Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Data

Comcast

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Work type: On-site
Location: Reston, VA
Salary: $152,020–$228,030 / yr
Posted: 18 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Data

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The Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Data joins the FreeWheel Data SRE team within the Global Operation department. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of data systems and backend data platforms. You will design monitoring and alerting systems, develop automation tools for deployment and disaster recovery, and optimize data storage and query performance for large-scale datasets. Key responsibilities include incident response, capacity planning, and collaborating with data science and product teams to support data product design. Required technical skills include experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, and technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, HDFS, and S3. You must be proficient with Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and programming languages like Python, Go, Java, or Scala to manage complex distributed systems.

Skills

AWS GCP Azure Kafka Hadoop Spark Cassandra HDFS AWS S3 NoSQL MySQL PostgreSQL Ansible Terraform Kubernetes Docker Python Go Java Scala Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Aerospike Snowflake ETL Microservices

What you'll do

Design and implement monitoring and alerting systems to ensure data platform stability and performance.
Develop and maintain automation tools and scripts for deployment, backup, and disaster recovery.
Analyze and optimize data storage, query performance, and large-scale data flows to reduce latency.
Respond to and troubleshoot data platform failures to ensure high availability and reliability.
Forecast capacity requirements and scale infrastructure to accommodate data growth.
Document architecture, configurations, and operational procedures for all data platforms.
Ensure data platforms meet security standards and compliance requirements to prevent unauthorized access.

What we're looking for

At least 10+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Data Operations Engineer.
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Familiarity with modern data architectures including Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, HDFS, and AWS S3.
Extensive experience in database management including NoSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
Programming skills in Python, Go, Java, or Scala.
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar tools.

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