Sr FinOps Engineer (AWS/ Cloud Governance) - job 1 of 2

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

The Engineering Experience team at NBCU is defining and building a paved road of tools and systems to accelerate and optimize our software development teams and practices. As a member of our Cloud Enablement & Acceleration FinOps team, you will design, implement, and manage robust data pipelines to develop dashboards that deliver actionable insights into our infrastructure costs and utilization patterns. You will collaborate within our team, and with other stakeholders, integrating essential business metrics with detailed cost data to drive financial accountability and technological advancement. If you have a passion for working with Product Owners and Engineering teams to build high-quality, production-grade data pipelines, ELT processes, and dashboards that will inform strategic and operational decisions, we'd love to hear from you.

As part of the larger Engineering Experience team, you will be a part of building world class systems to improve development workflows and productivity and help us create world class tools and experiences.

Our organization values collaboration and continuous improvement, and we strive to provide an environment where all ideas are valued. We believe that healthy organizations have a culture of accountability, transparency, and safety. This means that we commit to delivering things together, communicate constantly on status and risks, and that when we fail (and we should strive to fail) that we own up to it and use it as a learning experience with no blame or judgement involved.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, experience, and training in Computer Science, Data Science or a related field
• 5+ years' experience as part of a team building reporting, business intelligence, and analytics solutions
• Applied experience with Public Cloud Governance and FinOps best practices 
• Applied experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, Tableau, Looker, or QuickSight
• Applied experience analyzing cost and usage patterns of various systems that span across multiple clouds and data centers
• Ability to understand the cost breakdown of infrastructure, cloud services, and other resources used by the applications
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems
• Practical knowledge and experience building and optimizing data pipelines leveraging new technologies, i.e. Python, AWS S3, Lambda
• Excellent communicator and relationship builder to both business and technical teams
• Passion for FinOps culture, automation, and modern tooling
• A strong passion for learning and improvement
• Strive for excellence and appreciation of detail

Desired Characteristics: 

• Strong proficiency of Cloud Governance and FinOps best practices
• Experience with cloud cost management tooling, i.e. Cloudability, CloudHealth
• Basic familiarity with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cloud platforms; ability to navigate and understand fundamental tools and concepts within these environments
• Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests required. Continuous delivery experience preferred.
• Experience delivering software using an agile development process
• Ability to work and participate in a team with an open and collaborative style of communications
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as part of a cross-functional team
• Ability to jump into a project and contribute immediately to both architecture and implementation

Additional Requirements:

• Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $110,000 - $140,000 

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