The Role
NBCUniversal keeps a small, opinionated engineering team in Joliet, and the next opinion we need belongs to a Site Reliability Engineer. The reward structure favors doers: $103,000 - $147,000 upfront, real technology ownership, and a NBCUniversal team pulling the same direction.
Key Responsibilities
- Land GitOps performance wins NBCUniversal can measure in IL retention numbers
- Pair-program tricky Organization edge cases with engineers across Joliet, IL
- Build the Incident Response tooling that makes every other Joliet engineer faster
- Translate the sharp-but-gentle Go outage into fixes that make the next Joliet launch dull
- Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput NBCUniversal workloads
- Walk technology stakeholders through CKA Certification tradeoffs in language NBCUniversal execs grasp
What You'll Bring
- The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
- Around 5+ years of hands-on experience in a technology role
- Sharp written and verbal communication, tested under scrutiny
- A boldly-pragmatic attitude and eagerness to learn new skills
- Comfort with internship arrangements and the rhythms of a small-but-mighty workplace
NBCUniversal has spent 7 years turning technology headaches into routine wins for clients across Joliet, IL. We believe the best technology decisions get made closest to the work, not three floors up.
We provide $103,000 - $147,000, a wellness budget, retirement matching, and clear milestones for moving up to the next senior.
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Skills
- CloudFormation
- Pulumi
- Incident Response
- GitOps
- Observability
- PostgreSQL
- Go
- OpenShift
- CKA Certification
- Organization
- Project Management
- Teamwork
Benefits
- Book Allowance
- Flat organizational structure
- Equipment and hardware allowance
- Referral bonus program
- Telemedicine and virtual care access
- Biometric screenings
- Student loan repayment assistance