Engineer 3, Engineering Operations (BUS-F0166)

Posted:
7/23/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Tamil Nadu, India ⋅ Thoraipakkam, Tamil Nadu, India

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's 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

Are you excited about modernizing infrastructure workflows using innovative automation methods? We're seeking a DevOps Engineer III to join our dynamic team. If you're an expert in Ansible with experience utilizing AWX for infrastructure automation and configuration management, proficient in CI/CD pipelines utilizing tools like GitHub, Concourse, or Jenkins, and familiar with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes for container deployment and management, we want to hear from you! Join us in shaping the future of our infrastructure automation, with a focus on continuous deployment and leveraging cutting-edge technologies to meet our evolving needs.

Job Description

Who we are:  

 

The Unified Communications Engineering organization at Comcast innovates, develops, delivers, and operates voice and unified communications products to our commercial customers. As a member of this team, you will be part of a high-performance engineering organization focused on providing the most reliable, secure, and high-quality experience at scale to our customers. Our teams achieve this outcome by continuously improving our products utilizing modern DevSecOps practices in an end-to-end approach. Our culture focuses on constant learning, embracing diversity, fostering inclusivity, empowering individuals, dynamic collaboration, and promoting open communications.  Comcast voice and unified communications products set the standard in a highly competitive marketplace, and it is through our technology driven approach that we achieve the best customer experience for our products.    

Job Responsibilities: 

  • Analyze business requirements and design and implement automation solutions to drive efficiency and reliability, with a strong emphasis on continuous deployment. 

  • Develop and maintain comprehensive system automation documentation and version control to ensure transparency and traceability. 

  • Define and uphold server installation/configuration standards for OS, hardware, software, and version levels, ensuring consistency and reliability. 

  • Lead continuous quality improvement processes in collaboration with operations and deployment teams, fostering a culture of excellence. 

  • Deploy, maintain, and enhance software and system monitoring services to ensure optimal performance and reliability. 

  • Design and implement robust continuous integration and deployment environments, leveraging Ansible automation to streamline development processes. 

  • Mentor and lead others in the adoption of current and future toolsets and technologies, driving innovation and growth across the team. 

 

Skillsets: 

  • Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience as a DevOps engineer, with a focus on infrastructure automation and continuous deployment. 

  • Expertise in deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS. 

  • Extensive experience developing Ansible automation for configuration management and deployment, with proficiency in CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub, Concourse, or Jenkins. 

  • Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes for container deployment and management. 

  • Proficiency in any of the programming/scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript etc. 

 

Core Responsibilities

  • Drives issues through closure engaging all appropriate resources. Leads technical bridges and provides troubleshooting direction. Provides guidance and recommended solutions to complex technical issues.
  • Acts as an advocate for Engineering Operations procedures, policies and processes. Ensures projects are fully integrated into the operations environment including lifecycle problem management from front line CARE through Engineering.
  • Creates data and metric systems to track operational workflows; maintains records of results and feedback. Analyzes data and metrics, identifies problem areas and provides actionable insight to management.
  • Provides input to Engineering and vendors on defects and required enhancements. Attains all relevant industry standard technical certifications.
  • Performs complex and routine maintenance tests for designated areas of engineering. Identifies, isolates and escalates issues to appropriate personnel. Ensures that all maintenance is properly validated to minimize subscriber impact to (ideally) zero.
  • Contributes to design considerations for new products or architectural changes to existing products. Assists with or leads efforts to build new application infrastructure, coordinating efforts across teams.
  • Analyses problems in design, configuration, data flow and data state within a highly complex multi-product provisioning system.
  • Serves as team lead on multiple projects, often spanning different engineering disciplines within the organization.
  • Leads the integration of projects into operations including instrumentation, automation, standardization and methods/procedures.
  • Does not have any direct supervisory responsibilities. May direct workflow and act as a technical lead.
  • 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.

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.

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.


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Education

Bachelor's Degree

While 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.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relative Work Experience

5-7 Years

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.