OpenStack Platform Engineer (Eng4)
Remote, US
Overview
Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. Become part of our award-winning, international engineering 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. You’ll do the best work of your career right here.
Success Profile
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- Results-driven
- Adaptable
- Inventive
- Entrepreneurial
- Team Player
- Problem-Solver
Responsibilities
OpenStack Platform Engineer (Eng4)
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, capacityutilization 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:
- 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.
- Expertise with OpenStack
- Expert Linux knowledge
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
- 5-7 years relevant experience
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. Comcast will consider for employment applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the requirements of applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Please note that federal state, or local laws and regulations may restrict or prohibit Comcast from hiring individuals convicted of certain crimes. Additionally, an applicant’s criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the job duties of this position, which may result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment.
Skills:
Red Hat Ansible; OpenStack; Virtualization; Linux; Python (Programming Language)
Salary:
National Pay Range: $85,049.13 USD-$199,333.90 USD Illinois Pay Range: $90,364.70 USD - $175,413.83 USD Colorado Pay Range: $95,680.27 USD - $183,387.18 USD Hawaii Pay Range: $111,626.98 USD - $167,440.47 USD Washington DC Pay Range: $122,258.12 USD - $183,387.18 USD Maryland Pay Range: $100,995.84 USD - $183,387.18 USD Minnesota Pay Range: $95,680.27 USD - $167,440.47 USD New York Pay Range: $100,995.84 USD - $199,333.90 USD Washington Pay Range: $95,680.27 USD - $191,360.54 USD California Pay Range: $95,680.27 USD - $199,333.90 USD New Jersey Pay Range: $106,311.41 USD - $191,360.54 USD Vermont Pay Range: $100,995.84 USD - $159,467.12 USD
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.
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
10 Years +
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