Manager Playout Engineering
Manager Playout Engineering
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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 onprem 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 ondemand 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 fastpaced 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 oncall 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 oncall support select weeks
- Manage highly reliable enterprise scale onair systems
- Leadership in creating monitoring dashboards / automated alerting using Splunk & Grafana
Qualifications :
Basic Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in computer science or related degree / experience
- 5 years of handsonkeyboard Engineering experience working with broadcast automation playout environments e.g. Snell Harris Imagine Amagi
- Cumulative 2 years of experience in Engineering management and/or team lead experience
- Requires oncall 24/7 availability for escalations
- Handsonkeyboard experience administrating Linux environments
- Handsonkeyboard experience with automation platforms (e.g. Ansible Terraform CloudFormation)
- Experience with monitoring/logging tools e.g. Splunk and Grafana.
- Experience with automated deployement CI/CD tools (e.g. Argo CD GitHub Actions)
- Experience with streaming protocols and codecs (e.g. TS HEVC H.264 HLS CMAF SCTE35 SCTE224 ESAM SRT/RIST)
- Experience with IP networking and interfacing with cloudbased networks
- Experience with containerization (Docker & Kubernetes)
- Comfortable building and operating infrastructure within a large enterprise interfacing with multiple technology teams
- Excellent communicator and able to clearly articulate complex issues and technologies
- Expert with broadcast playout systems (master control) technologies
- Expert with public cloud specifically building environments using AWS services
- Comfortable working in a fastpaced agile environment. Requirements change quickly and our team needs to constantly adapt to meet objectives
- An automatefirst and automate everything attitude
- Ability to use Agile process for project management development & tracking
Desired Characteristics:
- Experience with cloud native playout vendor solutions (Amagi Evertz GrassValley Harmonic Imagine CoralBay Veset etc.)
- Experience with DevSecOps principles
- Ability to create user interface designs based on client workflows
Additional Requirements:
- Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a nonNBCUniversal worksite most commonly an employees residence.
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: $(bonus eligible)
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an inperson interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals 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 .
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.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
