Senior Platform Operations Engineer - NBC Sports Next

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.

Requirements

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.