Comcast Cybersecurity: Security Systems Engineer

Comcast • Philadelphia, PA

21h • Hybrid

About The Position

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 In this role, the ideal candidate will have direct experience in establishing technical minimum-security baseline secure configurations across multiple technology platforms. The candidate should be a great communicator with excellent interpersonal, organizational, and documentation skills. We are looking for a self-motivated and inquisitive Secure Configuration Engineer, who enjoys cyber security work and possesses both deep and wide expertise in the security space keeping systems and network devices hardened to minimize risks to the business. The ideal candidate will be part of a cyber security technical governance team working collaboratively with various technical teams in establishing and/or reviewing technical security controls. The candidate must think innovatively in how we can best report on compliance using automation for verification and aggregating results to a central executive level dashboard. The candidate will have experience with compliance tools spanning variant technology platforms. Job Description

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical systems engineering experience with an emphasis on cyber security and/or IT Audit
• Detailed technical and security knowledge of various technology platforms including network devices, databases, operating systems (Linux, Windows), Active Directory, hypervisors, and cloud computing (Containers, orchestration tools, etc.)
• Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols
• Ability to work in a matrix team environment as well as independently, demonstrate excellent problem-solving abilities, be well organized, flexible, and self-motivated
• Ability to communicate effectively with systems engineers, network engineers and software developers
• A strong passion to continuously learn, adapt to new technologies, and share knowledge in the cybersecurity domain.
• Ability to think critically and independently

Nice To Haves

• Experience with network layer devices as a system administrator
• Knowledge of security or compliance standards such as OpenSCAP, PCI-DSS, CIS Benchmark, NIST Framework, etc.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.
• Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols
• Experience with reporting cyber security compliance across technology platforms and/or previous background in executive metric reporting
• Experience with python, GO, bash
• Proven experience working in a matrix team collaborative environment
• Ability to work remote with minimal supervision
• Good verbal and written skills
• Cyber Security Certifications, a plus: CISSP, CISM, CISA, GSEC, SSCP, CCSP

Responsibilities

• Define, document, own, and maintain minimum security baseline configurations for network devices (with an emphasis on Comcast Business technologies), operating systems (Linux and Windows), Active Directory, databases, hypervisors, and cloud platforms including containers, orchestration tools, and supporting services
• Translate security principles and industry standards such as CIS, NIST, OpenSCAP, and PCI‑DSS into actionable, platform‑specific technical controls
• Review vendor security recommendations, threat intelligence, and emerging risks to continuously refine and improve secure configuration baselines
• Participate in technical security governance reviews for new platforms or services, major system upgrades, and significant architectural changes
• Evaluate existing system and platform configurations against approved security baselines and identify gaps or deviations
• Provide prescriptive, risk‑based security guidance to engineering teams while balancing security requirements, operational feasibility, and platform constraints
• Use, maintain, and optimize secure configuration and compliance validation tools across a diverse set of infrastructure and platform technologies
• Execute, analyze, and review secure configuration and compliance scans across on‑prem and cloud environments
• Validate scan findings for accuracy, risk severity, and business impact prior to escalation or remediation planning
• Partner with system, network, and platform engineers to validate remediation actions and ensure security controls are implemented effectively
• Identify configuration drift, recurring misconfigurations, and systemic control gaps across the environment
• Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams to correct deviations, reduce operational risk, and limit repeat findings
• Recommend sustainable design changes, automation, or guardrails to prevent configuration drift and improve long‑term security posture
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance.
• Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

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 benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level