Software Development & Network Ops Engineer

Description:

Make your mark at Comcast — a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You’ll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

Job Summary

The Next Generation Access Networks organization is a highly agile, fast paced and dedicated group responsible for the network serving our customers representing over 400,000 miles of fiber-coax plant and the delivery of 115+ Tbps of edge capacity to our customers. We lead and oversees the delivery of every service and every bit that is delivered to the home. The group also owns the design, development, construction and incubation of next-gen access architectures for residential, multi-family, and commercial networks. This includes the delivery of DOCSIS 3.1 powered gig Internet services, the transition to NFV/SDN on the Access network by virtualizing the CMTS core and transition to new digital nodes. The software applications we are building is a containerized, microservice-based, cloud-deployed services. We are working to bring X1 innovation and the power of network virtualization and software defined networks to the data delivery world. This role will be changing the industry forever!

Job Description

The Software Development & DevOpsEngineer will take an essential part of the oversee and actively manage operational tech challenges in our Core Virtualization projectas well as operational related software development.  We are looking for a collaborative and results oriented developer who has depth in Kubernetes, Networks, operations technical analysis & development life cycle (Agile & DevOps).  The engineer will be highly powered to design and lead operational needs to reach to the highest levels of system availability.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for the day-to-day Comcast’s Access Network system operation with concentration on metrics data collection, analysis, reporting, tools and solutions development, systems integration and operational support.

• Write tested, production-ready code.

• Participate in software release and deployment activities managed under an agile software development approach.

• Support production environments. 

• Perform troubleshooting of issues within a containerized application environmentProduce root cause analysis independently and by collaborating with other operational support teams (e.g. network support, divisions, and vendors).

• Participate in design and architecture sessions.

• Build effective deployment and monitoring systems.

• Work closely with Development, Deployment, Incident, Problem, Quality, Program, Product and Management teams.

• Collaborate constructively with team members.

• Ability to work under pressure being adaptable and responsive to organizational requirements.

• Maintain high degree of self-motivation and independent decision making.Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

 Must Have:

• Must have experience and practical knowledge of microservice architecture, containerized deployment, Docker, Kubernetes and Ansible.

• Must have experience and practical knowledgeof networking protocols: IPv4, TCP/IP, and UDP/IP, IPv6, multicast, BGP, ISIS.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience with operational open source tools and technologies such as Prometheus, Alert Manager, Elastic Search, Kibana, Kafka, Grafana,Thanos, Redis, RabbitMQ

• Experience in one of the following: C++, Java, Go, Python.

• Experience in Switching and Routing with hands on experience with Cisco/Juniper switches.

• Good current knowledge of Unix/Linux environments.

• Experience with shell scripting to automate tasks and perform basic data analysis.

• Experience in Test-driven development/test automation, continuous integration, and deployment automation.

• Good communicator, able to analyze and clearly articulate complex issues and technologies understandably and engagingly.

• Great design and problem-solving skills, with a strong bias for architecting at scale.

• Adaptable, proactive and willing to take ownership.Keen attention to detail and high level of commitment.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced agile environment. Requirements change quickly and our team needs to constantly adapt to moving targets.

• Familiarity with distributed systems, asynchronous messaging, and network protocols.

• Familiarity with data serialization formats like XML, JSON and protocol buffers.Know your stuff. 

• A hardworking learner, user and advocate of our groundbreaking technology.High level of accountability – takes ownership of problems and sees them through to resolution

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