Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Data- FreeWheel
Listed on 2026-08-05
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IT/Tech
Data Engineering, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Data Sre
Free Wheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we're making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.
Free Wheel is seeking an experienced Data SRE to join the Free Wheel Data SRE team. As a member of the Global Operation team, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data systems. Working closely with data engineers and other operation sub-teams, you will manage our data infrastructure, optimize system reliability, automate daily operations, and resolve technical issues that impact our data pipelines and backend data platforms.
Key Responsibilities:- Design and implement monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the stability, reliability, and performance of data platforms.
- Develop and maintain automation tools and scripts for deployment, monitoring, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery of data systems.
- Analyze and optimize the performance of data storage, query performance, and data flows.
- Respond quickly to data platform failures.
- Work with data engineering teams to analyze and forecast capacity requirements.
- Document the architecture, configurations, and operational procedures for data platforms.
- Ensure data platforms meet security standards and compliance requirements.
- Collaborate with data science, product, and development teams.
- At least 10+ years of experience as an SRE, Dev Ops, or Data Operations Engineer.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Familiarity with modern data architectures and technologies including Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, HDFS, and AWS S3.
- Extensive experience in database management including No
SQL, 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.
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
- Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Education:
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Additional Preferred Skills
- Experience with Aerospike, Kafka, Snowflake, and other big data technologies.
- Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes.
- Experience designing and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience in data quality management, data governance, or ETL pipelines.
Skills:
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Python (Programming Language)
Compensation:
Virginia Pay Range: $ - $ Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
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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)
Relevant Work Experience
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