Sr Cloud Automation Engineer

About the position

The Sr Cloud Automation Engineer is responsible for helping design solutions in our post-production automation platform. The ideal candidate will gather requirements from both production and engineering clients and translate them into development projects. The candidate will also have a deep understanding of the existing software and hardware infrastructure to determine the best approaches to the clients’ needs.

Responsibilities

• Research, design and implement new solutions for moving automation to the public cloud.
• Manage large data models to facilitate reporting of any event captured by the automation platform.
• Enable integration of cognitive services to our automation pipeline and management of the data derived from those services.
• Set up and manage proof of concepts (POCs) in partnership with our cloud infrastructure team and vendors.
• Provide findings along with cost analysis of the solutions.
• Collaborate with Engineering Workflow team as needed to find cloud-based automated solutions to meet client workflow requests.
• Assist with the Development QA process during the monthly testing phase.
• Create and maintain documentation and train other team members on new implementations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of overall experience in DevOps and/or data architecture
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience with Azure Functions and AWS Lambda
• Experience in containerization infrastructure and concepts, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience in cloud-based data lakes and data warehouses and related tools, such as Azure Synapse and AWS Redshift.
• Experience with Azure cognitive services and AWS equivalent
• Experience with vector and graph database and large language models
• Experience in Development QC Processes
• Proficient in scripting and automation tools, including PowerShell.

Nice-to-haves

• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Experience with post-production automation tools, such as Telestream Vantage.
• Experience with object storage, such as S3 and Azure Blob
• Experience using APIs (in particular REST) to integrate with third parties.
• Ability to work remotely effectively with others across geographical locations.
• Must be flexible and adaptable to changing requirements and schedules.
• Strong interpersonal skills and adept at building relationships with all technical and operational areas across NBCU.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Variety of other discounts and perks