Platform Operations Engineer 4

Comcast

7 - 10 years

Chennai

Posted: 12/1/2024

Job Description

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Job Summary

Are you looking to have an impact on a large technology organization and the work of thousands of developers? If you are driven and passionate about reducing cognitive load and toil for developers, then Developer Experience (DevX) Organization is the place for you!

Comcast’s DevX organization creates an extensible ecosystem of solutions, evolving based on deep partnerships, that empower Comcast’s Engineering community to do more of what they love and feel deeply connected to their impactful work.

DevX believes we can make developers happier, more focused, and more innovative. We do this by providing tools and automated processes that reduce the impact non-functional requirements have on our developer’s lives.

As an Engineer 4 on our DevX Platforms Cloud Native Application Platforms (CNAP) team, you will be enabling Comcast developers in faster delivery of reliable, performant, and scalable software products. You will be a [technical leader/key contributor] on the team, having input on technical design decisions and serving as a liaison to our stakeholders, primarily other development teams. On our teams, everyone has an opportunity to lead; your communication and collaboration skills are just as important—if not more important—than your technical skills.

Job Description

As an Engineer 4 on the DevX Platforms Cloud Native Application Platform (CNAP) Operations team, you will join a team of platform engineers in the daily operation of the team’s Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes-based platforms. Responsibilities include building and operating modern, multi-cloud application platforms using technologies such as Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and Concourse CI/CD. Our team enriches these platforms by layering on easy-to-consume services such as load balancing, persistent storage, metrics and telemetry, messaging, CI/CD, and data services. We remove infrastructure bottlenecks, such as submitting request tickets, by automating everything. You will partner with the CNAP Engineering and Product Delivery teams on roadmap items and work with cross-functional teams such as Developers, Cloud, and Cybersecurity to ensure business outcomes are met.

Responsibilities

Actively participate on a DevOps Platform team to run and maintain Comcast’s Cloud Native Application Platforms (CNAP) built on open source Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes.
Develop and enhance the platforms using open source technology through automation, employing open source software and interacting with APIs.
Harvest and visualize metrics; monitor health, performance, and capacity of our platforms and services and perform appropriate capacity planning.
Provide excellent customer service to existing customers and act as a product evangelist for prospective customers.
Partner with the CNAP Engineering and Product Delivery teams to operate product roadmap items that bring new features, reliability, and stability to our platforms.
Work with the Development and Applications teams in TPX to ensure their code is running effectively, efficiently, and securely on our platforms.
Work with cross-functional teams such as the Cloud and Cybersecurity teams to ensure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) capacity is properly managed and the platform is operating in a secure fashion.
Mentor junior members of the team.
Participate in regular scrum/iteration planning and backlog grooming sessions.
Regular, consistent, and punctual attendance. Must be able to work variable schedule as necessary.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

What you will bring

Expert level Linux experience
Platform operations experience in private and public cloud IaaS (vSphere, AWS), PaaS (Cloud Foundry), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker).
Experience influencing application modernization and migration to cloud platforms.
Experience in using open source software to solve for business outcomes
Understanding of cloud-native, 12-factor application design principles and refactoring applications to be container friendly.
Experience with DevOps tooling such as Terraform, BOSH, Concourse CI/CD
Experience in Software development using Java, Python, GoLang
Enthusiastic self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset, proven history of execution and delivery, and well-developed business acumen
Experience with agile methodologies using Jira, or a similar platform for scaling agile development practices
Effective working independently and in a team environment, both onsite and virtual
Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to adjust the messaging to the audience
Any relevant experience, including multiple years in a senior level technical position

Skills

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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)

Relative Work Experience

7-10 Years

Comcast is proud to be 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.

About Company

Comcast is a telecommunications company offering cable TV, broadband, and phone services. It also owns NBCUniversal and produces content for television, movies, and streaming. Comcast is investing in next-gen technologies like 5G and broadband expansion to improve service accessibility.

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