Senior Platform Engineer

At Entertainment Partners and Central Casting, we are committed to creating an

environment where every employee is seen, where ideas, thoughts and perspectives

are shared openly, and where fearless innovation is encouraged. Weaving

diversity, equity, and inclusion into who we are will drive our competitiveness

by encouraging creativity and enhanced decision making.

We help to power Oscar-winning films, Emmy-winning shows, and Clio-winning

commercials. Feel the satisfaction of doing work that directly impacts the most

exciting industry in the world. EP is poised to redefine and evolve the

back-office processes of the entertainment community with security at the core

of what we do.

Are you looking for the next opportunity to revolutionize an industry? If so....

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at EP are responsible for the capacity

planning, cost, change management, monitoring, alerting, emergency response,

availability, and performance of services. This includes advising on and often

constructing the platform components underlying the services. They work closely

with development and operations teams, building platforms and telemetry to

assure service quality. They work with business teams to advise on

cost/performance/reliability tradeoffs. SREs at the principal level are expected

to lead these efforts for multiple systems within a business unit, making

improvements in processes and helping guide partner and junior staff.

EP’s services are hosted on premises and within cloud-based services spanning

the globe.

These workloads are hosted on a mix of Linux and windows platforms. For this

role, the successful candidate will have a deep understanding of how distributed

systems operate at scale and across multiple geographies, and a deep knowledge

of windows. The role is to work on the windows-based workloads, but these share

tooling, common services, and practices with Linux workloads and must seamlessly

cooperate for our business users.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build platform automation for new platforms, deployment, and remediation

tasks

• Enhance observability: monitoring, alerting, and logging for workloads and

infrastructure

• Advise development teams building new services on platform and availability

issues, helping them use standard reliable platform patterns

• Implement appropriate SLIs, health checks

• Plan capacity for services

• Implement continuous integration (CI) and deployment pipelines using

standard tooling

• Participate in readiness reviews as new services are released to customers

• Implement platforms and platform improvements via Infrastructure as Code

(IAC)

• Actively participate in incident response

• Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis

• Lead blameless incident reviews to drive improvements

• Work with EP security staff to build secure services and service platforms

• Automate services and platform related tasks

JOB REQUIREMENTS / QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science or related

field

• 7+ years computer system implementation work experience

• 3+ years defining requirements, designing enterprise scale distributed

systems and services

• Extensive experience with windows operating systems, IIS (Internet

Information Services), networking systems, cloud systems

• Experience with Windows server automation, PowerShell

• Experience with Windows configuration management at scale

• Extensive experience troubleshooting and analyzing performance of

distributed systems

• Experience deploying and upgrading enterprise scale distributed systems

• Fluency in PowerShell, bash, operating system and cloud libraries

• Understanding of software development lifecycle steps and agile or similar

team organization roles

• Experience implementing CI/CD for multiple projects and teams

• Experience with containerizing workloads, Kubernetes, related tooling

• Experience with windows workloads in an AWS (Amazon Web Services)

environment

• Flexible approach to problem solving, open to new ideas

• Ability to collaborate with key business decision makers

• Ability to learn new technologies quickly

• Ability to refine requirement statements

• Conduct regular audits and implement necessary remediation measures.

• Document solutions and best practices for knowledge sharing purposes.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical

stakeholders

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

• Strategic thinking and business acumen

• Collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams

• Active Directory configuration and integration

• Integrating heterogeneous technology stacks

• Linux server automation, bash, python

• Ansible or similar automation tooling

• Experience in build and packaging for windows and dotnet based services

• Performance analysis and optimization of relational databases

• Windows containers

• Deploying windows workloads to Google Cloud Platform or Azure

Other benefits and perks included are:

• Health, Dental, and Vision options

• 401(k) retirement savings plan and company match

• Paid holidays, vacation time, and sick time

• Participation in company equity plans

• Employee Assistance Program, mental health and wellness programs

• Training and development

• Annual bonus and merit reviews

The salary range for this position in $133,000 to $135,000 and will be

commensurate with experience related to the position.

Entertainment Partners seeks to employ the most qualified individuals from the

available workforce and to provide equal employment opportunity for all persons.

Our policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion,

religious creed, sex, gender identity/expression, age, pregnancy, citizenship

status, marital status, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental

disability (whether perceived or actual), medical condition (cancer-related or

genetic characteristics-related), sexual orientation, veteran status,

medical/family care leave status or any other consideration made unlawful by

applicable federal, state, or local laws. Qualified applicants with arrest or

conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los

Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair

Chance Act.

Equal opportunity extends to all aspects of the employment relationship,

including recruiting, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, terminations,

working conditions, compensation, benefits, and other terms and conditions of

employment.