Director, Nextgen Network Perimeter

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.  

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Job Description

NBCUniversal’s Operations and Technology group is looking for a Director of NextGen Network Perimeter and Trust.  The candidate will lead a highly technical team of network, firewall, and cloud engineers with ownership of NBC’s global security infrastructure.  The successful candidate will have extensive experience deploying and maintaining critical, high-availability network security infrastructure with the technical knowledge to dig into the details. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead technical deep dives, “hold your own” with business leaders, influence high impacting and complex decisions.
• Serve as a role model for “how to execute”, lead major problem reviews, champion process improvement, and actively contribute to high-risk change review and implementation.
• Provide advanced technical analysis of cyber requirements, collaborate, and ensure the appropriate implementation is deployed. 

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting large complex networks with extensive NextGen firewall deployment and support expertise.
• Solid understanding of the current perimeter security ecosystem and how “zero trust” concepts can be leveraged to support hybrid cloud and refactoring of the edge.
• Experience with Palo Alto, Cisco, Akamai, and Cloudflare solutions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong hands-on understanding of IPv4/6, routing protocols (OSPF, MP-BGP, MPLS), video standards and codecs including RTP, SRT, HLS, JPEG-XS, 2022-7, ST2110.
• Ability to review network designs, configurations, and real-time traffic patterns to assess network capacity, detect suboptimal network state, and identify potential points of failure.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.

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: $155,000 - $190,000 (bonus eligible)

Additional Information

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