Senior OpenStack Cloud Platform Engineer

Blueface Ltd; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 114,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Comcast is seeking an OpenStack Platform Engineer to design, test, and deploy a multi-region private cloud. You will work on Linux systems, virtualization, networking, and troubleshooting with a strong security mindset.

The role supports thousands of hosts and requires collaboration across architecture, SRE, and portal teams. The ideal candidate will have OpenStack deployment experience, strong scripting skills (Python/Go), and a data-driven approach to performance and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Advanced Linux knowledge required.
• Engineering processes: deliver, test, validate, optimize, deploy.
• Systems thinking to address complex, interconnected systems.
• Data-driven decision making with defined metrics.
• Experience with OpenStack deployments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Architecture on designing new features for OpenStack.
• Research software/hardware to advance private cloud portfolio.
• Optimize cost, availability, performance and developer experience of OpenStack.
• Validate new OpenStack releases with automated tests.
• Integrate security/compliance into new releases.
• Evolve deployment automation and support L3 escalations for SRE.

Skills

Advanced Linux knowledge

Engineering processes

Systems thinking

Data-driven decision making

OpenStack deployments

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Python

GoLang

Ansible

Git

CI/CD tools

Ceph storage

Job description

Comcast is seeking an OpenStack Platform Engineer to design, test, and deploy a multi-region private cloud. You will work on Linux systems, virtualization, networking, and troubleshooting with a strong security mindset.

The role supports thousands of hosts and requires collaboration across architecture, SRE, and portal teams. The ideal candidate will have OpenStack deployment experience, strong scripting skills (Python/Go), and a data-driven approach to performance and cost optimization.