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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 As the Staff DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for leading our DevOps and platform engineering initiatives, fostering a culture of automation, continuous integration, observability, reliability, and delivery. Your efforts will support consumer data-driven advertising and marketing products, standardized consumer identity solutions, machine learning platforms, and emerging AI-powered applications across NBCUniversal and its brands.\nYou will partner with engineering, data, security, and AI teams to design and operate scalable cloud platforms that enable application development, analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads. Your expertise in AWS services, Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, observability, platform automation, and cloud architecture will be critical in building secure, resilient, and cost-effective environments that accelerate innovation while maintaining enterprise governance and operational excellence. You will operate in an individual contributor capacity, but as a Staff Engineer, you will lead and mentor more junior DevOps Engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and platform-first thinking.\nResponsibilities:\nDevelop and lead the implementation of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to improve the efficiency, scalability, reliability, and security of cloud-based applications and services. \nDesign, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines that automate software delivery, infrastructure deployment, platform provisioning, and operational workflows. \nArchitect, deploy, and manage scalable AWS cloud infrastructure supporting applications, data, machine learning, and AI workloads. \nImplement and manage containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS) to ensure consistent, secure, and resilient environments across development, testing, and production. \nEstablish 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