CO Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Data- FreeWheel Comcast Site Reliability In listing 9d ago
Listed on 2026-10-22
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IT/Tech
Data Engineering, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
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.
Job SummaryFree 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.
Job DescriptionKey Responsibilities:
System Monitoring and Optimization
- Design and implement monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the stability, reliability, and performance of data platforms.
- Quickly respond to and resolve issues impacting data pipelines or storage layers.
- 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.
- Ensure efficient processing of large-scale datasets.
- Reduce latency and improve processing speed.
- Respond quickly to data platform failures.
- Perform troubleshooting and coordinate cross-team efforts to resolve issues.
- Ensure high availability and reliability of data platforms.
- Work with data engineering teams to analyze and forecast capacity requirements.
- Ensure systems can accommodate data growth and scale infrastructure accordingly.
- Document the architecture, configurations, and operational procedures for data platforms.
- Share operational knowledge across the team and provide relevant training.
- Ensure data platforms meet security standards and compliance requirements.
- Prevent data breaches, unauthorized access, and misuse of data.
- Collaborate with data science, product, and development teams.
- Support data product design and implementation efforts.
- Resolve reliability-related issues and improve platform stability.
- 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, ora related field.
- Experience with Aerospike, Kafka, Snowflake, and other big data technologies.
- Familiarity with containerization,microservices architecture, and Kubernetes.
- Experience designing andmaintaininglarge-scale distributed systems.
- Experience in data quality management, data governance, or ETL pipelines.
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.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Python (Programming Language)
CompensationVirginia Pay Range: $ - $This job can be performed in Illinois, and New York City with a Pay Range of $ - $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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