Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join NBCUniversal's Cloud Enablement and Acceleration team as a Sr Staff Software Engineer. You will provide technical leadership in developing and defining core pipelines for automating and managing cloud control planes for AWS, Azure, and GCP. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining the backend of Public Cloud as a Product, working with various teams to deliver optimal services and tools. You will mentor engineering teams, ensuring they have the necessary skills and knowledge. The ideal candidate is passionate about teaching and driving innovation, focusing on improving current processes. This is a fully remote position with competitive benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, experience, and training in Computer Science or a related field
• 12+ years of experience in public cloud infrastructure and tools, software development, and automation
• Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, or an equivalent
• Understanding of Application Lifecycle Management tools, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Version Control, Testing Frameworks and DevSecOps with an eye on FinOps
• Proficient with the management and designs of AWS Organizations / Control Tower and Azure CAF. Experience with productizing Service Catalog service offerings
• Strong proven proficiency with core cloud networking components, such as VPCs / VNets, IAM, DX / ExpressRoute, and the best practices around other AWS or Azure tools and services
• Provided mentorship to grow the technical skills and careers of others with consideration of their career stage and personal trajectory
• Passion for DevOps culture, automation, and modern tooling
• Ability to communicate effectively depending on the audience technical teams, business teams, and leadership teams
• Ability to write technical documentation (platform architecture, strategy, engineering etc.)
• Demonstrated leadership skills in a fast-paced, team-driven environment. Grasp the big picture, while still delivering on the details
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams responsible for developing and defining the core pipelines for automating and managing the Cloud Control Planes
• Articulate a vision and drive execution of cloud platform automation, extending to code reviews, technical design and operability and observability of the platforms
• Participate in designing, building and maintaining the backend of Public Cloud as a Product at NBCU
• Work in consultation with Cyber, Network Services, the broader NBCU developer population, and engineering leadership to deliver the best services, tools, and processes that will ensure we are enabling our customers to achieve cloud acceleration and maturity
• Work with engineering teams and leadership to ensure development teams are appropriately equipped with the knowledge, skills and tools required to perform their job effectively
• Drive and deliver tools and self-service capabilities that allow teams to securely maintain their workloads in the cloud
• Write technical documentation (platform architecture, strategy, engineering etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience driving the adoption of release automation through self-service pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to conceive, manage, and complete project deliverables
• Strong networking skills and experience are highly desirable
• Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests required
• Experience delivering software using an agile development process
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively connect with both business and technical teams
• Ability to work and participate in a team with an open and collaborative style of communications
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as part of a cross-functional team

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• A variety of other discounts and perks