DevOps Engineer at Comcast (Philadelphia, PA)

Comcast's Technology & Product organization works at the intersection of media and technology. Our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products that transform the customer experience. From creating apps like TVGo to new features such as the Talking Guide on the X1 platform, we work every day to make a positive impact through innovation in the pursuit of building amazing products that are enjoyable, easy to use and accessible across all platforms. The team also develops and supports our evolving network architecture, including next-generation consumer systems and technologies, infrastructure and engineering, network integration and management tools, and technical standards.

Job Summary:

Comcast's Technology & Product organization works at the intersection of media and technology. Our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products that transform the customer experience. From creating exciting products like X1 and new features such as the Voice Remote on the X1 platform, we work every day to make a positive impact through innovation in the pursuit of building amazing products that are enjoyable, easy to use, and accessible across all platforms. The team also develops and supports our evolving network architecture, including next-generation consumer systems and technologies, infrastructure and engineering, network integration and management tools, and technical standards.

We have an exciting role for a DevOps Engineer in Comcast's SE ACE team. Our team works closely with our internal and external partners to develop, qualify, deploy, and support multiple back office platforms for Video technologies across all LOBs. Efforts within the SE ACE organization help ensure a world-class customer experience for the millions of Comcast customers on our X1 platform applications and more!

We are looking for a highly motivated engineer who will help drive change and help others to continuously come up with better solutions to evaluate product quality, performance and the customer experience; as well as make suggestion for improvements. We are looking for someone who does not just know how to solve problems, but who helps define the problems and direction, creates value, and pioneers new frontiers.

Core Responsibilities:

-As a DevOps engineer and team member you will be assigned user stories in any of the following disciplines: Development; Test; Deployment; Operations; Automation; Tooling; Monitoring

-Full participant in On Call rotations; Daily SCRUMs; Iterative planning, grooming, retrospectives, Demos;

-Develop, test and deploy reliable, efficient and cost-effective automation solutions leveraging modern frameworks across multiple environments and using modern test approaches

-Work closely with onshore DevOps teams, Product and Development owners, in defining user story requirements.

-Drive automation development of new functionality ahead of, or in, the same iteration in which its' user story was completed. -Immediate automation.

-Deliver high-reliability, cost-effective automation solutions to be used by offshore and onshore DevOps teams

-Able to adapt development, test, and automation solutions to the fast-paced DevOps paradigm

-Produce documentation of overall automation design, operation and test coverage

-Regular, consistent and punctual attendance; able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary

-Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Technical/Core Skills:

-Automation Tools/Frameworks Basic to advanced experience with Behavior driven, Keyword driven and Hybrid frameworks and built-in frameworks like Junit and TestNG, Cucumber, Fitnesse, Selenium.

-Performance automation tools- Bonus- Gatling, Jmeter, HP Performance Center

-Operating Systems: Proficient in Linux, Unix

-Networking: Basic to advanced networking knowledge and concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SSL

-Virtualization: Basic to advanced experience with VMWare VSphere

-CI Build and Repository tools: Basic to advanced experience with Jenkins, GitHub, Maven

-Deployment automation: Bonus-Ansible; Docker; Kubernetes

-Traffic Shaping Technologies: Bonus-HAProxy, Nginx

Programming Languages:

-Mandatory- Java/JEE, Bash/Shell Scripts, Basic Web Technologies

-Bonus- Perl, Python, C, C++, C#, Clojure, Go, YAML, AWS, SpringBoot, Javascript

-Databases: Mandatory at least one: MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra

-Caching/Queing Technologies: Bonus; RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, RIAK, HBase, Redis, Hazelcast

-US and Defect tracking tools: Basic to advanced experience with Jira and ALM

-Reporting Tools: Splunk, Graphana

-Monitoring: Nagios, etc

-Troubleshooting: Ping, traceroute, curl, wget, tcpdump, nmap

-Security best practices: public/private keys, vpn, vip and securid, radius

Job Specification:

-BS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field/ MCA

-4+ years of experience in development

-Strong understanding of software development lifecycle with preferred experience in working in Continuous Integration (CI) software release and related tooling

-Proven ability to troubleshoot problems and provide solutions

-Willing to deliver high quality results in a busy and dynamic business focused environment.

-Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology and DevOps

-Strong written and verbal communications skills; able to effectively present to varied audiences

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer

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Sr. Lead Salesforce Engineer at Comcast (Philadelphia, PA)

Comcast's Technology & Product organization works at the intersection of media and technology. Our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products that transform the customer experience. From creating apps like TVGo to new features such as the Talking Guide on the X1 platform, we work every day to make a positive impact through innovation in the pursuit of building amazing products that are enjoyable, easy to use and accessible across all platforms. The team also develops and supports our evolving network architecture, including next-generation consumer systems and technologies, infrastructure and engineering, network integration and management tools, and technical standards.

Job Summary:

The Salesforce Tech Lead / Architect is ultimately responsible for promoting the use of industry and Company technology standards. Monitors emerging technologies/technology practices for potential use within the Company. Designs and develops updated infrastructure in support of one or more business processes. Helps to ensure a balance between tactical and strategic technology solutions. Considers business problems end-to-end: including people, process, and technology, both within and outside the enterprise, as part of any design solution. Mentors, reviews codes and verifies that the object oriented design best practices and that coding and architectural guidelines are adhered to. Identifies and drives issues through closure. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment. May lead teams or projects and shares expertise.

Core Responsibilities:

-Ensures programs are envisioned, designed, developed, and implemented across the enterprise to meet business needs. Interfaces with the enterprise architecture team and other functional areas to ensure that most efficient solution is designed to meet business needs.

-Ensures solutions are well engineered, operable, maintainable, and delivered on schedule.

-Tracks and documents requirements for enterprise development projects and enhancements.

-Monitors current and future trends, technology and information that will positively affect organizational projects; applies and integrates emerging technological trends to new and existing systems architecture.

-Stay up-to-date on upcoming releases to the Salesforce platform to proactively identify compatibility issues and opportunities to implement new features. Evaluate new technologies and patterns that help to enhance the user experience, increase the speed of delivery or improve quality of implementations.

-Presents solutions to senior architects.

-Plans and designs new or upgraded systems. Interacts with departments to implement improvements in process.

-Develops solution architecture (both tactical and strategic) to fully manage/support enterprise needs, services, systems and technology management.

-Assist the development team to continually optimize CI/CI tooling and improve process that increases speed to market of deliverables without compromising quality.

-Mentors team members in relevant technologies and implementation architecture.

-Collaborate with developers, architects and Salesforce support network to ensure features and customizations are architected and built in adherence to best practices.

-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.

Required Qualifications:

-BA/BS or Associate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or related field.

-Salesforce Developer and Sales/Service cloud consultant certifications.

-Minimum 5 years working on a Salesforce development team in all phases of the SDLC.

-Minimum 5 years architecting and building solutions in Salesforce including Lightning, Visualforce, Apex and integration with API.

-Possess working knowledge of Wave Analytics, Tableau and Splunk reporting tools.

-Experienced in developing with Java (or other OOP) and front end development with JavaScript.

-Experienced in delivering releases managed in source control with CI / CD tooling.

-Comprehensive understanding of SOA, technologies, testing tools and ability to author interface specifications.

-Advanced proficiency with use of Microsoft Office applications including, Word, Excel and Visio and other tools that facilitate the requirements definition and design phases of the SDLC.

Desirable Skills / Experience:

-Salesforce Architect certification.

Personal Characteristics:

-High aptitude for software technology and tools strong propensity toward learning new technologies and design patterns.

-Passion for continuous process improvement.

-Driven by goals and pursuit of professional development.

-Ability to rapidly re-prioritize and handle shifting priorities while demonstrating a high degree of professionalism and adaptability.

-Strong communication skills (written, interpersonal, presentation), with the ability to easily and effectively interact and negotiate with business stakeholders.

-Ability to effectively deal with ambiguity, uncertainty, and incomplete information when evaluating alternatives and making recommendations.

-Must have "can do" / "will do" attitude.

-Must be a team player-highly adaptive, resourceful, accountable, enjoys learning and sharing.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer

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