Senior Software Engineer – DevOps

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 and 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. 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. Roles & Responsibilities: •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 and Shell Scripting. 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. Experience •5+ 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. •3+ years building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in tools such as GitHub Actions. •Experience maintaining AWS RDS. Exposure to Mongo Atlas Architecture is a plus. •Proven expert experience with Terraform. Good to have knowledge on Ansible and CloudFormation. •Exposure to maintaining OpenSearch clusters. •Exposure to monitoring and logging tools and observability pipeline integration—AWS CloudWatch and Datadog exposure preferred. Grafana and Prometheus is also good to have. •Ability to design a cross-account platform with required security guardrails and architecture. Education •Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent degree in related field or relevant experience