About this role
Job title: Network Architect / Reliability Engineer
About the Role You will operate across NHL's Architecture and Engineering initiatives, driving end-to-end network design and reliability for live games, global media workflows, and production windows. You’ll treat the network as a product, incorporate feedback from operations partners, and deliver broadcast-grade, low-latency, deterministic connectivity across cloud, on-prem, broadcast venues, studios, and edge environments. This is a hybrid role spanning AWS, on-prem data centers, and field locations, with security and policy-as-code embedded in every layer.
What You'll Do
- Surface architectural gaps from operational patterns; propose design changes backed by data
- Build Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines for network and security policy
- Build self-service network capabilities consumed via IaC by other platform teams
- Treat your domain as a product, gather stakeholder feedback, shape the roadmap, measure outcomes
- Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, and stakeholder-facing SLAs for your domain
- Drive reliability for your domain, design for failure, partner with Network Reliability Engineers, and contribute as incidents, design changes, or events demand
- Own observability for your domain
- Apply AI/ML to network operations, anomaly detection, predictive capacity, intelligent remediation
What We're Looking For
- Strong networking fundamentals across Layer 1–4, physical, switching, routing, and transport
- Network security platforms, comfort designing segmentation and policy-as-code
- Hands-on Terraform (writing modules, not just consuming them)
- AWS networking at scale
- On-prem networking at scale, DC fabrics, broadcast venue and studio connectivity, hybrid integration
- Strong scripting skills
- Cross-functional partnership with Media Engineering, Production, Security, and Operations — translating creative and business needs into network capabilities
- Comfort operating in deadline-driven, broadcast-grade reliability environments
Nice to Have
- Live broadcast, sports, post-production, or VFX infrastructure experience
- Broadcast-grade networking, low-latency, deterministic, contribution/distribution
- AI/ML applied to network operations
- Reliability engineering background, SLO design, chaos engineering, or failure-mode analysis at scale
- NetDevOps tooling breadth, alongside Terraform
- SASE / zero trust deployment at scale
- Product thinking applied to infrastructure, treating platforms as services with customers
Compensation & Benefits
- Time to Recharge: Generous Paid Time Off including holidays, vacation, personal and sick days, plus an extra day off for your birthday
- Health benefits: comprehensive coverage for employees and eligible dependents from day one with substantial employer contribution
- Employee Assistance Program and digital wellness resources
- Childcare Leave: primary caregiver up to 12 weeks paid; non-primary caregiver up to 6 weeks paid within the first 6 months
- Retirement: NHL Savings Plan including a 401K plus employer contributions
- Hybrid work schedule to support work/life balance
Industry: Entertainment