Manager, Playout Engineering

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 on-prem 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, on-demand, 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 fast-paced 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 on-call 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 on-call support select weeks Manage highly reliable, enterprise scale on-air systems Leadership in creating monitoring dashboards / automated alerting using Splunk & Grafana