Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

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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, capacity utilization 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.

Core Duties 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 for L3 escalations

Required

Qualifications

• Advanced Linux knowledge and hands on experience
• 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
• Experience with OpenStack deployments
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Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with Python or GoLang, 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 managing servers, data centers, networking, and security
• Prior experience with Ceph storage.
• Experience with component integration using APIs and SDKs
• Prior contributions to open-source software
• Past software engineering projects you can show – e.g. GitHub portfolio
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Willingness to learn by asking questions and showing initiative to learn
• Ability to actively participate in team meetings, providing accurate and complete status updates
• Experience and enthusiasm for mentoring colleagues
• AI and MML experience are a plus
• Skills
• Linux, OpenStack, Python (Programming Language), Red Hat Ansible, Virtualization

Compensation

This job can be performed in Virginia, and Denver Campus with a Pay Range of $113,886.55 - $187,099.34

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees.

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 – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and 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

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.