Technical Lead, On-Prem Storage & Compute Platform

Comcast•West, TX

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Tech Lead to own and drive our on-prem storage platform and associated data infrastructure. This role requires deep hands-on expertise across on-prem hardware, Linux systems, storage, networking, automation, and observability, along with the ability to provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and partner with platform and data teams. You will act as the technical owner for the on-prem storage and data ecosystem, ensuring reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.

Requirements

Strong experience as a Tech Lead / Senior Platform Engineer / Storage Engineer
Deep expertise in Linux systems administration
Hands-on experience with on-prem storage platforms, especially MinIO
Strong understanding of: Physical servers NVMe storage GPUs Networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, proxies, load balancers,switches)
Proficiency in automation and scripting: Python Ansible Shell scripting
Experience with data platforms: Alluxio Spark / Spark SQL MySQL Hive Metastore
Strong experience with observability and logging stacks
Experience managing infrastructure using Terraform
Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault for secrets management
Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimization skills
Excellent communication skills and ability to lead technical discussions

Nice To Haves

Prior experience as a technical lead or senior SRE/Platform Engineer owning a critical storage or data platform.
Experience in high‑availability, large‑scale, or low‑latency environments (e.g., analytics platforms, data lakes, or AI/ML infrastructure).
Familiarity with security and compliance requirements for enterprise environments (access controls, auditing, encryption, backup/restore policies).

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical lead and owner for the on-prem MinIO storage and Alluxio (caching) platform.
Lead architecture, implementation, and lifecycle management of the on-prem storage and data infrastructure (capacity, performance, resiliency, DR, security).
Manage and optimize on-prem hardware, including: Physical servers NVMe storage GPUs underlying OS configuration (RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux). Network components
Partner with networking team to Design and manage networking components for the platform, including : VLANs, routing, DNS, network switches, proxy, and load-balancing architectures
Lead and support automation and infrastructure tooling, including: Python Ansible Shell scripting Terraform
Support and integrate data and analytics platforms, including: Alluxio as a data orchestration/caching layer integrated with MinIO and compute engines (e.g., Spark). Apache Spark Spark SQL MySQL Hive Metastore
Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and observability solutions: Grafana Prometheus Datadog Kibana Elasticsearch Logstash
Define SLOs/SLIs/error budgets for storage and data services; lead incident response, root‑cause analysis, and long‑term remediation.
Collaborate with security, networking, DBA, and data engineering teams to ensure compliant, performant, and reliable services.
Ensure high availability, performance tuning, capacity planning, and disaster recovery
Drive best practices for GitHub workflows, code reviews, and automation pipelines
Troubleshoot complex production issues across storage, compute, networking, and applications
Mentor engineers, review designs, and set technical standards and best practices for the platform