Senior Data SRE: Reliability Architect for Large-Scale Data

Comcast; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 118,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking an experienced Data SRE to join the Global Operation team. You will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data systems, working closely with data engineers and operation sub-teams to optimize data pipelines and backend platforms.

This role emphasizes monitoring, automation, and incident response, with opportunities to design tooling, improve throughput, and scale systems to support growing data volumes across the

Qualifications

• At least 8+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Data Operations Engineer.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Extensive experience in database management (NoSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Proficiency in automation tools and frameworks (Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker).
• Strong experience with modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Programming skills in Python, Go, Java, or Scala.
• Experience using monitoring and log management tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills with the ability to quickly identify and resolve production issues.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical information clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the stability, reliability, and performance of data platforms.
• Quickly respond to and resolve issues impacting data pipelines or storage layers.
• Develop and maintain automation tools and scripts for deployment, monitoring, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery of data systems.
• Analyze and optimize the performance of data storage, query performance, and data flows to ensure efficient processing of large-scale datasets.
• Reduce latency and improve processing speed.
• Respond quickly to data platform failures and coordinate cross-team efforts to resolve issues.
• Ensure high availability and reliability of data platforms.
• Forecast capacity requirements and plan scaling with data engineering teams.
• Document architecture, configurations, and procedures; share knowledge across the team.

Skills

AWS

Automation

Python

CI/CD

Go

Java

Scala

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking an experienced Data SRE to join the Global Operation team. You will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data systems, working closely with data engineers and operation sub-teams to optimize data pipelines and backend platforms.

This role emphasizes monitoring, automation, and incident response, with opportunities to design tooling, improve throughput, and scale systems to support growing data volumes across the