Site Reliability Engineer, Data - FreeWheel

Comcast•Reston, VA

About The Position

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking a Data Domain Site Reliability Engineer to join its Data SRE team within the Global Operation team. The role is responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of data systems. Working with data engineers and other operations teams, the engineer manages data infrastructure, improves system reliability, automates operational tasks, and resolves issues affecting data pipelines and backend data platforms. The position involves monitoring and optimizing data platforms; developing automation for deployment, monitoring, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery; improving storage, query, and data-flow performance; responding to incidents; planning capacity and scaling infrastructure; documenting systems and sharing operational knowledge; maintaining security and compliance; and collaborating with data science, product, and development teams to support data products and address reliability issues. The role requires at least five years of SRE, DevOps, or Data Operations experience, relevant cloud, database, automation, CI/CD, programming, and monitoring expertise, and a bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field. Comcast lists a Virginia base-pay range of $109,178.41–$163,767.61, with the selected candidate’s pay dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors. Eligible employees may receive Comcast benefits; details are available in the company’s compensation and benefits summary.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, or Data Operations Engineer.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Extensive database-management experience, including NoSQL databases, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
Proficiency with automation tools and frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, or Docker.
Strong experience with modern CI/CD pipelines.
Programming skills in Python, Go, Java, or Scala, including the ability to write efficient scripts and automation tools.
Experience with monitoring and log-management tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack.
Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, including the ability to identify and resolve production issues quickly.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain technical information clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; the posting also says Comcast may consider coursework and experience or extensive related professional experience.

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 for data-platform stability, reliability, and performance.
Respond to and resolve issues affecting 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 data-storage performance, query performance, and data flows; reduce latency and improve processing speed.
Troubleshoot data-platform failures and coordinate cross-team efforts to resolve them.
Maintain high availability and reliability of data platforms.
Work with data engineering teams to forecast capacity needs and scale infrastructure to accommodate data growth.
Document data-platform architecture, configurations, and operational procedures; share knowledge and provide relevant training.
Ensure data platforms meet security standards and compliance requirements, and prevent breaches, unauthorized access, and data misuse.
Collaborate with data science, product, and development teams to support data product design and implementation and resolve platform reliability issues.

Benefits

Eligible employees have access to Comcast benefits; specific benefits are not enumerated in the posting.
Most non-sales positions are eligible for a bonus.

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