SRE II: Cloud Reliability & Observability Engineer

Comcast; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 84,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

Comcast's FreeWheel unit seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, reliability, and observability for BuyerCloud and Revenue Science teams. Built on AWS and Kubernetes, this role focuses on scalable, highly available systems across regions.

The engineer will implement IaC, automate incident resolution, extend the observability stack, and participate in on-call rotations while documenting playbooks and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Professional experience administering Linux, cloud, and containers.
• Professional experience coding in higher-level languages, such as Python, Java, or C++.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong verbal / written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build infrastructure and tooling to provide high scalability, reliability, and sub-second performance levels using industry best practices.
• Writing code and scripts to support Infrastructure as code (IaC), configuration management, and automated incident resolution.
• Support and extend the observability stack to capture and alert on any system issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations and be an escalation contact for service incidents.
• Writing systems documentation, troubleshooting playbooks, and other instruction manuals.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Linux

Cloud

Containers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Comcast's FreeWheel unit seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, reliability, and observability for BuyerCloud and Revenue Science teams. Built on AWS and Kubernetes, this role focuses on scalable, highly available systems across regions.

The engineer will implement IaC, automate incident resolution, extend the observability stack, and participate in on-call rotations while documenting playbooks and procedures.