Staff DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

Lead DevOps and platform engineering initiatives to foster a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous delivery. Design and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to support data-driven advertising, machine learning, and AI-powered applications.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in a related field and 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE. Candidates must possess strong hands-on expertise in AWS, Terraform, container orchestration, and building secure, scalable cloud architectures.

Skills

• DevOps
• Platform Engineering
• AWS
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code
• Observability
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Cloud Architecture
• Machine Learning
• AI
• Python
• GitOps
• Security

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid leave
• Tuition reimbursement

About this role

Company 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.
Our 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.
Job Description
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.
You 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.
Responsibilities:
Develop 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.
Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines that automate software delivery, infrastructure deployment, platform provisioning, and operational workflows.
Architect, deploy, and manage scalable AWS cloud infrastructure supporting applications, data, machine learning, and AI workloads.
Implement and manage containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS) to ensure consistent, secure, and resilient environments across development, testing, and production.
Establish and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and Git Ops practices to improve platform consistency, governance, and operational efficiency.
Build and support ML Ops and AI platform capabilities, including model deployment automation, inference platform operations, AI workflow orchestration, secure API integration, and lifecycle management for AI-enabled services.
Enable secure integration of AI platforms, LLM-based applications, vector databases, agent frameworks, and machine learning services while ensuring compliance with enterprise security and governance standards.
Develop observability solutions using logging, monitoring, tracing, and operational analytics platforms to proactively detect performance issues, infrastructure anomalies, security risks, and AI workload health concerns.
Design scalable cloud architectures that support high availability, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and AI workload scalability.
Partner with Security, Data, and Architecture teams to implement cloud security controls, identity and access management, secrets management, and compliance requirements across traditional and AI-enabled platforms.
Drive automation of infrastructure operations, environment provisioning, platform governance, and operational processes to reduce manual effort and improve developer productivity.
Maintain comprehensive documentation, operational runbooks, architecture standards, and platform governance processes
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering, including experience operating at a senior or technical leadership level.
Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, including building, deploying, and maintaining cloud infrastructure at scale.
Deep experience with AWS and core cloud services such as EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, and VPC networking.
Strong experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes, EKS/ECS, and Docker.
Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using technologies such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools.
Experience supporting high-traffic, high-throughput consumer-facing applications or platforms, with demonstrated knowledge of scalability, performance, availability, and ...

About NBCUniversal

Entertainment Providers · 10,001+ employees · headquartered in New York City, NY