Video Platform Systems Engineer

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the worlds 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 SummaryResponsible for contributing in one or more areas of expertise in collaboration with various cross-functional project teams. Exercises solid knowledge of engineering skills and methodology. Applies long-term objectives and plans related to the company's technical vision to daily activity. Applies innovative solutions for engineering developmental problems that are competitive with industry and company standards with little direction. Works with moderate guidance in own area of knowledge.Job DescriptionAre you passionate about technology? Do you want to take your career to the next level and learn highly sought after skills? Do you enjoy challenges and collaborating with highly-motivated people like yourself? Do you thrive on problems solving that leads job satisfaction while fixing issues?As a platform systems engineer you'll be focusing on designing and deploying infrastructure platforms, from hardware up to virtualization. You will also be responsible for trouble-shooting issues related to compute platforms, virtualization and general network connectivity issues related to supporting IP video.The VIPER platform infrastructure engineering team is a fast-moving team of world-class experts who are innovating in end-to-end video delivery. We are a team that thrives on big challenges, results, quality, and agility. To be successful at VIPER, you'll have to have the right attitude and a pull yourself up by the bootstraps mentality. This is an excellent opportunity to take part in the evolution of Comcast's IP video delivery.Responsibilities:

• Gathers requirements from key stakeholders and translates those into technical requirements.
• Comprehends and implements technical systems infrastructure solutions to support development and deployment of IP video technologies and services.
• Provides systems level management and technical oversight for all systems supporting VIPER.
• Interprets and produces documentation artifacts in relation to system designs, systems administration and infrastructure standards.

• Operating Systems & Applications
  • CentOS, CoreOS Linux
  • Apache, IPVS
  • Git
  • Jira & Confluence
• Virtualization Platforms
  • VMware
  • Kubernetes, Docker
• Compute, Storage & Network Platforms
  • Generic Compute & Cisco UCS
  • Object Storage, NetApp NAS storage
  • Cisco Nexus & Arista Networks

• At least 3 years of experience installing, configuring and managing a variety of Linux based systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong willingness to grow your skills, while learning new technologies.
• Intermediate troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
• Intermediate knowledge of virtualization technologies.
• Basic scripting and automation skills.
• Basic presentation and reporting skills.
• Basic experience with DNS and DHCP.
• Basic knowledge of NAS/NFS storage technologies.
• Working knowledge of networking concepts (VLAN, TCP/IP, Multicast, Unicast, OSI).
• Working knowledge of data center operations.
• High attention to detail and strong ability to problem solve systems issues.
• Willing to take ownership of problems and see them through to resolution.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced agile environment. Requirements change quickly and our team needs to constantly adapt to moving targets.

• 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.