Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Company: Comcast Corporation
Location: Philadelphia
Posted on: October 26, 2024
Job Description:
FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad
platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by
premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we're
making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all
screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we
have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around
the world.Job SummaryResponsible for planning and designing new
software and web applications. Analyzes, tests and assists with the
integration of new applications. Oversees As the Site Reliability
Engineer (SRE), you will be responsible for the availability,
latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring,
emergency response, and capacity planning for the FreeWheel
platforms. You will engage in designing, analyzing and
troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, debugging
/optimizing code, and automating routine tasks. You will be part of
a team consisting of a healthy mix between software and technology
infrastructure backgrounds, provide subject matter expertise,
resolve complex break/fix scenarios and engage broader teams as
necessary, partner with engineering, vendors and client services to
deliver successful technical solutions. You shall work with limited
supervision and direction while executing associated functions and
responsibilities, follows operational practices and independently
determines/develops approaches for non-routine solutions.Job
DescriptionCore Responsibilities
- Be responsible for reliability and technical operations of
FreeWheel TV Platform Ad-Serving component(s).
- Lead technical solutions in measuring and improving
reliability, quality and efficiency of FreeWheel platforms.
- Lead in a variety of complex analytical duties in the planning,
deployment, testing and evaluation of FreeWheel products.
- Possesses in-depth working knowledge of FreeWheel platforms,
infrastructure, internal processes, and teams/partners.
- Support FreeWheel powered live events such as Super Bowl,
Olympic Games, March Madness, and FIFA World Cup.
- Plug into software release cycle, work closely with developers
and tech leads to ensure software releases are well designed,
planned, implemented, released, and monitored.
- Lead in design and implementation in authoring infrastructure
as code with best practices, tool use, and quality assurance.
- Lead technical solutions for infrastructure and application
management, monitoring, and operations with standardization and
automation focus.
- Leverages engineering methodologies and technical knowledge in
specific areas of focus.
- Lead code level debugging on issues escalated to the team.
- Lead on-call shifts, incident prevention, response, and
retrospect.
- Advocate for engineering and technical operations procedures,
policies, processes and SRE best practices.
- Partner with developers and vendors to identify and drive
improvements including production quality, operational efficiency,
engineering productivity.
- Provide support and influence for the Cybersecurity program
needs such as patching, vulnerability cleanup, secure server
configuration, testing and validation, technical controls
implementation and cybersecurity incident remediation efforts.
- Provides training and coaching to peers and more junior SRE
team members.
- Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in
matters of significance.
- Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to
work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as
necessary.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.Minimum
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related engineering
field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Prior 7 years of experience in software engineering with one of
programming languages: Python, Golang, JavaScript.
- Prior 5 years of technical operation experience for
business-critical application(s) over public cloud (AWS specific is
a big plus) services: VPC, subnets, network access control lists,
security groups, EC2 instances, S3 buckets, IAM, Route 53,
Lambda.
- Prior 5 years of experience with SDLC tools: Containers,
Kubernetes, Docker, Salt / Ansible / Chef / Puppet, Jenkins,
Git.
- Prior experience of Linux administration, network security, and
system infrastructure.
- Excellent communication and collaboration, within/across
team(s) and continents.
- Work / Shift Timings: Selected candidate will be expected to
work Eastern Standard hours & be able to work on weekend during
on-call rotation schedule: usually 12 hours a day including
weekend.Preferred requirements
- Prior experience in supporting business-critical services
before they go live through activities such as system design
consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity
planning and launch reviews.
- Technical leadership and influence demonstrated in focused
product/tech areas and practices.
- Prior experience in providing technical solutions at an
internet company.Employees at all levels are expected to:
- Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines
for how you do your job.
- Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put
our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every
touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and
services.
- Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates
of our game-changing technology, products, and services, especially
our digital tools and experiences.
- Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and
being open to new ideas.
- Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working
that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company -
by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate
opportunities to do better for our customers.
- Drive results and growth.
- Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
- Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and
our communities.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 proud to be an equal opportunity
workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran
status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by
applicable law. Comcast will consider for employment qualified
applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the
requirements of applicable law, including the Los Angeles Fair
Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and the San Francisco Fair
Chance Ordinance.Salary:National Pay Range: $112,151.21
USD-$262,854.41 USDComcast intends to offer the selected candidate
base pay within this range, dependent on job-related,
non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application
window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of
applicants requires it to close sooner or later.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.
Please visit the on our careers site for more
details.EducationBachelor's DegreeWhile possessing the stated
degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold
some combination of coursework and experience, or who have
extensive related professional experience.Relevant Work
Experience10 Years +
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