Warner Bros. Discovery
Direct to Consumer (DTC)
StaffSoftwareEngineer
“Staff Software Engineer at Warner Bros. Discovery. Skills: Kubernetes, AWS, Python, Golang. Define overall architecture. Drive implementations”
What You'll Achieve.
Reduce toil; Keep runtime cost low; Enable faster time to new markets; Onboard new tenants; Reduce security incidents; Ensure cost-effectiveness; Support business needs; Define and measure KPIs; Honor SLAs
Industry & Context.
Identify automation opportunities; Cost optimization; Performance tuning; Troubleshoot problems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8 years of software development, infrastructure management or operations experience, 5 years of Kubernetes and AWS experience, Ability to write quality code for automation in python, bash or golang, Experience with designing infrastructure CI/CD pipelines, Experience with IaC, preferably Terraform, Used to Helm templating for k8s manifests, Understanding of how GitOps tooling like ArgoCD or Flux works, Experience in rolling out infrastructure changes to production by following a change management workflow, Knowing what metrics to monitor during a change rollout to identify problems, ownership mentality during rollouts, stop/rollback and fix if problems occur or escalate to management/on-call if getting stuck, sense of security, always using least privileges access and firewall configurations when needed for maintenance, Understanding of how running workloads on the Kubernetes clusters may be affected by cluster changes or node rotations, Willingness to talk to service development teams and understand their challenges when they report problems during maintenance windows, Ability to define and measure KPIs and honor SLAs for infrastructure maintenance, Experience with Git and GitHub PR workflows, Experience in working with Agile – Sprints, Epics/Stories, Jira, Experience with building internal developer platforms using technologies such as backstage/argo-workflows
Nice to Have
Ability to mentor senior engineers, Experience with leading large technical projects with unclear requirements, Ability to drive decision making and cross-team collaboration
What You'll Do.
Define overall architecture
Drive implementations
Improve internal developer platform
Operate Kubernetes clusters
Perform version upgrades
Perform security patching
Identify automation opportunities
Lead cost optimization efforts
Tweak Karpenter scaling
Increase bin-packing efficiency
Identify over scaled infrastructure
Define automation processes
Bootstrap platform capabilities
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Team up with other platform teams; Work closely with SRE; Talk to service development teams; Cross-team collaboration
Process & Methodology
Leading large technical projects, Agile, Sprints, Epics/Stories
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