DevOps Platform Engineer

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

As one team, we work together to deliver a superior customer experience, leveraging cutting edge technology that powers our best in class products and services. Our team designs, develops, delivers, and supports innovative products and services that are essential to bringing internet, TV and voice to more than 28 million residential and business customers that includes our award winning X1 platform. The team also builds and operates mission-critical systems, including those that monitor our network – one of the world’s largest – and its associated cloud infrastructure.

Comcast’s Technology, Product, Xperience (TPX), team needs motivated, qualified individuals to help us fill a full range of positions — from engineers, product designers and developers to Call Center representatives and installation technicians all with the common goal of delivering an outstanding customer experience.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are passionate people focused on transforming the customer experience and dedicated to creating innovative solutions to address the unique challenges of our extraordinary scale

Requisition #:R326768

Pub Date:01/20/22

Job Summary

The Comcast dx Open Egress Team has responsibility for the harmonization of the data egress and consumption layer across Comcast. We support accessing enterprise data sources via a consolidated set of entry points to help lower the barrier to entry to data access and use. We are looking for a DevOps Engineer that will be responsible for planning and designing new software and web applications, complete programming and deploy, identify and resolve system issues, and define software components.

Job Description

The dx Team is building the core components needed to drive the next generation of data platforms and data processing capability at Comcast. Building data products, identifying trouble spots, and optimizing the overall user experience is a challenge that can only be met with a robust architecture capable of providing insights that would otherwise be drowned in an ocean of data. In order to provide access to data in Comcast’s platforms, our team is building an enterprise Query Fabric based on open-source and commercial Presto technologies.

This Platform Engineering role will include a mixture of DevOps responsibilities, contributing to the software development of the Query Fabric Platform, new software features and defect resolution, day-to-day platform operations and support, and other platforms/technologies (e.g. caching and web services) as needed. You will have the opportunity to make contributions to the Presto codebase as well as other open source projects, and you will be expected to support hundreds (and eventually thousands) of internal customers in their use of this platform.

Success in this position is best enabled by a broad mix of skills and interests ranging from traditional distributed systems software engineering prowess to the multidisciplinary field of data science.

Is that you? Then read on!

The DevOps Platform Engineer will:

• Develop (code/program), test, debug SQL queries and data programs supporting both internal and external technically-challenging business requirements (complex transformations, high data volume).
• Provide operational support for the underlying services and infrastructure of our Big Data platforms.
• Develop solutions capable of processing millions of events per second and multi-billions of events per day, providing both a real time and historical view into the operation of Comcast’s wide array of systems.
• Design collection and enrichment system components for quality, timeliness, scale and reliability.
• Work on high-performance real time data stores and a massive historical data stores using best-of-breed and industry-leading technology.
• Build platforms that allow others to design, develop, and apply advanced statistical methods and Machine Intelligence algorithms, fostering self-service capabilities and ease of use across the entire Technology, Product, Xperience (TPX) organization landscape and beyond!
• Drive results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Preferred Skills:

• GitHub; Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP); Java; Linux; RESTful APIs; Shell Commands; Software Development/Design; Software Engineering
• Amazon S3; Apache Ranger; Apache Thrift; AWS Glue; AWS Lambda; Database Management Systems (DBMS); Data Science; Distributed Systems Software; Enterprise Data; Hive Query Language; Massively Parallel Computing; Microsoft SQL Database; OAuth; OpenID; Python; Relational Database Management System (RDBMS); REST Client; SAML; Spark SQL; SQL PLSQL; Structured Query Language (SQL); Teradata SQL; Web Services

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.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Relevant Work Experience

0-2 Years

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