Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Playout

Role summary

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Playout is a role at NBCUniversal in Stamford, Connecticut, United States (hybrid). Posted 2026-08-11. Experience level: 10+.

Job title

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Playout

Company

NBCUniversal

Location

Stamford, Connecticut, United States

Work arrangement

hybrid

Category

DevOps & Infrastructure

Experience level

10+

Date posted

2026-08-11

Job description

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Job Description

NBCUniversal Operations & Technology is looking for a Staff SRE, Playout Engineering to provide technical leadership to a team of Site Reliability Engineers. This team drives reliability, observability, and operational excellence for cloud-based master control playout systems supporting all NBCUniversal live linear channels – NBC, Telemundo, Peacock Virtual Channels, etc.

In this position, you will shape the reliability strategy for live linear playout—defining service levels, improving resiliency, and strengthening monitoring and incident response—so the platform can meet evolving business needs with predictable performance and availability.

This role requires the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment. For systems in production, you will lead an on-call team and drive L1 and L2 troubleshooting, incident management and continuous improvement to maintain reliable distribution.

Responsibilities

Team lead for SRE engineers on playout Engineering team

Define and manage reliability targets (SLIs/SLOs) and operational readiness criteria for playout services

Drive incident response: establish on-call practices, lead major incident management, and ensure post-incident reviews result in measurable improvements

Partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to improve reliability through capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilience testing

Provide high-level conceptual drawings and operational runbooks to support architecture reviews, support readiness, and project planning

Leadership in driving automation to reduce toil and improve reliability and mean time to recovery (MTTR)

L1 & L2 support to maintain playout infrastructure/services for NBCUniversal including providing after hours on-call support select week

Leadership in creating monitoring dashboards (Grafana) and proper alerts(teams/slack/ServiceNow)

Qualifications

Qualifications/Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related degree / experience

Eight years’ hands-on-keyboard Engineering experience working with broadcast automation playout environments e.g. Snell, Harris, Imagine, Amagi

Requires on-call 24/7 availability for escalations

Hands-on-keyboard experience administrating Linux environments

Experience with monitoring/logging tools e.g. Splunk and Grafana

Experience with streaming protocols and codecs (e.g. TS, HEVC, H.264, HLS, CMAF, SCTE-35, SCTE-224, ESAM, SRT/RIST)

Experience with IP networking and interfacing with cloud-based networks

Experience with containerization (Docker & Kubernetes)

Excellent communicator and able to clearly articulate complex issues and technologies

Expert with broadcast playout systems (master control) technologies

Expert with public cloud environments using AWS services

Comfortable working in a fast-paced agile environment. Requirements change quickly and our team needs to constantly adapt to meet objectives

An automate-first and automate everything attitude

Desired Characteristics

Experience with cloud native playout vendor solutions (Amagi, Evertz, GrassValley, Harmonic, Imagine, CoralBay, Veset, etc.)

Experience building strong operational readiness practices (runbooks, alert tuning, on-call health, incident reviews)

Ability to create user interface designs based on client workflows

Additional Requirements:

Hybrid : This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to .

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