About the Role
The Comcast Cloud Team is seeking an OpenStack Platform Engineer to help design, test, optimize, and deploy our multi-region private cloud environment. This role requires expertise in Linux systems engineering, virtualization, networking, and troubleshooting, with a strong emphasis on automation and a security-first mentality to solve large-scale engineering problems.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Architecture on designing new features and capabilities for our OpenStack product.
- Research software, hardware, and other technologies to advance our private cloud portfolio.
- Optimize the cost, availability, performance, and developer experience of our OpenStack product.
- Validate new OpenStack releases through automated functional and performance testing.
- Integrate evolving security and compliance requirements into new OpenStack product releases.
- Continue to evolve and enhance existing deployment automation capabilities.
- Support SRE team for L3 escalations.
Requirements
- Advanced Linux knowledge and hands-on experience.
- 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: ability to understand and address complex problems by understanding relationships within an interconnected system.
- Data-driven decision making: capability to define metrics for success and failure, design systems and processes to test and gather relevant data, and let data guide decision making.
- Experience with OpenStack deployments.
- 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 (e.g., GitHub portfolio).
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Willingness to learn by asking questions and showing initiative.
- 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.
Skills
- Linux
- OpenStack
- Python
- Red Hat Ansible
- Virtualization
Location
- Virginia
- Denver Campus
Work Type
- On-site
- Virtual
Experience Level
- 7-10 Years
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
Salary/Compensations
- $113,886.55 - $187,099.34
Benefits
- Best-in-class Benefits
- Commission (for sales positions)
- Bonus (for non-sales positions)
About the Company
- Comcast is a Fortune 30 global media and technology company reaching hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.
- We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas.
- We ensure you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace.
- The Global Cloud Technologies team provides the digital foundation for our application developers to reach millions of customers across the globe.
- 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, capacity utilization, 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
