Senior Platform Operations Engineer

Job Description

Responsibilities
The Senior Platform Operations Engineer will be a key member of our Platform Operations Team, helping to build and support the core infrastructure of the SportsEngine Platform services and products through activities and key responsibilities that include:
• Contributing to efforts that ensure the continuous and smooth running of the SportsEngine platform while serving a large volume of traffic.
• Leveraging Amazon Web Services to build highly available services for the SportsEngine infrastructure platform built on top of the EKS, RDS and EC2.
• Developing Infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform.
• Helping to foster a culture of cooperation, coordination, and continuous learning within the Platform Operations Team and with other Product Development teams throughout SportsEngine.
• Working closely with the SportsEngine Cyber Security Team to maintain and improve the security of the SportsEngine Platform.
• Contributing to and using our GitHub Pull Request-centered development pipeline as we continuously deliver value to our customers.
• Using tools such as NewRelic, Splunk and Datadog to monitor the health of the SportsEngine platform.
• Being an advocate for quality code and engineering practices that enable Continuous Delivery.
• Participation in a sustainable on-call schedule.

Qualifications/Requirements
• 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.
• A proven foundation in modern infrastructure practices and the ability to deploy and operate maintainable, scalable secure infrastructure.
• Ability to write quality, modular, maintainable, secure, and testable infrastructure automation.
• A team-oriented attitude and seemingly endless intellectual curiosity.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Interested candidates must;
• Submit a resume/CV through www.nbcunicareers.com to be considered.
• Participate in a rotational ''on call'' schedule (24 hours a day / 7 days a week)

Successful candidates will be required to;
• Submit an attestation disclosing COVID-19 vaccination status and, if partially or fully vaccinated, submitting their vaccination record no later than 7 days following commencement of employment.
• Be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at the commencement of employment or adhere to enhanced protocols if Company determines your job position requires accessing an NBCUniversal worksite.
• Be willing to adhere to all Company COVID-19 workplace safety policies and protocols.

Desired Characteristics

You will have the edge over the competition if you can demonstrate any of the following;
• Experience in the following areas of AWS:
- EC2
- VPC – Subnets, Security Groups, NAT Gateways, Transit Gateways, ELB/ALB/NLB etc.
- IAM
- S3
- Managed data tiers - RDS/Elasticache etc.
• Experience in production with;
- EKS
- OpsWorks
- Lambda
- DynamoDB
• 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 etc
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Ability to author Terraform at a proficient level
- Ability to break out reusable, opinionated and standardized actions into reusable Terraform modules
- Chef/Ansible

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