{"id":3894650,"url":"https://alion.io/job/nbcuniversal-sr-site-reliability-engineer-playout","title":"Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Playout","company":{"id":18514,"name":"NBCUniversal","domain":"nbcuniversal.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/nbcuniversal-com","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":83,"open_postings":16,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.875,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":20,"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Miami, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Perl","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Ruby","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-06T19:54:40Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-06","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T11:59:52Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"NBCUniversal 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, NBC News, 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 Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, 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. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.\nOur 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 develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.\n NBCU is looking for creative engineers willing to learn from the current process but are not afraid to think outside of the box. This role is responsible for the engineering, operations, support, deployment and maintenance of core Distribution Engineering Playout systems, both on-premises and cloud.\nResponsibilities\nDevelop automated methods to provision, upgrade and monitor Distribution Engineering infrastructure and tools\nDevelop proof of concept deployments for evaluation of products and architectures\nIdentify single points of failure for new/existing systems; propose & deploy more reliable scalable solutions\nResponsible for driving product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging, and production environments, integrating with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tooling, monitoring, and change management\nMentor SRE’s on best DevOps practices\nDeploy cloud infrastructure and associated playout software using CI/CD methodologies\nInteract with automated monitoring infrastructure to ensure healthy environments\nCreate new metrics and identify monitoring deliverables to improve site reliability\nEvaluate new software releases for basic reliability and systems integration support\nDevelop future products and services for NBCU's IP video distribution environment\nDrive and own investigations related to Broadcast issues and report back findings in a timely manner to leadership and operations.\nStay current with AI-driven engineering practices while ensuring appropriate validation, security and responsible use of AI-generated outputs. \nThis role requires on-call 24/7 support on a rotating shift schedule\n Qualifications/Requirements\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related degree\nStrong experience with IP video, streaming and broadcast technologies\n5+ yrs. experience in modern infrastructure deployment and maintenance\n5+ yrs. experience with enterprise configuration management tools and automation platforms (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)\nExpert architecting / configuring hosted cloud services in (e.g. AWS, GCP or Azure)\nExpert with networking and cloud-based network environments\nExpert with containerization & Kubernetes\nExperience with CI/CD build and deployment practices\nExperience in administrating Linux environments\nMust have an automate-first and automate everything attitude\nExperience with multiple scripting languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby or Bash)\nAbility to use Agile process for project management, development & tracking\nDemonstrate AI literacy, including the ability to identify opportunities to apply AI in monitoring, automation, problem management, and reliability improvement.\nComfortable working in a fast-paced agile environment. Requirements change quickly and our team needs to adapt to moving targets\nDesired Characteristics\nExperience with a variety of software and hardware operating environments\nFamiliarity with monitoring/logging tools\nGood communicator and able to clearly articulate complex issues and technologies\nGreat design and problem-solving skills\nWilling to take ownership of problems and see them through to resolution\nExperience with DevSecOps principles\nAbility to create user interface designs based on client workflows \nAdditional Requirements\nHybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.\n\n 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. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.\nIf you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to .","description_format":"text","description_chars":5832,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Broadcasting","Film Production","Theme Parks & Attractions","Streaming & OTT Platforms"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-06T22:43:11Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":false,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":6,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"Offered visa sponsorship in 6 of its adverts here in 24 months","filings_12m":0,"filings_prev_12m":0,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-08T10:45:15+00:00","sources":["Alion: sponsorship offered in the employer's own job adverts (24 months)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nbcuniversal-sr-site-reliability-engineer-playout","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nbcuniversal-sr-site-reliability-engineer-playout.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-08T15:41:34Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":33091,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":18514},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=18514"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnbcuniversal-sr-site-reliability-engineer-playout"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnbcuniversal-sr-site-reliability-engineer-playout"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnbcuniversal-sr-site-reliability-engineer-playout"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/nbcuniversal-sr-site-reliability-engineer-playout\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnbcuniversal-sr-site-reliability-engineer-playout"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3894650}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"nbcuniversal.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3894650},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}