NBCUniversal

Principal DevOps Engineer

CR • Full TimeRemotePosted Today$180,000 – $230,000

Full TimeSeniorRemote

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Job Description

Company DescriptionNBCUniversal 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 stream

Key Highlights

Infrastructure & Networking Delivery: Lead the design of cloud networking, DNS strategies, and cross-account connectivity across hybrid environments, automating VPC topology and dynamic network routing.
Technical Leadership: Serve as a technical authority for the team. Write RFCs, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and establish high-confidence CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and GitHub Actions automation.
Access & Security 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 continuous delivery (Flux, Kustomize, Helm) and manage configuration-as-code for compute fleets using Puppet. Ensure deep operational visibility by designing comprehensive observability and alerting stacks.
VDI Integration: Oversee the integration of remote desktop/VDI connectivity solutions, focusing on session authentication, credential management, and gateway routing.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Experience: 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure and cloud-native platforms at enterprise 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 generation, 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 enterprise 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, Route 53, and S3.
GitOps Delivery: Production experience with GitOps tooling, specifically Flux (HelmRelease, Kustomization) or ArgoCD for continuous delivery on Kubernetes.
Configuration Management: Hands-on experience with Puppet, including module development, PuppetDB, Hiera, and r10k.
APIs & Security: Experience designing REST APIs with middleware patterns and modern authentication (OAuth/JWT). Keen eye for information security, including cross-account IAM trust chains, least-privilege policies, JWT token lifecycles, and secrets abstraction.
Observability: Strong background in designing telemetry platforms using Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, Loki, OpenTelemetry, and metrics collection agents (Alloy, Prometheus 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 decisions to executives, engage with vendors, and write clear technical documentation.

Skills & Technologies

KubernetesGoAWSCI/CDGitHub ActionsPostgreSQLBash

About the Company

NBCUniversal

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Job Details

Employment Type

Full Time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary Range

$180,000 – $230,000

Location

CR • Full Time

Work Mode

Remote

Posted

Today