NBC Sports Next is where sports and technology intersect. We’re a subdivision of NBC Sports and home to all NBCUniversal digital applications in sports and technology within our three groups: Youth & Recreational Sports; Golf; and Betting, Gaming & Emerging Media.  

　　At NBC Sports Next, we make playing sports better through innovative technology and immersive experiences for athletes, coaches, players and fans. We equip more than 30MM players, coaches, athletes, sports administrators and fans in 40 countries with more than 25 sports solution products, including SportsEngine (http://www.sportsengine.com/) , the largest youth sports club, league and team management platform; GolfNow (http://www.golfnow.com/) , the leading online tee time marketplace and provider of golf course operations technology; GolfPass (https://www.golfpass.com/)  the ultimate golf membership that connects golfers to exclusive content, tee time credits, and coaching, tips; TeamUnify (https://www.teamunify.com/swim-team-management-software/) , swim team management services; GoMotion (https://www.gomotionapp.com/solutions) , sports and fitness business software solutions; and NBC Sports Edge (https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/) , a leading platform for fantasy sports information and betting-focused tools.  

　　At NBC Sports Next we’re fueled by our mission to innovate, create larger-than-life events and connect with sports fans through technology that provides the ultimate in immersive experiences.  

　　GolfNow/NBC Sports Digital are seeking to hire a Senior DevOps Engineer. You’ll be joining a dedicated, ambitious, and diverse team who are focused on delivering operational excellence inside the NBC Sports Next organisation.

　　You will work collaboratively with Engineering, Quality, Product and Security teams to build, deploy and operate GolfNow Products across Domestic and International.

　　You will be responsible for automating and improving our build and deploy processes; monitoring and operations; public and private cloud infrastructure; troubleshooting and resolution across dev, test and production globally.

　　This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious engineer to be involved in the world’s largest golf technology company backed by Comcast/NBCUniversal/Sky with the opportunity to make a difference.

　　Operational Support and Maintenance:

　　Using APM and other tools you will monitor production systems; remediating production issues and implementing performance/cost improvements

　　Identify capacity and performance issues to ensure we meet our SLAs

　　Documentation of services and processes

　　Participate in sustainable on-call schedule

　　Infrastructure:

　　Design, implement and manage production grade services in Public clouds (AWS/GCP) using a variety of technologies, ensuring geographic redundancy, security and best practices

　　Work with on-premise teams to deploy applications

　　Build/manage large Kubernetes footprint deployed on Google Cloud Platform

　　Install and manage web and backend services in a high throughput, multi-technology e-commerce environment

　　Build/Deploy:

　　Design and implement CI/CD processes and tooling

　　Ensure “shift-left” is implemented in our build and deploy processes in collaboration with Security teams

　　Ensure pre-production environments are built and managed

　　Perform deployments of high throughput revenue generating applications

　　Innovation:

　　Work with the DevOps team to champion new processes, tools and technologies in collaboration with Engineering

　　Constantly striving to find a better way

　　Participate and lead Proof of Concepts for new approaches/tooling

　　Hands on experience with public cloud providers; AWS and GCP preferred

　　Experience deploying and operating enterprise scale applications in high throughput production environments

　　Hands on experience provisioning Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation

　　Hands on experience of managing services with configuration management tools, Ansible preferred

　　Strong experience in Continuous Integration tools such as Teamcity, Jenkins, Github Actions or Gitlab CI

　　Experience building production grade services with fault tolerance for zonal and regional issues in public clouds

　　Experience capturing metrics and monitoring cloud infrastructure

　　A working understanding of code and scripting (Java, JavaScript, PHP, Nodejs, Golang, .NET, Python etc.)

　　Experience in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment using source control tools like git with git-flow branching strategies

　　Required Experience:

　　Proven ability to take project requirements and build scalable, robust and cost effective solutions

　　5+ years working as an SRE/DevOps/Operations Engineer

　　2+ years working with Kubernetes in a production environment

　　2+ years Linux System administration experience (Redhat or Debian variants)

　　2+ years Windows Server administration experience

　　2+ years production experience configuring web servers e.g. IIS, Nginx, Apache

　　2+ years production experience working with a Public Cloud Provider (GCP/AWS)

　　Production experience with CI/CD pipelines, e.g. Jenkins, Teamcity, Gitlab CI, Bamboo, Github Actions

　　Proficient in a scripting language such as BASH, Perl, Python, Powershell etc

　　Proficient with source control technologies such as Git

　　Desirable Experience

　　Experience with Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ and MongoDB

　　Experience with APM and alerting tools (AppDynamics / Datadog / NewRelic / OpsGenie / PagerDuty)

　　Proficient with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet

　　Experience with software development and supporting developers

　　Build automation/CI tooling including one of the following:

　　Jenkins

　　Teamcity

　　Bamboo

　　Gitlab CI

　　Github Actions

　　Experience with Infrastructure as a Code tools e.g. Terraform / CloudFormation

　　Experience with image creation tools like HashiCorp Packer

　　Experience with WAF/CDN services such as Cloudflare/Cloudfront/Akamai/Fastly etc

　　Knowledge of load balancing software and hardware (F5, HAProxy, Nginx, GCP GLB, AWS ELB/ALB)

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