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Job Summary

Our team is looking for an enthusiastic Network Automation Engineer with a passion for building and optimizing secure, reliable, scalable, and robust systems. As part of this role, you will be working with the development and operations teams to build, support and vigorously sustain the pre-production staging lab for synchronicity. This role will also include partnering with the development and operations team to build dashboards, thresholds and alerts using Grafana, Prometheus, and Elk and support infrastructure on OpenStack environment. Additionally, this role also will include exposure to implementing and integrating CI/CD processes and deployment strategy. The role offers an exceptional learning opportunity allowing you to expand your skills and expertise working in a supportive environment alongside seasoned engineers while making meaningful contributions to our expanding Unified Communications business.

Job Description

Who we are:  

The Unified Communications Engineering organization at Comcast innovates, develops, delivers, and operates voice and unified communications products to our commercial customers . As a member of this team, you will be part of a high-performance engineering organization focused on providing the most reliable, secure, and high-quality experience at scale to our customers. Our teams achieve this outcome by continuously improving our products utilizing modern DevSecOps practices in an end-to-end approach. Our culture focuses on constant learning, embracing diversity , fostering inclusivity, empowering individuals , dynamic collaboration, and promoting open communications.  Comcast voice and unified communications products set the standard in a highly competitive marketplace, and it is through our technology driven approach that we achieve the best customer experience for our products.    

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist in design, deployment , and management of scalable fault tolerance of services and applications .

• Assist in design, development , and deployment of any necessary pre and post maintenance validation test automation functionality.

• Maintains pre-production staging lab configurations and reliability .

• Deploy updates to applications, services and systems as required and support integration when necessary.

• Troubleshoot issues related to staging and production deployments, performance, and scalability.

• Stay current with industry trends and source new ways to improve our business.

• Creates and maintains documentation for the process and tools used by the team .

  Skillsets:

• Experience with cloud-based software developer repositories such as GitHUB .

• Experience with programming languages /scripting (Python , Java, bash)

• Experien ce with testing frameworks ( Jmeter , Postman , RestAssured)

• Experience with ticketing and reporting tool s (JIRA, GitHub, Confluence . )

• Excellent troubleshooting skills and familiarity with analyzers ( tcpdump , Wireshark, NG1, Gigamon . )

• Excellent documentation and communication skills (trouble ticket updates, documenting fixes/changes . )

• Intermediate knowledge of b asic networking concepts – (NTP, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, VLANs, Firewall/ ACL )

• Intermediate experience with logging and monitoring tools (SNMP, Prometheus, ELK , Grafana, Nagios, OP5, etc.)

• K nowledge of virtualization, cloud environments is a plus but not required .

• Familiarity with Linux and w orking knowledge of basic OS commands . (RedHat, CentOS.)

Core Responsibilities

• Ability to troubleshoot and repair all but the most complex issues. Performs maintenance activities with a minimum of supervision and guidance. Leads technical outage bridges and engages appropriate resources to drive issues to closure.

• Acts as an advocate for Engineering Operations procedures, policies and processes. Ensures projects and initiatives are adhering to Company standards.

• Tracks and reports operational workflows; maintains records of results and feedback. Analyzes data and metrics, identifies problem areas and provides actionable insight.

• Acts as a technical resource in projects and initiatives and ensures successful project implementation.

• Contributes to design considerations for new products or architectural changes to existing products.

• Analyses problems in design, configuration, data flow and data state within a highly complex multi-product provisioning system.

• Performs routine maintenance tests for designated areas of engineering and ensures all maintenance is properly validated to minimize impact.

• Provides training and guidance to less experienced team members.

• Attains industry standard certifications and education.

• 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) and overtime as necessary.

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.

• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.

• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.

• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.

• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.

• Drive results and growth.

• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.

• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

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.

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary (https://jobs.comcast.com/life-at-comcast/benefits) on our careers site for more details.

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.

Relevant Work Experience

2-5 Years