Warner Bros. Discovery - Lead Google Cloud Platform Site Reliability Engineer

Description :

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

Who We Are :

When we say, the stuff dreams are made of, were not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth.

Behind WBDs 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 whats 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.

Your New Role :

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Global Infrastructure Cloud Technologies (GICT) team to ensure the reliability, availability, scalability, and security of our cloud infrastructure and services.

The ideal candidate will bring expertise in GCP, automation, monitoring, and incident management to drive operational excellence.

The role serves as a technical leader across our Hyderabad Cloud Team, supporting hundreds of applications, websites and services in the fleet of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) cloud accounts.

The selected individual will help craft management and governance strategies, and work to unify processes with other cloud providers.

As a team player, the GCP Lead SRE will collaborate with other SRE Leads, the rest of the cloud engineering team, software developers and management to build and manage highly resilient and performant infrastructure.

This individual will have a strong background in Linux and Windows Systems Engineering.

Proficiency in Terraform and related Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is required.

Experience with the software development lifecycle, be fluent in distributed computing techniques and technologies, and demonstrated experience managing enterprise scale infrastructure and tooling.

Direct, hands-on experience writing software is ideal.

This position reports to the Sr. Manager of Cloud Engineering.

Your Role Accountabilities :

Key Responsibilities :

• Primarily accountable for managing GCP environments.
• Identify, optimize and eliminate performance bottlenecks and proactively remediating security concerns through monitoring, profiling, and tuning.
• Establish and improve SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to drive system reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including application developers, to improve application observability and optimize performance.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers working to reduce toil across the total team load, and to implement security features, roles, user access and privileges according to best practices.
• Proactively identify, design, and implement process and architectural improvements.
• Stay informed on the latest features and best practices across the GCP Public Cloud and the WBD GCP environment.
• Work with peer group of complementary public cloud leads (Azure / AWS) to facilitate consistency across WBD management of resources wherever possible.

Methodology :

Continuous Improvement :

Soft Skills :

Not Required but preferred experience :

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 a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.

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 youre a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and / or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

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