Senior OpenStack Cloud Platform Engineer

Comcast; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 114,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Comcast is seeking an OpenStack Platform Engineer to design, test, optimize, and deploy a multi-region private cloud. You will work on Linux systems, virtualization, networking, and automation to support thousands of hosts and tens of thousands of VMs.

Security-first mindset is essential. You will collaborate with Architecture, SRE, and Portal teams to improve availability, performance, and developer experience while ensuring compliance and cost control.

Qualifications

• Advanced Linux knowledge with hands-on experience.
• Experience delivering a product from design to production.
• Systems thinking to tackle complex problems in an interconnected system.
• Data-driven decision making with metrics and data guidance.
• Experience with OpenStack deployments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Architecture to design new OpenStack features.
• Research hardware, software and technologies to advance the private cloud portfolio.
• Optimize cost, availability, performance and developer experience.
• Validate new OpenStack releases via automated testing.
• Integrate security and compliance in releases.
• Enhance deployment automation and support the SRE team.

Skills

OpenStack

Linux

Python

Ansible

Virtualization

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Ceph storage

APIs & SDKs

Job description

Comcast is seeking an OpenStack Platform Engineer to design, test, optimize, and deploy a multi-region private cloud. You will work on Linux systems, virtualization, networking, and automation to support thousands of hosts and tens of thousands of VMs.

Security-first mindset is essential. You will collaborate with Architecture, SRE, and Portal teams to improve availability, performance, and developer experience while ensuring compliance and cost control.