Welcome to *** Discovery... the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are...
When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next...
From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
We are hiring Senior Software Engineer to join ourLive DevOpsteam hereat WBDwith a focus on CDN and origin management, who will also implement new solutions, triage issues to resolution and provide dedicated support during product launches and high-profile events.
The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have successfullydelivered high-end experiences directly to consumers. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a key i *** uencer in your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment in making trade-offs *** ween im *** te and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers.
About the team
The Live DevOps team isresponsible fortheCDN infrastructure for the WBD brands like *** , *** , *** , *** and NCAA,and MAX.Thisincludesmanaging thelivestreamingandon demand videoorigins,integrating and maintaining our video and site infrastructureacrossmultiple CDN partners andsupporting our brands as we bring best in class experiences directly to our consumers.Additionally, we also manage the infrastructurefor thelive channels that feed our direct-to-consumer platforms for both linear and event-based workflows.We leverage automation where possible and collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovateacross your systems.
Responsibilities
•Collaborate closely with development teams and technical teams to provide resilient solutions to achieve business goals. Solutions can consist of software and services, commercial software, services and systems as well as open source software.
•Solutions Consultation: collaborate with business unitand third-party ser *** providesfor new products or product enhancements that may alter performance and availability of products, services or infrastructure components
•Configuration Management: author, deploy, and maintain system, web site and application configuration management code and configuration
•Perform platform configuration, capacity planning, monitoring, alert configuration and Tier 2 incident response.
•Plan and execute the integration of internet-based products and services in an efficient, secure, scalable, reliable and cost-effective manner.
•Incident Response: Execute day to day maintenance tasks including problem determination and resolution, as well as root-cause analysis and responsibility responding to live site issues
•Automation/Tooling: author, maintain and document custom tools and programs that reduce the number of manual processes necessary for daily operational support
•Product Testing: provides support for integration testing, system testing, and load/performance testing prior to final release of new and upgraded products and services
•Documentation: provide and maintain documentation of systems architecture, troubleshooting and support guidelines, system metrics, project information and plans
•Operational system support of various internet properties including streaming video and site deployment
Requirements
•5 years of experience providing operational support of internet delivered products
•Content Delivery Network (CDN) platform experiencewithone or several of these vendors:Akamai, CloudFront, Fastly,Edgio, Lumen,orGoogle *** CDN
•Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS and HTTP
•Inter *** te skills in a shell programming language such as:bsh,ksh,zsh,powershell, etc.
•Inter *** te skills in one or more common, cross-platform programming languages such as: Python, Ruby, Perl, Java,Go,etc.
•Basic knowledge of web application content and its effects on end-user experience: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, etc.
•Experience troubleshooting web application issues using commonly available tools such as:FireBug, Charles Proxy, Chrome Developer Tools, curl, etc.
•Inter *** te skills managing one or more application layer load balancing and caching solutions such as: F5 Big-IP, NetScaler,HAProxy, Varnish, Apache Traffic Server, Memcached, etc.
•Experience configuring, deploying and supporting one or more web server platforms such as: Apache Tomcat, OracleGlassFish, Apache Geronimo, Red Hat JBoss, nginx, Apache HTTPD Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server, etc.
•Experience configuring, deploying, monitoring, tuning and supporting Java web applications
•Proficient in use of one or more popular centralized or distributed (preferred) source control tools and services such as: Git,Github, Bitbucket, SVN, CVS, etc. andTerraform
•Ability to work with minimal instructions on day-to-day work, able to consume and self-start with general instructions on new assignments. Participates in an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.
How We Get Things Done...
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
*** Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of *** Discovery's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $98,910.00 - $183,690.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, *** Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.
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