Senior Platform Engineer

Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You’ll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

Job Summary

ABOUT CTS CYBERSECURITY

You will be an innovator in the Cybersecurity division of Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS). (https://www.comcasttechnologysolutions.com/about-us) This division specializes in offering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and subscription-based security solutions to large enterprises and the federal government. For the first time ever, customers are now able to purchase some of the best of Comcast’s own in-house security technologies (https://www.comcasttechnologysolutions.com/cybersecurity-suite).

These solutions are proven-at-scale to defend critical infrastructure and effectively reduce cost. The Cybersecurity Suite efficiently improves security and compliance while keeping costs in check.

You are ambitious. You like driving new relationships. You have developed skills in evangelizing new technologies and researching the latest in cybersecurity. You achieve happiness in seeing customers solve hard security problems. You enjoy the challenge and thrill of succeeding in bringing new technology approaches to market.

Job Description

Join our dynamic Platform Engineering Team, where we harness cutting-edge technologies like AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, SonarQube, & CI/CD automation to drive innovation and efficiency in our infrastructure. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll lead the change in architecting and implementing scalable solutions, setting us apart in the market with your expertise in cloud-native technologies and automation. With exciting initiatives like optimizing deployment pipelines, streamlining robust developer environments, enhancing infrastructure as code practices, and spearheading Kubernetes orchestration, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our platform, empowering our teams to deliver value to our customers faster and more reliably than ever before.

You will be an innovator in the Cybersecurity division of Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS). This division specializes in offering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and subscription-based security solutions to large enterprises and the federal government. For the first time ever, customers are now able to purchase some of the best of Comcast’s own in-house security technologies. These solutions are proven-at-scale to defend critical infrastructure and effectively reduce cost. The Cybersecurity Suite efficiently improves security and compliance while keeping costs in check. DataBee, the growth engine of the division, stands out as a groundbreaking security and compliance data fabric platform. Join us and be at the forefront of revolutionizing our infrastructure landscape!

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage advanced CI/CD pipelines leveraging tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI, with a focus on automating code validation, testing, and deployment processes across multiple environments.

• Develop and maintain a self-service, robust developer platform, utilizing containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, enabling developers to deploy and scale their applications autonomously.

• Implement secure deployment practices, including infrastructure hardening, vulnerability management, compliance checks, secrets management, network security controls, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.

• Design and implement comprehensive monitoring and observability solutions, utilizing tools like DataDog, Grafana, Fluentd, or ELK stack to proactively identify and address performance issues and bottlenecks along with collect, analyze, and visualize metrics & logs, and optimize resource utilization.

• Utilize infrastructure-as-code principles, and tools like Terraform to define and provision infrastructure resources in AWS cloud environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters using infrastructure-as-code methodologies, configuring advanced features like network policies, pod security policies, pod autoscaling, rolling updates, and custom resource definitions to optimize containerized application deployments, performance, and availability.

• Mentor and coach junior engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and hands-on training in areas such as automation, infrastructure design, and cloud-native technologies, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration, including deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting, along with expertise in containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration concepts.

• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform for provisioning and managing AWS resources.

• Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.

• Solid understanding of secure deployment practices, including code signing, secrets management, least privilege access controls, infrastructure hardening, and encryption techniques.

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar.

• Experience with scripting and programming languages, such as Python, Bash, JavaScript, & GoLang.

• Hands-on experience with AWS services, including EC2, EKS, ECR, S3, IAM, Lambda, RDS, and VPC networking.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively mentor and collaborate with junior engineers.

Nice to Have:

• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or similar are a plus.

What You Can Expect:

• Get a startup experience at a large established company.

• An encouraging and casual work environment with chances to showcase your skills.

• A culture of innovation and continuous learning.

• Training, support, and mentoring to expand and evolve your expertise.

• For more insight into our culture, check out: https://jobs.comcast.com/meet-comcast/our-culture

About Our Perks & Benefits:
We are determined to create an environment where our employees feel valued, understand our business goals, and are motivated.
Here's a look at just some of the perks and benefits we make available to our US-based employees:

• Medical & Dental

• 401(k) Savings Plan

• Generous paid time off

• Life Milestones - from adoption assistance, childcare resources, pet insurance, and more, Comcast supports you at all life stages.

• Courtesy Services - We offer all of our full-time employees in serviceable areas discounted digital TV and internet.

• Discounted tickets for Universal Resorts, and free tickets to our Universal theme parks!
  Learn more at https://jobs.comcast.com/life-at-comcast/benefits

Reasonable Accommodation
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTemployer.

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.

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Compensation

National Pay Range: $96,706.14 USD-$226,655.01 USD

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. 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.  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.

The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

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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