Eng 2, Software Network Engineer at Comcast (Mount Laurel, NJ)

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:
Engineers within the Network Services Engineering (NSE) platform team need to bring a special mix of unique talents and abilities in order to confront the novel challenges we tackle head-on every day. You will be at the forefront of real-world deployment of large virtualized networking platforms and services, working in a collaborative, agile environment to design, develop, and deploy Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and other automation at Comcast.

Employees are expect to:

- Consistently works with leads, matrix teams of experts, project managers, and other engineers to drive technology that provides for smooth introduction of new products and features.

- Work within virtual teams to shorten our RD and Design cycle for new products and network evolution.

- Contributes to achievement of long-term objectives and plans.

- Develops requirements, design, development, integration, test of network projects/products and decisions serve as precedents for future issues.

- Develops expertise in emerging technologies, products, and techniques to contribute back to the project.

- Develops or utilizes DevOps automation to deploy software and perform continuous integration (CI) testing. Participates in operational support for always-on custom and packaged software systems.

- 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.

Core Responsibilities:
- Develops solutions to a wide range of difficult applications, problems or procedures.
- Supports Lead Engineer with the architecture, design, development, technical roadmaps.
- Works with engineering project management and lead engineer to deliver applications that meet or exceed product requirements, project schedules and reliability.
- Assists product development and operations teams to define technical requirements to accompany existing products and operation requirements.
- Designs and develops use cases in support of the technical requirements.
- Determines resources, technology and course of action to achieve results.
- Provides leadership and consultative direction to the organization,department and group.
- 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) as necessary.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements:

- Knowledge networking concepts and administration (TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, GRE, Openvswitch, Load balancing)

- 1+ years of software experience using python frameworks (django, flask).

- Designing and developing scalable web services using RESTful or SOAP services with related technologies such as JSON and XML

- Hands on Experience in Oracle/MongoDB/MySQL/Cassandra

- Experience in testing frameworks such as JUnit, Ant

- Experience with Scrum, TDD and DevOps/Continuous Integration such as Jenkins, Git, Puppet, Gerrit, SonarQube, Ansible

- Experience in 24x7 DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering teams

-Ability to quickly learn new technologies and work independently with minimal supervision in an agile (SCRUM) environment

Preferred Skills:

- Understanding of the OpenStack project ecosystem and open source hypervisor technologies (Xen, KVM).

- Experience supporting large-scale, Elastic, Highly Available cloud environment orchestration on AWS, Azure or OpenStack

- Development/Coding Experience with OpenStack Neutron

- Working knowledge of Dockers/Containers, Fleet/ Kubernetes Container Management

- Experience with monitoring tools and alerting systems such as Zabbix, Nagios, OpsView, HP OpenView, NewRelic, or Big Brother

- Knowledge of Linux and common Linux applications (Kernel tuning, iptables, MySQL, RabbitMQ, HAproxy, Apache).

- Microservices strategy and implementation

- Experience in Multi-threading, Performance Tuning, Complex Data Model projects

- Experience with Virtual Router (Alacatel Lucent VRS, Cisco, Juniper, Brocade), VNF (vLB, vFW, v DNS)

- Good experience with Software Defined Networking models (Yang/Netconf/yaml) , solid understanding of the SDN/NFV controllers architecture like Tail-F, Contrail, Versa, Nuage, Cyan, Onos, OpenDaylight, etc.

- Hands on experience with virtualization acceleration technologies in Intel (DPDK, SR-IOV, VPP)

Job Specification:
- Generally requires 2-5 years related experience
- Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
- Engineering, Computer Science

Comcast is anEOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employerand all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex or any other legally protected category.

by via developer jobs - Stack Overflow