Infrastructure Analyst - Fixed-term contract

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the bringing our characters to life, the bringing them to your living rooms and the creating what’s 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.

The role

Reporting to a Duty Operations Manager, this position is critical in monitoring and supporting WBD’s Global Network and Infrastructure platforms. Ensuring tickets and issues are escalated accordingly and the Major Incident outage process is followed to ensure speedy communication to our internal teams / executives and customer services teams.

Highlights of the roles

The position is part of a unified technical operations team that will consist of members from multiple disciplines (Network Operations, Server / Storage Operations, Digital Platform Support Operations) to form a team capable of providing monitoring and support to all WBD technical infrastructure and where relevant you will escalate to Tier 2 / Tier 3 engineers across the globe. This exciting new role has the scope for you to learn and progress into more technical roles within the ET&O teams.

Working as part of a team of Tier 1 and Tier 2 operators in our Krakow operations center, the role is responsible for monitoring and providing 1st line (Tier 1) support of WBD’s network, infrastructure and digital services across 50 offices and production centers globally.

This function supports the business 24 x 7 x 365. Post holders will be expected to work shifts including weekends and night shifts.

Responsibilities

Monitoring all our production network and platforms real time using systems such as Pager Duty, SolarWinds, Service Now, etc.

Outage vetting and escalating to our Tier 2 / Tier 3 engineers and 3rd party vendors

Where possible resolving issues at the frontline or escalating to the Tier 2 / 3 engineers and 3rd party providers

Writing of outage notifications and raising, and managing tickets in ServiceNow, following Discovery’s Incident Management process. Checking whether changes have impacted the service and advising others accordingly. Ensuring that requests are handled in a timely manner

Maintain Knowledge Base(s) and writing of processes where necessary to help and aid others in the future

Ensure detailed shift handover among colleagues

Provide support to the Duty Operations Manager in the management of high priority outages as needed, providing stakeholder communications at agreed intervals until resolution of the issue with root cause determined

Coordinate with vendors and 3rd party suppliers on relevant issue reporting / resolution, post-incident reports, onboardings, service reviews, and system migrations / deployments

Qualifications

1+ years providing administrative, troubleshooting, and technical support in a technology department

Flexibility to work early morning, evening, weekend, and overnight shifts

Experience working with Active Directory

Experience using ServiceNow, PagerDuty, or another similar Service Management tool

Basic networking knowledge is a plus

Working knowledge of ServiceNow MS Word, Excel, or similar computer software systems

Works well under pressure

Excellent interpersonal skills

Able to work independently & collaborate with a team to meet business objectives

Able to communicate technical matters to technical and non-technical audiences

Must be able to independently research, troubleshoot, and resolve trouble tickets within established Service Level Agreements

Excellent English written and verbal communication skills

We offer

Contract of employment

Free access to Max

Benefit package : private medical health care, life insurance, MyBenefit cafeteria including sport card, social funds, retirement pension plans, recognition platform, employee referral program

Work-life balance initiatives : wellbeing platform, yoga, educational webinars, Employee Assistance Program, internal media initiatives

Training & development : sharing the cost of English lessons, Employee Resource Groups, Bridge learning platform, sharing sessions with experts

CSR activities : volunteering, eco & social initiatives

Casual dress code

Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

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 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 the diversity of our society and the world around us. 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.