DevOps Engineer CDN Analytics

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Comcast

DevOps Engineer, CDN Analytics

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Walnut Creek

California

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the worlds best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Job Summary

As a DevOps Engineer on the CDN Analytics team you’ll be using tools like Ansible and Python to engineer solutions for infrastructure and application deployment related issues. You’ll be bridging the gap between sys admin and developer as you work to move our infrastructure support and automation to the next level.

Job Description

The Analytics  DevOps  team is a small and fast-moving team of world-class experts who are innovating to provide a robust platform serving our IP Video delivery customers, both internal and external. We are a team that thrives on big challenges, results, quality, and agility.  We work with network engineers, systems administrators, software engineers, product managers. The Analytics DevOps  team is a diverse collection of software engineers, systems administrators, network administrators, and configuration managers from all walks of life.  We’re a group of experienced technical minds who are the last word when it comes to solving problems encountered by our production support teams.

In your role, you will bridge the gap between development/engineering for production support.  Develop innovative ways to perform upgrades, deployments in production to scale out our analytics infrastructure for CDN growth across Comcast's/Syndication Partner's footprint. As DevOps Engineer, your mission will be to stay on top of planned maintenances and drive solutions to reduce downtime and manual maintenance effort. Create new metrics and identify monitoring solutions to improve site and services.  Success in this role is characterized by a higher speed to market, with fewer customer-facing defects and outages.

Responsibilities:

Perform upgrades and deployments to production 

Identify root cause and deliver solutions with permanent fix for production incidents 

Scale/Manage a large Kubernetes infrastructure

Deliver innovative proactive self-healing capabilities  

Develop automated deployment solution through CI/CD  

Work independently as part of an agile team 

Investigate new technologies to improve operational efficiency 

Enable team to successfully achieve service level objectives in terms of high availability, capacity growth and maintaining performance of overall CDN platform 

Provide 24x7 on-call support for production incidents 

Here are some of the specific technologies we use:

ClickHouse

Kafka

Kubernetes

Python

Ansible

Linux (CentoOS)

Git

Preferred Skills:

Strong understanding of Networking Concepts - TCP/IP, DHCP basic routing 

Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible )

Experience with a variety of programming languages including, but not limited to: Go, Perl, Python, Shell/Bash, Groovy 

Version Control using GitHub 

Strong understanding of content delivery network through use of forward/reverse proxies and caching hierarchies 

Familiarity with Distributed databases, OP5/Nagios, Kafka, Grafana, InfluxDB 

Strong communication and interpersonal skills 

Willing to take ownership of problems and see them through to resolution 

A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering and some professional work experience or equivalent work experience.

About the CDN Team:

The CDN team is a fun fast-paced team within Comcast’s (VIPER) Video IP and Engineering Research group. Our office is based in Denver’s LoDo district. Our technology is open-source based, and our products deliver video and other content over IP infrastructure to an array of connected devices in and out of the home.

Disclaimer:

This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

Will consider a remote employee for the right talent

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Relevant Work Experience

5-7 Years

Salary:

Pay Range: $89,135.07 - $133,702.61

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience.

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. 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 compensation and benefits summary (https://jobs.comcast.com/life-at-comcast/benefits) on our careers site for more details.

Company info

Comcast
Website : http://corporate.comcast.com