Engineering, Web Operations, or Cloud Engineering capacity.
• Production experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, RDS, IAM.
• A strong foundation in modern infrastructure practices and the ability to deploy and operate maintainable, scalable and secure infrastructure.
• Ability to write quality, documented, modular, maintainable, secure, and testable infrastructure automation.
• A team-oriented attitude and seemingly endless intellectual curiosity.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desired Qualifications

• AWS Experience
  • Experience in the following areas of AWS:
    • EC2/ECS/EKS
    • VPC – Subnets, Security Groups, NAT Gateways, Transit Gateways, ELB/ALB/NLB etc.
    • IAM, S3, Managed data tiers - RDS/Elasticache etc.

• • Nice to have
    • Experience in production with AWS Serverless technologies such as Lambda/SQS/SNS/DynamoDB etc.

• Kubernetes
  • Production experience of running services in Kubernetes
  • Ability to take a VM based application and migrate to Kubernetes

• CI/CD
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, assisting developers in delivering changes on a daily cadence
  • Experience with TravisCI, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Github Actions or similar technologies

• Automation
  • Ability to script automation in one of either Ruby, Python, Go, Powershell etc.

• Infrastructure as Code
  • Terraform
    • Ability to author Terraform at a proficient level
    • Ability to break out reusable, opinionated and standardized actions into Terraform modules

• • Chef/Ansible

Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence.

Additional Information

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