Job Summary:
MLB Network is the ultimate television destination for baseball fans, and they are seeking an Infrastructure DevOps Engineer to join their team. The role involves building robust CI/CD pipelines, creating automations, and ensuring the reliability and performance of MLBN’s systems.
Responsibilities:
• Administer and optimize Windows and Linux-based systems with a solid grasp of OS-level architectures and performance tuning.
• Administer and maintain virtualization platforms for back office and broadcast.
• Support and build databases for enterprise and broadcast.
• Manage and support backend storage systems.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using automation and configuration management tooling (ex: Terraform, Ansible, Packer, etc).
• Develop automation scripts and tools to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with internal IT and engineering teams to build systems, integrations, and business processes.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for infrastructure processes and systems.
• Design and maintain production-grade cloud systems
• Stay current with system information, changes and updates.
• Work with subject matter experts on networking and server projects to improve the end user experience.
• Maintain 24/7 business continuity by providing night, weekend, and on-call support as needed, with potential travel for major events.
• Other such duties as required.
Qualifications:
Required:
• A minimum of 2-3 years of experience with Windows and Linux administration, with a thorough understanding of writing scripts (Powershell, Bash, etc).
• Familiarity with Go, Python or other languages for automation, scripting, and tooling.
• Strong knowledge of Git, Terraform, Ansible, Packer, GitHub Actions, etc.
• Strong knowledge in virtualization platforms and hypervisors such as VMware, Azure Local, Hyper-V, etc.
• Experience administrating one of the major clouds (strong preference to GCP/Azure)
• Experience in building and supporting storage platforms (ex: Qumulo, PureStorage, etc)
• Experience in database systems (Azure SQL MI, MS SQL, Postgres, etc)
• Communicating with internal teams to understand requirements, and writing automations acceptable to them.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools.
• Strong fundamentals on enterprise systems such as Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, SQL, etc.
• Understanding of video/audio workflows inside a broadcast facility.
• Needs to be highly professional, courteous, organized, and demonstrate initiative and an ability to complete multiple assignments in a timely manner.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time.
• Possess the manual dexterity needed to effectively create required work product.
• Possess the visual acuity needed to effectively create required work product.
• Possess the auditory acuity needed to effectively create required work product.
• Must possess excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Prompt and regular attendance at an assigned work location.
Preferred:
• Experience in building cloud based broadcast systems and workflows a plus.
• Experience with HRIS systems a plus (ex: UKG, Workday)
• Bachelor’s degree in IT / Technical Communications, Broadcast IT or equivalent related experience is preferred.
Company:
MLB Network is the ultimate television destination for baseball fans, featuring the multiple Emmy Award-winning "MLB Tonight," live regular-season games and Spanish-language Postseason game telecasts, original programming, highlights, and insights and analysis from the best in the business. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey, US, , with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.