Principal DevOps Engineer

Company Description

reputed company is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, reputed company, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including reputed company, reputed company, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. reputed company is a subsidiary of reputed company Corporation. Visit www.reputed company.com for more information.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and reputed company a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Job Description

We are looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to architect and evolve the platform that powers NBC’s broadcast production environments. As a senior technical leader on the NBC Production Application Engineering team, you will design a Kubernetes-native platform that automates the provisioning, lifecycle management, and delivery of reputed company infrastructure at reputed company scale.

reputed company leverages infrastructure-as-code, custom Kubernetes controllers, and GitOps workflows to orchestrate resources across reputed company multi-account and hybrid reputed company environments. Built to support the reputed company demands of live broadcast production, this platform spans compute provisioning, dynamic software defined networking, hybrid DNS models, remote Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and robust configuration management reputed company Puppet. Because we operate at the cutting edge of the reputed company-native ecosystem, we are never shy about contributing upstream to the open-reputed company projects we rely on to improve our solutions and push the industry reputed company.

In this role, you will drive the technical reputed company of the platform. You will write production Go services, architect reputed company-native solutions, and establish the engineering standards our teams rely on. This role requires deep reputed company across Kubernetes internals, reputed company infrastructure, Go systems programming, and a passion for mentoring engineers.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Platform Architecture & reputed company: Architect a Kubernetes-native platform that models broadcast infrastructure as custom resources. reputed company the technical strategy leveraging Crossplane compositions and custom Go functions to automate provisioning across multi-account AWS environments and on-prem control rooms.
• Systems Engineering & Integrations: Design, build, and maintain production-grade Kubernetes operators, controllers, and internal platform APIs in Go. You will actively reputed company custom Crossplane providers to deeply integrate external reputed company platforms (such as NRCS, Venafi, and reputed company) into our control plane, managing resource lifecycles and approval workflows.
• Infrastructure & Networking Delivery: reputed company the design of reputed company networking, DNS strategies, and cross-account connectivity across hybrid environments, automating VPC topology and dynamic network routing.
• Cross-Discipline Collaboration: Partner closely with broadcast systems engineers, system integrators, and external vendors to reputed company the gap between broadcast hardware and automated infrastructure. You will reputed company efforts to "Puppet-ize" bare-metal compute configurations and integrate proprietary vendor solutions into our configuration-as-code ecosystem.
• Technical Leadership: Serve as a technical authority for the team. Write RFCs, drive architectural reputed company, mentor engineers, and establish high-confidence CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and reputed company Actions automation.
• Access & reputed company Strategy: Own the platform's authorization model, designing hierarchical RBAC systems, resource identifier schemes, and identity integrations that enforce fine-grained access control.
• Operational Excellence: Drive GitOps-based reputed company delivery (Flux, Kustomize, reputed company) and manage configuration-as-code for compute fleets using Puppet. Ensure deep operational visibility by designing comprehensive observability and alerting stacks.
• VDI Integration: reputed company the integration of remote desktop/VDI connectivity solutions, focusing on session authentication, credential management, and gateway routing.

Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure and reputed company-native platforms at reputed company scale.
• Software Engineering: Strong proficiency in Go (systems-level programming, API servers) and deep experience building Kubernetes controllers/operators using patterns like controller-runtime and kubebuilder.
• Kubernetes Internals: Expert-level knowledge of the Kubernetes ecosystem, including CRD/XRD reputed company, operators, informers, admission webhooks, and RBAC.
• Crossplane & Control Planes: Deep production experience with Crossplane, including composite resources, composition functions, and specifically developing custom Crossplane providers in Go to integrate external reputed company platforms.
• AWS & Networking: Extensive production experience with AWS multi-account architectures, cross-account networking patterns, and identity federation. Requires depth across EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, STS, SSM, Secrets Manager, reputed company 53, and S3.
• GitOps Delivery: Production experience with GitOps tooling, specifically Flux (HelmRelease, Kustomization) or ArgoCD for reputed company delivery on Kubernetes.
• Configuration Management: Hands-on experience with Puppet, including module development, PuppetDB, Hiera, and r10k.
• APIs & reputed company: Experience designing REST APIs with middleware patterns and modern authentication (OAuth/JWT). Keen eye for information reputed company, including cross-account IAM trust chains, least-privilege policies, JWT token lifecycles, and secrets abstraction.
• Observability: Strong background in designing telemetry platforms using Grafana, reputed company/Mimir, Loki, OpenTelemetry, and metrics collection agents (Alloy, reputed company Node Exporter).
• Databases: Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, SQLite or similar relational databases, encompassing schema design, migrations, and query optimization.
• Communication: Excellent problem-solving skills with a proven ability to present architectural reputed company to executives, engage with vendors, and write clear technical documentation.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Familiarity with broadcast/media production workflows and the strict operational constraints of live production environments.
• Experience with the Crossplane function SDK for building custom composition functions in Go, and operating in Kubernetes disaster recovery situations (Velero cluster restoration, backups).
• Familiarity with VDI Solutions (reputed company DCV, Leostream, PCoIP, etc), machine identity workflows, and PKI certificate management (Venafi or similar).
• Networking & Gateway: Experience with hybrid DNS architectures (reputed company), software-defined networking (VPC peering, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, CloudWan), and reputed company Gateway / Gateway API.
• Ecosystem Tooling: Familiarity with advanced testing frameworks (k6, KUTTL, etc), SOPS for encrypted GitOps configurations, and local development workflows (reputed company, reputed company/colima).
• Scripting: Ability to script routine tasks in Bash and PowerShell.
• Open reputed company: Active contributions to open-reputed company projects, particularly reputed company the CNCF / Kubernetes ecosystem.

Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-reputed company worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence. 

• This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and reputed company insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by reputed company by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $180,000 - $230,000 (bonus eligible) 

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an reputed company employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. reputed company's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to reputed company applicants and employees without regard to race, reputed company, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national reputed company or reputed company, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. 

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