Manager Playout Engineering

Job Description

NBCUniversal Operations & Technology is looking for a Manager, Playout Engineering to provide technical leadership to a team of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers. This team is leading the technology and process transformation involved in migrating ‘master control’ playout from on-prem to a cloud native, scalable solution. In scope are all of NBC Universal live linear channels – NBC, Telemundo, USA, Peacock Virtual Channels, etc.

In this position, you will have the opportunity to create, deploy and support cutting edge technology that sets up live linear playout for the next generation of business use cases that are scalable, on-demand, tiered with respect to level of reliability, content supply chain optimized, and ready for the newest innovations in video / audio quality.

This role requires the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment. For new initiatives, you must be able to effectively lead the team to review / intake new project requests, resource estimate, and execute on projects to committed deliverables. For systems in production, you will lead a team that is on-call and must be able to lead L2 & L3 troubleshooting to maintain reliable distribution.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of ~10 DevOps and SRE engineers
• Responsible for Broadcast Automation Support of our Master Control Playout ecosystem
• Responsible for deploying Broadcast Automation software to the cloud using CI / CD tools
• Use development and staging environments to validate Broadcast Automation software functionality before deploying to production
• Create high level conceptual drawings for project planning
• Produce cloud usage cost estimates for project proposals
• Leadership in driving automation, remote deployments (across country)
• L2 & L3 support to maintain playout infrastructure / services for NBCUniversal including providing after hours on-call support select weeks
• Manage highly reliable, enterprise scale on-air systems
• Leadership in creating monitoring dashboards / automated alerting using Splunk & Grafana

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This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range : $130,000-170,000 ( bonus eligible)

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. 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.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and / or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to AccessibilitySupport@nbcuni.com.

For LA County and City Residents Only : NBCUniversal will consider for employment

qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner

consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance

Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles' County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.

Salary : $130,000 - $170,000