Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Data - FreeWheel

ComcastChicago, IL
$117,628 - $176,442

About The Position

FreeWheel is seeking an experienced Data SRE to join the FreeWheel Data SRE team. As a member of the Global Operation team, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data systems. Working closely with data engineers and other operation sub-teams, you will manage our data infrastructure, optimize system reliability, automate daily operations, and resolve technical issues that impact our data pipelines and backend data platforms.

Requirements

  • At least 8+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Data Operations Engineer.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Extensive experience in database management (e.g., NoSQL databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
  • Proficiency in automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker) for automating data system deployment and maintenance.
  • Strong experience with modern CI/CD pipelines.
  • Programming skills in Python, Go, Java, or Scala with the ability to write efficient scripts and automation tools.
  • Experience using monitoring and log management tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack.
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills with the ability to quickly identify and resolve production issues.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical information clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

  • Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience designing and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience in data quality management, data governance, or ETL pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the stability, reliability, and performance of data platforms.
  • Quickly respond to and resolve issues impacting data pipelines or storage layers.
  • Develop and maintain automation tools and scripts for deployment, monitoring, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery of data systems.
  • Analyze and optimize the performance of data storage, query performance, and data flows to ensure efficient processing of large-scale datasets.
  • Reduce latency and improve processing speed.
  • Respond quickly to data platform failures.
  • Perform troubleshooting and coordinate cross-team efforts to resolve issues.
  • Ensure high availability and reliability of data platforms.
  • Work with data engineering teams to analyze and forecast capacity requirements.
  • Ensure systems can accommodate data growth and scale infrastructure accordingly.
  • Document the architecture, configurations, and operational procedures for data platforms.
  • Share knowledge across the team and provide relevant training.
  • Ensure data platforms meet security standards and compliance requirements.
  • Prevent data breaches, unauthorized access, and data misuse.
  • Collaborate with data science, product, and development teams.
  • Support data product design and implementation.
  • Resolve reliability-related issues across the platform.

Benefits

  • 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.
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