Platform Operations Engineer 4

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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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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

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