DevOps, Backend Lead

Our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn’t stop there. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive. The Peacock Sports & Entertainment team is looking to add a talented DevOps/Backend Lead to be part of our Cloud Architecture/Backend Engineering team within the overall Engineering Organization.We are looking for a dynamic team player who has the initiative, drive and passion for building great product and services leveraging latest tools and technology. You will be working on high visibility applications serving millions of users for industry-leading sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, Olympics, Premier League, and America’s Got Talent amongst others. You will become a part of a team that builds and supports applications for global client portfolio that spans Web, mobile, connected television and streaming platforms, delivering video on demand and live contents to millions of users.You will participate in architecture design and discussions related to CDN, Microservices API’s, CMS, and databases, running on AWS, Akamai and other cloud services providers, for a highly resilient and scalable global web and streaming platform products, services, and components.You will be responsible for leading and coordinating efforts with system architecture team, cloud architecture team along with backend and performance engineering teams.You will work with your peers in other disciplines and support the development teams for our streaming applications by leveraging data driven approach to drive recommendations for future improvements in the overall deployment and application architecture.If you relish having your efforts on display for millions of users - this is your opportunity.ResponsibilitiesLead Architecture sessions and technical discussion on application/backend API’s, CMS (Drupal), and deployment architecture across teamsLead Engineering/Development effort of Drupal CMS and content as a service RESTful API’s and other operational and maintenance scripts along with the guiding the application development team on best practices for including logging and traceability within the code base and or using third party tools.Work with development teams to identify roadblocks before they occur and help develop mitigating plans of actionStandup and maintain various development, testing, staging and production environments for CMS and other backend API’s.Ensure that the cloud native services and components adheres to the AWS well architected pillars of operational, security, reliability, performance, and cost.Participate, facilitate, and/or lead large or complex troubleshooting activities that require significant judgment and reasoning outside area of expertise Communicate, plan, provide status, and resolve issues related to CDN, CMS, backend API’s and cloud engineering initiatives.