Sr Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Control Plane (Azure/ GCP)

Job Description

The Cloud Enablement and Acceleration team plays a critical role around the design, implementation, and maintenance of the Cloud Control Planes for Azure, GCP and AWS. The Control Planes consists of account / subscription / project factories with tooling, automation, and guardrails to help teams utilize the cloud in an easy and safe manner extending to governance, identity management, network enablement and observability of the clouds.

The Sr Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership to the engineering teams responsible for developing and defining the core pipelines for automating and managing the Cloud Control Planes. In this role, you will articulate a vision and drive execution of cloud platform automation, extending to code reviews, technical design and operability and observability of the platforms. You will participate in designing, building and maintaining the backend of Public Cloud as a Product at NBCU. This role includes working 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. A key aspect of this role is working with engineering teams and leadership to ensure development teams are appropriately equipped with the knowledge, skills and tools required to perform their job effectively. The ideal candidate will have respect for the past, but focus on driving innovation for what we do today to improve how we do it tomorrow. A passion for teaching others along the way will be key.

Qualifications

• 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
• Demonstrable experience as developer and the ability to guide others in the development process
• Passion for DevOps culture, automation, and modern tooling.
• Ability to communicate effectively depending on the audience technical teams, business teams, and leadership teams.
• Drive and deliver tools and self-service capabilities that allow teams to securely maintain their workloads in the cloud.
• 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.

Desired Characteristics:

• 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

Additional Requirements:

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

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $145,000 - $170,000 (bonus eligible)

We are accepting applications for this position on an ongoing basis.

Additional Information

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