Welcome to Warner Bros. 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.
Senior Software Engineer – DevOps (Sports Team) Bangalore
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
For more information, please visit www.wbd.com
**Meet Our Team: **
This role is within WBD’s Sports Platform Engineering responsible for providing the tools, services, and observability to our flagship streaming and sports products. This role scope includes creating an easy-to-use platform built for developers to easily bring applications to market while upholding a high bar for quality. We do this by packing source control, building systems, pipelines, and deployment solutions in a self-serve service. We are a fast-growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD’s future. We need a senior developer who is comfortable turning the needs of our engineering community into thoughtful design and architecture, serving as a senior resource for other developers as they build software components.
Roles & Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer - DevOps you will collaborate with software application developers, security teams and other partners to drive on DevOps initiatives. - continuous integration/delivery, security, operational stability, and observability along with instilling best practices within the organization are primary focus areas.
- Design, build, test, and maintain our AWS infrastructure .
- Create, maintain, and participate in active monitoring of said infrastructure.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to streamline and automate development, build, and deployment of our web services.
- Triage production issues in collaboration with engineering teams.
- Participate in on-call rotations, project planning, code review, and technical design.
- Identify and effectively communicate opportunities for improvement both within the team and external teams .
- Design and evangelize DevOps processes for continuous improvements.
- Strong Linux & networking fundamentals.
- Strong scripting and automation mindset.
- Must have worked in an Agile SDLC setup.
- Ability in at least one or more general purpose languages such as Python or Shell. Open to polyglot other languages as and when needed.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with global team.
- AWS Security and remediation expertise.
- Ability to learn, build, and debug other programming languages.
- Hands on Containerization tools knowledge like – docker, kubernetes, helm, ECS.
- Expert in AWS DevOps Architecture – S3, Serverless (lambda, dynamodb, fargate), ALBs/NLBs, Global Accelerators, RDS, Cloudfront, Route53, ECS, EKS, Cost Explorer, IAM, etc.
- IAC/Provisioner experience; Terraform must-have. CloudFormation, Chef or Ansible is a plus.
- CI/CD knowledge with hands-on implementation experience. GitHub Actions and workflows knowledge is a plus. • Git/GitHub administration.
What to Bring
- 5- 8 years’ experience across two or more of the following: web application development, Linux administration, networking, cloud security, systems architecture, test automation, and/or database administration
- 3+ years building and maintaining software systems with AWS and GCP/Azure.
- 3+ years building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, etc.
- Experience maintaining AWS RDS. Exposure to Mongo Atlas Architecture is a plus.
- Proven experience with Terraform. Good to have knowledge on Ansible, Salt stack, Puppet, Chef, CloudFormation.
- Exposure to maintaining OpenSearch clusters.
- Exposure to monitoring and logging tools and observability pipeline integration – Datadog exposure preferred. Grafana, Prometheus,
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent degree in related field or relevant experience
What We Offer:
- A Great Place to work.
- Equal opportunity employer
- Fast track growth opportunities
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
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
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