NBCUniversal

NBCUniversal

Principal DevOps Engineer

New York, NEW YORK, United States · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$230kDetected 21 days ago
GoBashNode.jsGitPostgreSQLSQLiteAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesHelmCI/CDGitHub ActionsPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsRESTOAuthSystems EngineeringDNSEpicLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving

About the role

  • NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.
  • NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
  • Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.

Responsibilities

  • Systems Engineering & Integrations: Design, build, and maintain production-grade Kubernetes operators, controllers, and internal platform APIs in Go.
  • You will actively develop custom Crossplane providers to deeply integrate external enterprise platforms (such as NRCS, Venafi, and Infoblox) into our control plane, managing resource lifecycles and approval workflows.
  • Cross-Discipline Collaboration: Partner closely with broadcast systems engineers, system integrators, and external vendors to bridge the gap between broadcast hardware and automated infrastructure.
  • You will lead 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 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.
  • Databases: Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, SQLite or similar relational databases, encompassing schema design, migrations, and query optimization.
  • Design, build, and maintain production-grade Kubernetes operators, controllers, and internal platform APIs in Go.
  • Write RFCs, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and establish high-confidence CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and GitHub Actions automation.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure and cloud-native platforms at enterprise scale.
  • Strong proficiency in Go (systems-level programming, API servers) and deep experience building Kubernetes controllers/operators using patterns like controller-runtime and kubebuilder.
  • Expert-level knowledge of the Kubernetes ecosystem, including CRD/XRD generation, operators, informers, admission webhooks, and RBAC.
  • Deep production experience with Crossplane, including composite resources, composition functions, and specifically developing custom Crossplane providers in Go to integrate external enterprise platforms.
  • Extensive production experience with AWS multi-account architectures, cross-account networking patterns, and identity federation.
  • Production experience with GitOps tooling, specifically Flux (HelmRelease, Kustomization) or ArgoCD for continuous delivery on Kubernetes.
  • Hands-on experience with Puppet, including module development, PuppetDB, Hiera, and r10k.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills with a proven ability to present architectural decisions to executives, engage with vendors, and write clear technical documentation.
  • Familiarity with advanced testing frameworks (k6, KUTTL, etc), SOPS for encrypted GitOps configurations, and local development workflows (Air, kind/colima).
  • Ability to script routine tasks in Bash and PowerShell.

Nice to have

  • 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 (NICE DCV, Leostream, PCoIP, etc), machine identity workflows, and PKI certificate management (Venafi or similar).
  • Ecosystem Tooling: Familiarity with advanced testing frameworks (k6, KUTTL, etc), SOPS for encrypted GitOps configurations, and local development workflows (Air, kind/colima).
  • Scripting: Ability to script routine tasks in Bash and PowerShell.
  • Open Source: Active contributions to open-source projects, particularly within the CNCF / Kubernetes ecosystem.

Compensation

  • $180,000 - $230,000 (bonus eligible)
  • As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision.
  • You can request reasonable accommodations by emailing AccessibilitySupport@nbcuni.com.

Company info

  • Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work.
  • We are looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to architect and evolve the platform that powers NBC's broadcast production environments.

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