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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Philadelphia, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Aug 2026

💰 $187,099/yr($113,887/yr – $187,099/yr)

About the role

Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You’ll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

Job Summary

The Comcast Cloud Team is seeking an OpenStack Platform Engineer to help design, test, optimize and deploy our multi-region private cloud environment.  We support thousands of hosts running tens of thousands of virtual machines, so automation skills are highly desired. Bring your expertise in Linux systems engineering, virtualization, networking and troubleshooting along with a desire to solve large scale engineering problems. Security first mentality is a must.

Job Description

The Global Cloud Technologies team provides the digital foundation for our application developers to reach millions of customers across the globe.  Within this group the Private Cloud Platform Engineering team builds products that enable on-premise applications to leverage a Cloud model while minimizing cost to the business and ensuring we meet our security and compliance goals. We work to optimize the availability, performance, capacity utilization and developer experience of our platforms.  We partner with our Architecture team on design, enable our SRE team to operate the platform, and collaborate with our Portal team to enable tenants to consume our services.

Core Duties and Responsibilities 

Collaborate with Architecture on designing new features and capabilities for our OpenStack product

Research software, hardware, and other technologies in support of advancing our private cloud portfolio

Optimize the cost, availability, performance, and developer experience of our OpenStack product.

Validate new OpenStack releases through a combination of automated functional and performance testing.

Integrate evolving security and compliance requirements into new OpenStack product releases.

Continue to evolve and enhance our existing deployment automation capabilities.

Support SRE team for L3 escalations

Required Qualifications:

Advanced Linux knowledge and hands on experience
Expertise in Engineering processes:  deliver a product that meets requirements from a specification, test and validate the product, optimize configuration, and enable production deployment
Systems thinking:  the ability to understand and address complex problems by understanding relationships within an interconnected system rather than just its individual parts
Data-driven decision making:  the capability to define metrics for success and failure, to design systems and processes to test and gather relevant data needed to make a decision, and the willingness to let data guide decision making rather than relying on existing biases
Experience with OpenStack deployments