Site Reliability Engineer 2 - Freewheel

Location: Reston, Virginia, US, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Employment Type: Full Time

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

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. This position falls under Comcast Advertising’s FreeWheel organization. FreeWheel’s TV and video advertising technology is built for today’s ever-evolving multiscreen ecosystem. Whether you’re a buyer or a seller, we offer all the tools, data, and insights you need to drive results. FreeWheel’s platform makes TV and video advertising work.

Job Description

We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, system reliability, and observability for the Freewheel BuyerCloud and Revenue Science teams. 

Freewheel BuyerCloud (formerly Beeswax) is a massive-scale, highly available, user-friendly programmatic demand-side bidding platform. Revenue Science builds the company's machine learning and AI solutions. Together, these teams run thousands of applications, servers, and containers across multiple regions worldwide — built on AWS and Kubernetes and managed entirely through Infrastructure-as-Code. 

 

Core Responsibilities 

• Design and build infrastructure and tooling to provide high scalability, reliability, and sub-second performance levels using industry best practices. 

• Writing code and scripts to support Infrastructure as code (IaC), configuration management, and automated incident resolution.

• Support and extend the observability stack to capture and alert on any system issues. 

• Participate in on-call rotations and be an escalation contact for service incidents. 

• Writing systems documentation, troubleshooting playbooks, and other instruction manuals. 

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned. 

 

Minimum Qualifications and Skills 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 

• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

• Professional experience administrating Linux, cloud, and containers. 

• Professional experience coding in higher-level languages, such as Python, Java, or C++ 

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Strong verbal / written communication skills 

 

Preferred Qualifications  

• Certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Developer Associate 

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 

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.

Skills:

Computer Science; Cloud Infrastructure; DevOps

Salary:

Virginia Pay Range: $92,524.07 - $138,786.11

Additional Range: This job can be performed in Illinois with a Pay Range of $84,478.50 - $138,786.11

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.

Relevant Work Experience

2-5 Years