Director, Product Development Engineering (SPACE) at Comcast (West Chester, PA)

Desired Skills and Experience

• Lead a DevOps team to develop Comcast’s next-gen private cloud products focused on storage and networking to integrate with solutions such as: Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, Openstack, VMWare vSphere and public clouds like AWS and Azure.
• Provides complexity and cost estimation. Develops case studies, roadmaps and models to influence strategic spending. Ensures effective implementation of the department budget. Prepares financial statements and monthly forecasts and reports. Prepares and analyzes monthly financial performance and makes budget and new technology recommendations.
• Create automation, employ open source software, interact with API’s, and enable CI/CD to create new cloud features, harvest/visualize metrics, monitor health/performance/capacity using infrastructure as code methodologies.
• Partner with product and development teams to provide education and design consultation.
• Automate installs of popular big data tools with Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Go running on cloud environments.
• Integrate our products into existing internal cloud portals through the use of APIs and collaboration with other development teams.
• Work collaboratively across teams to productize solutions.
• Extensive knowledge of DevOps methodologies, CI/CD pipelines and related tools (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.) and solid Experience with Version Control systems GitHub.
• Innovating with open source software to create production services.
• 10+ years programming experience in Python, Go, node.js, JavaScript, or Java.
• 5+ years of automation experience with Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Understanding of domain-driven design, and 12-Factor applications.
• 8+ years of experience in development/maintenance of Enterprise Web Applications.
• Experience in designing and deploying cloud-native enterprise applications in public or private cloud.
• Experience with Agile (Scrum) project methodology and practices.
• Hands-on experience in PaaS (Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk) and IaaS environments (Azure, AWS, Google, OpenStack, etc.)
• Experience with open source and development platforms such as Spring/Java, Ruby/Rails, Go, Python, messaging (RabbitMQ/AMQP, JMS), RDBMS, NoSQL and Hadoop.
• Excellent communication skills and able to successfully articulate technology concepts to both business and technical audience.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand business requirements, propose reference architectures, and possible technology solutions. Must be capable of presenting options and weigh implementation complexities and risks to recommend the right technical decision.
• Experience in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints.