Job Title Sr. Engineer, Network Automation

Business Segment Operations & Technology

Responsibilities The Engineer will be responsible for automation design and implementation across all platforms of Global Network Services, with the objective of proactively ensuring its reliability and availability for NBCU's global applications. Additionally, the Engineer will be responsible for projects, requesting fulfillment, documentation, troubleshooting, and metrics and reporting. Individual must be willing to perform other duties as assigned.

Essential Functions:

Potential candidates must possess a range of the following skills:

• Work with an automation framework such as Ansible or SaltStack
• Model configuration and operational data in a platform neutral structure
• Build reports to gain intelligence about the network and detect errors early
• Develop testing platforms to detect inconsistencies before changes are made
• Knowledge of enterprise, datacenter, DMZ and internet routing and switching design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• Familiar with copper and fiber cabling
• Experience implementing and troubleshooting in:

• Routing protocols: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and ISIS
• WAN connectivity especially MPLS
• LAN technologies: Spanning-tree, VTP, Port Channels, VPC, HSRP
• Multicast Routing, specifically PIM and IGMP
• NAT/PAT
• Cisco ISE
• Wireless/RF(experience w/ surveys and monitoring is a plus)
• Responsible for implementing complex projects (any st timeilds)
• Design and deploy necessary controls to insure the network meets service levels
• Experience in network deployments-survey/design/build/deploy/support/maintain
• Understanding of VPN - site to site, client, IPSEC (including the protocol suite), IKE, tunnel modes, SSL clientless/ Anyconnect, Tunnels between ASAs, Routers
• Strong knowledge of the Cisco ASR 9000 (IOS-XR) and Cisco 6500 products
• Familiar with common monitoring and alerting systems and comfortable with SNMP and net flow
• Responsible for tier 2/3 troubleshooting and escalations

Job Number 39157BR

Posting Category Technology/Engineering

Country United States

Sub-Business Technology

About Us At NBCUniversal, we believe in the talent of our people. It's our passion and commitment to excellence that drives NBCU's vast portfolio of brands to succeed. From broadcast and cable networks, news and sports platforms, to film, world-renowned theme parks and a diverse suite of digital properties, we take pride in all that we do and all that we represent. It's what makes us uniquely NBCU. Here you can create the extraordinary. Join us.

State/Province New Jersey

Career Level Experienced

Qualifications/Requirements mprehension of data types and their strengths and weaknesses

• Ability to generate structured data from text such as CLI response data
• Familiarity with templating engines
• Skill in anticipating potential errors and writing unit/integration tests against them
• Minimum 5 years' experience leading complex project builds with proven performance to achieve on-time completion of projects.
• Demonstrate successful design, planning and implementation of wide and local area network architecture, including troubleshooting and capacity planning.
• Expertise working on a team with motivated cross functional individuals focused on a common goal of delivering cutting edge solutions to meet aggressive business demands in an ever changing environment to achieve on time and on budget completion of projects.
• Industry certifications a plus
• Strong communication skills
• Solid documentation experience with Visio, Word, Excel
• Ambitious and goal oriented, with initiative to work tasks to completion.
• Willing to participate in periodic 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Willing to travel, work off-hours and on weekends as required.

Desired Characteristics rked with CI/CD tools

• Understanding of databases and ORMs
• Use web frameworks such as Flask or Django
• Ability to train others in using automation tools
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Relevant industry certifications a plus
• Experience in wireless communication design and configuration
• Experience in design and implementation of voice or video network infrastructures.
• Knowledge of Cisco Catalyst 3000/4000, Nexus, ASR and Cat 6500 are nice to have.
• Experience in design and implementation of Quality Of Service(QoS), able to customize across Cisco platforms to support Voice, Video, and other applications
• Experience with F5 load-balancing infrastructure
• Experience with Global Server Load balancing
• Experience with DMVPN implementation
• Experience in scripting, specifically: Unix shell, Python and/or PowerShell, ideally in a network automation context
• Experience acceptance testing of new hardware and software.
• Experience supporting broadcast, streaming and IoT devices
• Experience working in support of TV/News/Media industry a plus.

City Englewood Cliffs

Notices 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. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.