2 days ago
Base Salary
$187k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with Platform Engineering and Engineering teams on platform and infrastructure technology decisions.
- Develop platform architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, standards, and Architecture Decision Records.
- Guide architecture for cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, serverless technologies, databases, networking, observability, developer tooling, secrets management, and shared engineering services.
- Define platform guardrails, paved roads, reusable patterns, golden paths, and cloud governance strategies.
- Apply FinOps principles to analyze cloud and technology costs, utilization, service consumption, architectural patterns, and total cost of ownership.
- Evaluate build, buy, extend, customize, and deprecate options for platform and infrastructure technologies.
- Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance for modernization initiatives.
- Shape multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud approaches, workload placement guidance, migration strategies, resilience patterns, identity integration, platform APIs, and automation.
- Mentor architects and engineers and contribute to the maturity of the Enterprise Architecture practice.
- Help shape AI and automation practices for engineering workflows, developer experience, platform operations, and architecture.
Requirements
- 15+ years of relevant work experience, or equivalent extensive related professional experience, in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud architecture, or enterprise architecture.
- Bachelor's degree is preferred, with consideration for coursework and experience or extensive related professional experience.
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, observability, databases, networking, infrastructure automation, security-by-design, and CI/CD.
- Experience designing and evolving large-scale cloud, hybrid-cloud, or datacenter-based platforms.
- Strong understanding of resiliency engineering, SLOs, observability, platform security, identity, and secrets management.
- Experience creating architecture roadmaps, standards, and reference architectures and evaluating build-versus-buy decisions.
- Experience applying FinOps principles, including cloud cost analysis, utilization assessment, workload optimization, technology cost modeling, and total cost of ownership analysis.
- Ability to correlate cloud spending with services, architectural patterns, and platform usage and evaluate cost-impacting alternatives.
- Experience leading architecture reviews and translating ambiguous technical challenges into recommendations and execution plans.
- Experience in large-scale distributed environments such as AdTech, FinTech, telecom, media technology, SaaS, or marketplace platforms.
- Ability to communicate with engineers, architects, engineering managers, and senior technology leaders.
- Platform engineering, internal developer platform, AI-enabled engineering tooling, or developer productivity experience is a bonus.
Benefits
- Base pay is supplemented by a bonus for most non-sales positions.
- Comcast provides benefits and personalized support tools for eligible employees.
- The application window is generally 30 days from posting, subject to change based on applicant volume.
- The role may be performed in Virginia, Illinois, or at the Denver campus.
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About Comcast
Comcast is a U.S.-based media and telecommunications company that sells broadband, video, wireless, and voice services to consumers and businesses under the Xfinity and Comcast Business brands. It also owns NBCUniversal (including NBC, Universal Pictures, and Peacock) and Sky, operating TV networks, film studios, and streaming in the U.S. and Europe. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Philadelphia, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq (CMCSA).