Senior DevOps Engineer

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Senior DevOps Engineer - Hyderabad, India.
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.

Roles & Responsibilities:
WBD DTC’s Content Discovery Experience Services team is seeking an experienced and talented Senior DevOps Engineer. As a Senior DevOps Engineer within our Experience Service Tools team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and crafting reusable and globally scalable development, testing, and support processes to maintain high-quality infrastructure as code, ensuring optimal performance, resilience, and scalability to enable our internal users to create, build, and curate dynamic DTC content experiences and to efficiently power our DTC streaming apps.

Your primary focus will be on the editorial and experience tools management of our DTC streaming apps including editorial tools and services that power the video and content experiences for millions of users globally. You will collaborate closely with a highly skilled group of back-end and front-end engineers to support the building and development of the WBD global experience tools and platform and enhance feature support across various products and expansions.

The ideal candidate has a track record of developing, testing, and maintaining high-quality infrastructure and testing methodologies for multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You have the ability to think like a product lead who builds tools and distributed services that cater to the needs of our internal partners (editorial and merchandising, personalization, search, and content discovery feature teams) with an eye for automation, efficiency, and scale. You have a deep empathy for both internal stakeholders and external customers which rely on and extensively use the tools and services you build and support. You provide mentoring to other engineers.

• Able to conduct system analysis, understand the architecture and the capabilities of the given toolset and technology stack, then proactively improve on it.
• Able to proactively do research and implementation to support development teams and their own individual needs on different tech stacks.
• Familiar with different testing methodologies and tools and able to support both the development and QA teams to automate and improve their testing capabilities.
• Develop, test, and maintain high-quality infrastructure as code, ensuring optimal performance, resilience, and scalability.
• Conduct and lead code reviews, providing mentorship and fostering a positive culture of continuous improvement.
• Be up to date on emerging technologies and industry trends, guiding the integration of relevant advancements into the development process.
• Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on engineers around you.
• You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace, etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it. You can identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes and system design.
• You prioritize scalability, extensibility, reliability, and high performance in the development of the infrastructure and testing processes of our services and tools.
• You collaborate across multiple backend and frontend teams to ensure cohesive and efficient system development and architecture design.
• You contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and engineering excellence.

What to Bring:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Similar discipline.
• 5 to 7+ years of experience as a Software and DevOps engineering for full-stack teams using Java and JavaScript with proficiency in Java development frameworks, including but not limited to Vert.x and Spring Boot and contemporary JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular). Experience with NodeJS, Python are a plus.
• Familiar with the languages of our tools and basic configuration possibilities, build and compilation steps, such as container images, Nodejs, npm packages, Java and pypi.
• Familiar with industry standards regarding releases, rollbacks, and deployments
• Able to build AWS infrastructure from code that is compliant with security, reliability and scalability.
• Has experience with the most common AWS services and cloud native, serverless architectures, such as:
• Serverless, Step Functions, Lambdas, EventBridge
• RDS, Postgres, DynamoDb, S3
• SecretManager
• Has great experience and advanced knowledge regarding Git and Github usage, APIs and scripting, especially the usage of Github Actions to build CICD pipelines.
• Has practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC): advanced level of Terraform and Terragrunt, and additional CloudFormation.
• Can work comfortably with the NodeJs, Typescript and the usual tooling such as esbuild, webpack, npm
• Has experience with code analyzers, such as SonarCloud
• Has advanced knowledge of monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus
• Ability to work with minimal instructions on day-to-day work, able to consume and self- start with general instructions on new assignments. Participates in an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.

What We Offer:
• A Great Place to work.
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/  along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.