NBCUniversal is looking to solve challenges related to the design, operation, delivery, and observation of their streaming products (Peacock, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and Now/Wow) across US, UK, EU, and Africa, focusing on large-scale Multi-CDN design, performance telemetry, and integrating new player technologies.
Requirements
- Operational knowledge of key internet technologies, eg TCP/IP, HTTP/S and DNS protocols.
- Skilled using software repositories, CI/CD pipelines and test automation.
- Effective use of SRE to achieve safe, consistent technology operations.
- An understanding of Content Delivery Networks, Streaming media delivery and OTT concepts for scaled Live and VOD content distribution is preferable
- Demonstrable experience (2+ years) in an engineering leadership role.
- 4+ years of experience in engineering as an individual contributor.
- A track record in delivering and maintaining products and services via 24/7 on-call teams.
Responsibilities
- design, configure, operate and maintain systems, software and managed services for our subscribers
- Achieve effective resource management, user story mapping, sprint planning, review and retrospective meetings for the local team + associated resources across time zones as part of the design and delivery process.
- Host and encourage lively solution debate with the team, ensuring all valid input is heard, while identifying and encouraging subject matter expert contribution.
- Develop productive relationships with our third-party vendors and internal teams across the group that are critical to our progress, bringing a predictive and consistent approach to delivery, providing mediation as required.
- provide cross-discipline situation/incident briefings and presenting progress to key stakeholders as needed.
- design, operation, delivery and observation for our US, UK, EU and Africa based streaming products
- large-scale Multi-Content Delivery Network design and operations, performance telemetry and analytics, selection & interfacing with content origins via multiple workflows - dynamic ad insertion, manifest manipulation and integrating new player technologies.
Other
- Inspire, mentor and lead our team of software and data engineers
- A flair for communicating in spoken and written English, to a wide variety of nationalities.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies, e.g. scrum and kanban.
- 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.
- NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
