Comcast

OpenStack Platform Engineer (Eng4)

Comcast$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of relevant experience
  • Expertise in Engineering processes
  • Strong systems thinking abilities
  • Data-driven decision-making capabilities
  • Expert knowledge of OpenStack
  • Expert Linux skills
  • Proficiency with Python or GoLang (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Architecture to design new features for OpenStack
  • Research technologies to enhance the private cloud portfolio
  • Optimize cost, availability, and performance of OpenStack products
  • Validate new OpenStack releases through automated testing
  • Integrate security and compliance requirements into releases
  • Enhance deployment automation capabilities
  • Support SRE team with Level 3 escalations

Benefits

  • Comprehensive support benefits for physical, financial, and emotional well-being
  • Personalized options to address individual needs
  • Expert guidance and always-on tools available
  • Support during major life milestones
  • Resources for everyday life challenges
Full Job Description

Job Summary

The Comcast Cloud Team is seeking an OpenStack Platform Engineer to help design, test, optimize and deploy our multi-region private cloud environment.  We support thousands of hosts running tens of thousands of virtual machines, so automation skills are highly desired. Bring your expertise in Linux systems engineering, virtualization, networking and troubleshooting along with a desire to solve large scale engineering problems. Security first mentality is a must.

Job Description

The Global Cloud Technologies team provides the digital foundation for our application developers to reach millions of customers across the globe.  Within this group the Private Cloud Platform Engineering team builds products that enable on-premise applications to leverage a Cloud model while minimizing cost to the business and ensuring we meet our security and compliance goals. We work to optimize the availability, performance, capacityutilization and developer experience of our platforms.  We partner with our Architecture team on design, enable our SRE team to operate the platform, and collaborate with our Portal team to enable tenants to consume our services.

CoreDuties and Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Architecture on designing new features and capabilities for our OpenStack product
  • Research software,hardware,and other technologies in support of advancing our private cloud portfolio
  • Optimize the cost, availability, performance, and developer experience of our OpenStack product.
  • Validate new OpenStack releases through a combination of automated functional and performance testing.
  • Integrate evolving security and compliance requirements into new OpenStack product releases.
  • Continue to evolve and enhance our existing deployment automation capabilities.
  • Support SRE team forL3escalations

Required Qualifications:

  • Expertise in Engineering processes: deliver a product that meets requirements from a specification, test and validate the product, optimize configuration, and enable production deployment
  • Systems thinking: the ability to understand and address complex problems by understanding relationships within an interconnected system rather than just its individual parts
  • Data-driven decision making: the capability to define metrics for success and failure, to design systems and processes to test and gather relevant data needed to make a decision, and the willingness to let data guide decision making rather than relying on existing biases.
  • Expertise with OpenStack
  • Expert Linux knowledge

bPreferred Qualifications:

  • Proficiencywith PythonorGoLang, including ability to write basic scripts/software
  • Experience writing Ansible playbooks
  • Prior experience and knowledge of Git and peer-review workflow
  • Experience with CI/CD tools
  • Knowledge of testing tools and techniques
  • Experience with managingservers, data centers,networking,and security
  • Prior experience withCephstorage.
  • Experience with component integration using APIs and SDKs
  • Prior contributions to open-source software
  • Past software engineering projects you can show 6.g.GitHub portfolio
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • Willingness to learn by asking questions and showing initiative to learn
  • Ability to actively participatein team meetings, providingaccurateand complete status updates
  • Experience and enthusiasm for mentoring colleagues
  • AI and MML experience are a plus
  • 5-7 years relevant experience

Skills

Linux, OpenStack, Python (Programming Language), Red Hat Ansible, Virtualization

We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality 6to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.


Please visit the benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

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

7-10 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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