Comcast shapes the future at the intersection of media and technology. Comcast provides one of the kind entertainment platform, High Speed Data platform, and Internet of Things services including Home Security services. We create world-class experiences that people love and trust and drive innovation that builds value. We bring millions TV and entertainment, sports and news, communications and home management, theme parks, home security, Voice, and high speed Internet access. Comcast brings to life the best of what’s to come. Comcast brings Entertainment, Internet, Voice, and other services to the customers via the largest footprint of networks in the country. 20M+ On-Demand video are streamed daily, 8200 Video and Audio Channels are streamed daily across the country, 167M+ phone calls are made and 153M messages are send daily on our network. Comcast supports more than 800K route miles or network pipeline.

As our Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be leveraging your expert technical knowledge and past implementation experience in designing and building our new, automated container orchestration platform based on industry standard open source tools (Kubernetes, Mesosphere DCOS, RedHat Openshift). Your role will be to architect and implement an end-to-end container management system fit for challenging enterprise-scale requirements and lead its initial adoption across a range of use cases. You will be responsible for overall solution architecture, vendor engagements, technical PoCs, initial deployment and integration with all infrastructure and development functions hence you will need excellent understanding of infrastructure operations as well as tools and patterns used in an agile development, continuous delivery environment.

Based on your previous technical achievements in a leading Cloud or Web 2.0 environment, you will inspire our application teams by sharing the vision and the benefits of our containerized applications future and the Cloud-native target architecture.

As a leading Kubernetes technologist, your role will be to initiate the transformation ofbusiness-critical applications by creating Cloud architecture patterns and deploying enterprise grade container management infrastructure. We are looking for someone to lead by example in evangelizing the container-based, infrastructure agnostic, “born in the Cloud” technology model and to do so from a “been-there, done-that” point of view.

This is a unique opportunity for the right candidate to champion exciting new technology in a Fortune 50 organization and establish a reference implementation that could be adopted across extensive technology portfolio. You will be promoting benefits of application containerization and infrastructure management automation across the organization and will need to confidently engage and present to application developers, infrastructure managers and senior business sponsors alike.

Responsibilities

Skills and Qualifications

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Develop and operate an enterprise scale multi-tenant container management service
  • Develop and promote cloud native application architectures and the benefits of leveraging containers and micro-services
  • Integrate multiple public and private cloud and bare metal infrastructure as resources for a hybrid cloud
  • Extensive hands-on engineering and implantation knowledge of leading container orchestration and infrastructure management tools (Kubernetes, Mesosphere DCOS, RedHat Openshift)
  • Expert knowledge of public cloud providers (Amazon AWS/EC2, MS Azure, Google Compute Platform, OpenStack) and their technology offering, APIs and enterprise integration points
  • Extensive design and implementation experience of enterprise grade app container orchestration infrastructure and supporting technology stacks
  • Proficiency in a modern, Cloud native APIs, development languages and frameworks (Python, Ruby, Java, Node.js)
  • Experience with Agile development tools (Jira, Crucible, Fisheye, Git)
  • Good understanding of hardware, operating system, virtualization platforms and middleware components frequently used by Cloud providers (RedHat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, VMware products, and OpenStack)
  • Understanding of security and reliability implications of financial services or similar industry
  • Confident presenter, and strong influencer; able to adapt level and style to the audience Proven management responsibility for end-to-end infrastructure transformation projects
  • Demonstrated ability to conceive, manage, and complete software deliverables
  • Linux systems administration skills, across distributions, and especially in a cloud or virtualized environment
  • Understanding of IP networking and traffic scaling
  • Experience with agile development methodologies, rapid application development, and project management
  • Proven ability to design and present understandable and practical solutions to complex problems
  • Demonstrated leadership skills in a fast-paced, team-driven environment
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including visual presentation skills
  • Demonstrated experience in research data collection, analysis, and presentation
  • Experience with intellectual property portfolio management, especially patents and trademarks
  • Ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
  • Ability to travel when needed; expected travel is 5-25%
  • Ability to promote technologies to large audiences or top level executives