Senior Platform Engineer I (Kubernetes)

Location: Glendale, California, United States. Hybrid schedule requiring work from the office at least four days per week; up to 5% domestic travel and possible in-person interview attendance.

Salary: Up to $189,051 per year.

Company

NBCUniversal is a media and entertainment company producing and distributing film, television, streaming, news, and theme-park content, including through hirify.global Animation.

What you will do

• Develop compute, storage, database, and platform solutions across on-premises environments, public clouds, data centers, and multiple cloud providers.
• Design and implement CI/CD platforms as a service for internal studio products.
• Automate application deployment and administration across environments using Kubernetes operators and Spinnaker pipelines.
• Define Infrastructure-as-Code workflows, processes, standards, and release-management practices.
• Improve platform reliability through chaos engineering, continuous testing, monitoring, capacity management, and performance optimization.
• Provide tier-3 on-call troubleshooting and break-fix support, communicate technical risks and recommendations to executive stakeholders, and participate in continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent foreign degree, plus 8 years of experience in the offered role or a related occupation in the animation industry.
• 8 years of experience with revision control and DevOps best practices, including Git; expert Linux experience with Red Hat and CentOS; animation artists’ production pipelines, including backend applications for farm rendering, asset management, and catalog management; CI/CD tools and platforms such as Spinnaker, Drone, Jenkins, Ansible, and Argo; and release management, versioning, branching, and deployment strategies.
• 7 years of experience with production-critical systems and workflows; operational support, infrastructure monitoring, and troubleshooting using Datadog, Prometheus, or similar tools; and multiple programming languages including Java, Go, and Python.
• 5 years of experience with cloud-native technologies and architecture, including Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• 5 years of experience supporting production artists and supervising Technical Directors through P1 and P2 incident handling for high-performance rendering workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Eligible for company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, discounts, and additional benefits.
• Inclusive workplace focused on community impact and creating content that reflects diverse audiences.
• Full-time schedule of 40 hours per week.