Sr DevOps Engineer

About the job

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from ViacomCBS, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world’s biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the U.S. in addition to the ability to stream ViacomCBS Streaming’s other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

Division Overview

Paramount + is the premier online content network for information and entertainment. With more than 250 million people visiting its properties each month, it is a top 10 Web property globally and a top 5 Web property in the U.S. in terms of unique video viewers. Brands you will work on include HD movies, CBS shows, classic TV episodes, and original programming.

Role Details

We are looking for a technical release engineer who is an expert at running continuous application software deployments across mobile, OTT, and web platforms. We’re a busy agile world of 20 scrum teams across at least 10 platforms. You are responsible for creating and maintaining the build pipeline infrastructure, governing the release process, and handling the deployments to multiple internal and external environments. You are a strong communicator who plans, coordinates, schedules, and communicates upcoming releases across projects and teams. You work alongside engineering leads and project managers to guide software deployments into a predictable release cadence. You know what it takes to handle continuous, incremental, worldwide, consumer-facing software releases with resilience, incorporating agile methodologies into your daily work approach. You have the ability to coordinate with multiple teams to achieve release breakthroughs, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery, while meeting the level of quality for which our teams are known.

Your Day-to-Day

• Handle the internal and production application release pipelines across mobile (Android & iOS), OTT (native and HTML-based), Web platforms Architect, construct, and maintain multiple CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous deployment) infrastructure pipelines
• Responsible for daily development operations of software integration and deployments Identify and analyze risk factors and actively implement mitigation strategies to improve release reliability and stability
• Configure and incorporate automated dependency management and archive systems
• Provide build environments which execute automated unit, UI, and performance tests on both the server and on-devices
• Use Git code repositories while advocating GitFlow branching methodology
• Write operational runbooks and documentation to support the release and engineering teams
• Communicate technical release requirements and changes to the organization leads
• Help define go/no-go release readiness criteria with engineering, product, and project management teams
• Measure, monitor, and generate reports on key-metrics on a weekly and ad-hoc basis
• Daily interactions with Release Project Manager as well as the Engineering and Quality teams
• Provide after-hours support as necessary
• Additional other duties as assigned

Key Projects

• Be a technical thought-leader, while constantly improving and fostering a positive work culture
• Research new technologies and release management strategies for building internal applications tooling and process improvements
• Automate response and monitoring systems to help mitigate risks and provide data for decisions
• Maintain balanced relationships and communications with engineering, quality, product, design, marketing, and customer service leads

Qualifications

What you bring to the team:

You have –

• B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical field (or related experience)
• 5+ years of work experience in software engineering and/or release engineering
• 3+ years of experience programming or scripting
• Experience with microservices architectures and deploying/managing containers (Kubernetes, Docker, and/or CloudFormation)
• Proficient in macOS/Linux and cloud providers such as GCP or AWS
• OOP programming expertise in one or more of the following: C++, Python, Bash, Java, Groovy, and/or Ruby
• Continuous Integration & Delivery: Expert in either Jenkins or XCode Server
• Automated and continuous build tools: Gradle, Maven and/or Ant
• Configuration Management tools: Fastlane, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Salt Database: Postgres and/or Redis
• Detailed understanding of device provisioning and automated code signing
• Hands-on networking experience and macOS operation and maintenance
• A proactive, efficient, and resourceful approach with ability to thrive in a creative and fast paced environment
• Strong communication and listening skills
• Willing to travel occasionally between San Francisco and Los Angeles

You might also have –

• Application programming experience in Kotlin, Java, Swift, Objective-C, or Javascript
• Experience with AppCenter (HockeyApp), TestFlight, or another application distribution tool
• Knowledge of AppStore Connect and Google Dev Console

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.

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