Site Reliability Engineer

NBCU’s Distribution engineering is responsible for the automation and reliability of NBCU’s Live sources. Reasonable for the delivery of 200+ NBC and Telemundo stations and Cable networks, and live events like sports, news and entertainment content to third party providers and Peacock.NBCU’s Distribution Engineering is looking to add a talented Site Reliability Engineer to be part of our Video Streaming team to build automation solutions to deploy and maintain applications, focusing on scalability, reliability and resiliency. We are looking for a dynamic team player who is an owner, accountable and passionate about technology. You will be working on high-visibility projects serving millions of viewers for industry-leading sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, Olympics, Premier League, and America’s Got Talent.You will become a part of a team that deploys and supports applications at facilities across the country and business-to-business delivery of 24/7 Live content. You will work with 3rd party vendors to understand their systems and develop the automation to deploy, manage and monitor these systems. This is a fast-paced environment which requires you to think on your feet and pivot as needed to achieve our goals. Projects that seem easy will sometimes turn into hackathons.Some of our tasks include:Deploy and maintain systems across the country and in the CloudParticipate, facilitate, and/or lead large or complex troubleshooting activities that require significant judgment and reasoning outside area of expertiseReport bugs to vendors, work with them to address the issues and test new releasesWork collaboratively with operations, engineers and vendors to gather requirements and develop new solutionsAnalyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them by evaluating new technology alternatives and vendor productsDevelop automation that can detect issues, send alerts and attempt automated recovery stepsProduce documentation for our workflows, troubleshooting steps, and Standard Operating ProceduresWork on cloud and on-prem infrastructure as well as managing live broadcast components and standardsParticipate in an on-call rotation for L2 support off-hours