Comcast

Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Data- FreeWheel

Comcast$130K — $160K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Data Operations Engineer
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Familiarity with data technologies like Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, and Cassandra
  • Extensive database management experience in NoSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
  • Proficiency in automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes
  • Programming skills in languages such as Python, Go, Java, or Scala
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging abilities

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement monitoring and alerting systems for data platforms
  • Respond to and resolve issues impacting data pipelines
  • Develop automation tools for deployment, monitoring, and disaster recovery
  • Analyze and optimize the performance of data storage and query execution
  • Coordinate incident responses and resolve data platform failures
  • Collaborate with data engineering teams for capacity planning and scaling
  • Document architecture and operational procedures for data platforms

Benefits

  • Comprehensive support for physical, financial, and emotional well-being
  • Personalized options and expert guidance for important life events
  • Resources available for everyday needs
  • Focus on employee well-being during major milestones
Full Job Description
Job Summary
FreeWheel is seeking an experienced Data SRE to join the FreeWheel Data SRE team. As a member of the Global Operation team, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data systems. Working closely with data engineers and other operation sub-teams, you will manage our data infrastructure, optimize system reliability, automate daily operations, and resolve technical issues that impact our data pipelines and backend data platforms.

Job Description
Key Responsibilities:

System Monitoring and Optimization
  • Design and implement monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the stability, reliability, and performance of data platforms.
  • Quickly respond to and resolve issues impacting data pipelines or storage layers.

Automation and Tool Development
  • Develop and maintain automation tools and scripts for deployment, monitoring, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery of data systems.

Performance Optimization
  • Analyze and optimize the performance of data storage, query performance, and data flows.
  • Ensure efficient processing of large-scale datasets.
  • Reduce latency and improve processing speed.

Incident Response and Troubleshooting
  • Respond quickly to data platform failures.
  • Perform troubleshooting and coordinate cross-team efforts to resolve issues.
  • Ensure high availability and reliability of data platforms.

Capacity Planning and Scaling
  • Work with data engineering teams to analyze and forecast capacity requirements.
  • Ensure systems can accommodate data growth and scale infrastructure accordingly.

Documentation and Knowledge Sharing
  • Document the architecture, configurations, and operational procedures for data platforms.
  • Share operational knowledge across the team and provide relevant training.

Security and Compliance
  • Ensure data platforms meet security standards and compliance requirements.
  • Prevent data breaches, unauthorized access, and misuse of data.

Cross-Team Collaboration
  • Collaborate with data science, product, and development teams.
  • Support data product design and implementation efforts.
  • Resolve reliability-related issues and improve platform stability.


Qualifications
  • At least 10+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Data Operations Engineer.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Familiarity with modern data architectures and technologies including Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, HDFS, and AWS S3.
  • Extensive experience in database management including NoSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
  • Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
  • Programming skills in Python, Go, Java, or Scala.
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar tools.
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
  • Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.


Additional Preferred Skills
  • Experience with Aerospike, Kafka, Snowflake, and other big data technologies.
  • Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience designing and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience in data quality management, data governance, or ETL pipelines.


Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Python (Programming Language)

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Education
Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience
10 Years +

About Comcast

FreeWheel manages the economics of content for the enterprise class of entertainment, offering technical infrastructure for revenue rights management and business operations, wrapped in advisory services. They offer advertising sales rights, display, video, mobile ad management, contract management, professional content, ad serving, reporting, analytics, technology, services, advisory services, business operations, programmatic advertising, advertising marketplace, and linear, and online advertising.

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Net Income
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Founded
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