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Job Summary

As a Sr. Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for building, managing, and optimizing the underlying infrastructure and tools that enable efficient, scalable, and reliable execution of large-scale data processing workloads. Designing systems for collecting metrics (Prometheus) and visualizing data (Grafana) to provide deep insights into application/infrastructure performance. This role is a specialized subset of data platform engineering, ensuring the environment where data engineers and data scientists run their Spark jobs is robust and cost-efficient.

Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Architecting and managing the platforms where Spark runs, such as Kubernetes clusters, or cloud services like AWS (EKS).
• Packaging Spark workloads (often via Docker/Kubernetes) and integrating them with orchestration systems like Apache Flyte.
• Deploying Infrastructure via Terraform/Ansible
• Troubleshooting and resolving job failures, memory/resource issues, and execution anomalies. This includes optimizing Spark configurations to reduce cloud compute and storage costs.
• Building automation and tools in languages like Python, Java, or Scala, Linux Scripting (Bash) to increase the productivity of development teams.
• Write medium to complex SQL Queries as needed.
• Implementing and maintaining systems for monitoring, logging, and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) to ensure platform stability and reliability.
• Develop and optimize the data catalog platform (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Unity Catalog) for authorization, search, and lineage.
• Automate workflows, monitoring, and incident resolution.
• Collaborate with Data Stewards, Analysts, and Scientists to address data needs and issues.
• Promote best practices and assess emerging technologies.
• Working closely with data engineers, data scientists, and other engineering teams to define requirements, advise on best practices, and ensure successful delivery of data objectives.
• Engaging with open-source communities (likeApache Spark, Delta Lake, or Apache Iceberg) to discuss technical challenges and contribute improvements.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for Kubernetes infrastructure, processes, and procedures. Provide training and support to team members as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience, typically 7 years in a DevOps or Systems Engineering role.
• Expertise in Apache Spark:Deep understanding of Spark architecture, including RDDs, DataFrames, execution hierarchy, lazy evaluation, shuffling, and fault tolerance.
• Proficiency in languages used for Spark development and automation, such as Python, Pyspark and Scala/Java.
• Proficient in Linux Scripting (Bash).
• Proficient in writing SQL.
• Experience in CI/CD tools, Github.
• Experience in setting up and using observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana etc.,
• Strong knowledge on Networking Protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancer etc.,) and hardware components,
• Automation via Terraform/Ansible
• Hands-on experience with on-prem and major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Handson experience setting up IAM, VPC, EC2 etc.,
• Familiarity with related technologies and formats like Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Apache Kafka, Hadoop, and various data storage systems (S3, HDFS, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, Unity Catalog, or similar tools.
• Solid understanding of data lakes and governance.
• Experience setting up, maintaining caching layers like Alluxio.
• Strong analytical skills for debugging complex distributed systems issues.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.

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.

Skills

Adobe Spark, Amazon S3, Databricks Platform, Go Programming Language, Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform (Software)

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Education

Bachelor's DegreeWhile 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.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

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