Operations Engineer - Advertising Tech Systems (Elastic/Elk and Tableau) - REMOTE

Comcast Advertising is driving the TV advertising industry forward, from delivering ads to linear and digital audiences to pioneering the tech that makes it possible. We help brands connect with their audiences on every screen using advanced data, technology, and premium video content. Our media sales division helps local, regional, and national brands reach potential customers through multiscreen TV advertising. Our ad tech division FreeWheel provides comprehensive adtech that makes it easier to buy and sell premium video advertising across all screens, data types, and sales channels.

Job Summary

Responsible for building, managing, operating and continuously improving Systems, Storage, Database and/or Tools Infrastructure that support Comcast Advertising's customer facing applications, back office and provisioning infrastructure in a 24/7 environment. Focuses on building, deploying and stabilizing services, systems and tools. Drives standardization and service-focused instrumentation. Provides subject matter expertise. Resolves break/fix scenarios, engaging broader teams as necessary and partners/leads vendors and regions to achieve continuous improvement. Contributes to command and control related activities focused on restoration of complex outages, communication across Comcast and rapid restoration. Works and directly leads external vendors, third parties and associated agencies when necessary to address issues across the infrastructure. May participate on 24/7 on-call rotation. Works with moderate guidance in own area of knowledge.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Develops solutions for moderate to difficult systems engineering problems. Given enough time, can solve most problems without sufficient documentation readily available. Makes corrections and adds to documentation as necessary to maintain proper procedures and engineering documents.
• Commscope Ad Serving Operating Systems & Disk Management responsibilities (if applicable): recommends disk partition layouts, Operating Systems and hardware platforms. Possesses basic familiarity with Operating System internals and can recommend tuning settings. Troubleshoots and understands kernel and OS-level processes. May manage servers remotely in a distributed environment.
• Platform Management responsibilities (if applicable): Displays understanding of database concepts, availability, performance, usage and configuration. Performs fail-overs, recoveries and restores. Understands database software interaction with OS. Sets up and troubleshoots standard replication. Solutions a wide range of applications, problems, or procedures. Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practical and consistent with the organization's objectives. Participates in logical and physical design reviews.
• Storage and Backup responsibilities (if applicable): Performs backups, recoveries and restores. Understands SAN/HBA software interaction with OS. Sets up and troubleshoots standard storage functions. Understands storage allocation impact on system performance. Conducts comprehensive performance and capacity monitoring, tuning and analysis.
• Networking responsibilities (if applicable): Installs and configures application software on servers following prescribed instructions. Understands basic layer-1/4 switch functionality and can help troubleshoot problems. Uses knowledge of networking and TCP/IP filtering. Correlates application-layer metrics and network device metrics, such as throughput, response time, congestion, dropped messages, queue depth measurement and lost data.
• Application Technologies responsibilities (Web Servers, J2EE, Applications Servers) (if applicable): Takes application specific tracing/debugging. Examines application logs and looks for specific application errors. Checks application metrics (congestion, delay stats, unreachables) for assigned subsystems. Sets up/commission alarms. Uses Opsware and other related tools. Participates fully in subsystem Ops reviews, scaling discussions and subsystem metrics analysis. Installs SSL certificates for all supported web servers.
• Actively participates in problem resolution, using knowledge about systems which are under his or her direct control. Uses a methodical troubleshooting approach.
• Proactively works with development to add additional elements to the application to continually improve monitors. Monitors system health and quality on a daily basis and provides appropriate action. Collaborates with the Service desk/NOC to ensure full understanding of the alarms and remediation steps. Independently sets up data captures, advanced logging/filters.
• Utilizes time management and project management skills to resolve issues in a timely and organized manner, effectively communicating necessary information.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.