Platform Engineer leading lifecycle management of MOM and AMHS systems across Kubernetes clusters in semiconductor industry. Collaborating with internal teams to ensure operational reliability in manufacturing.
About the role
- Principal Platform Engineer at Comcast responsible for Kubernetes infrastructure design and maintenance. Collaborating with development teams for cloud-native strategies and containerized application deployment.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical lead and owner for the Compute platform (On Prem and EKS)
- Responsible for the deployment of containerized applications across a cluster of bare-metal servers using ansible, terraform etc.
- Facilitate automatic scaling of containerized applications based on demand.
- Manage utilization of compute resources such as CPU, memory, and storage across the cluster.
- Implement monitoring solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) to track the health and performance of bare metal clusters and infrastructure components.
- Set up alerting mechanisms to detect and respond to issues proactively.
- Recover from failures by restarting failed containers or reallocating workloads to healthy nodes.
- Work closely with development and engineering teams to establish CI/CD pipelines for automating the deployment and rollout of Kubernetes services.
- Support seamless rolling updates allowing new versions to be deployed gradually while maintaining application availability.
- Identify performance bottlenecks in containerized environments and optimize resource utilization through capacity planning, auto-scaling, and performance tuning.
- Document processes, procedures, and best practices related to the platform operations and share knowledge with team members.
- Partner with SREs to define platform SLAs, uptime targets, resilience benchmarks, and alerting/monitoring.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis, automating recovery workflows and improving platform resiliency.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience, typically 12 years in a DevOps or Systems Engineering role.
- Familiarity with containerized technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.
- Experience implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools and systems.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Shell scripting (Bash).
- Automation scripting with tools such as Ansible playbooks.
- Deploying infrastructure via Terraform
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, IPv4/IPv6 networking, Load Balancing, and protocols.
- Familiarity with CNCF ecosystem tools and emerging trends in platform engineering.
- Experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters.
- Experience upgrading Kubernetes clusters with no to minimal downtime.
- Experience configuring service mesh, network policy controls, and multi-tenancy in Kubernetes.
- Strong Kubernetes, cloud native, containerization expertise in a hybrid-cloud enterprise environment and as a solution architect.
- Strong Spark skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical information.
- Strong written communication skills are essential, as well as the ability to create clear and informative documentation.
- Ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
- Flexibility to work off-hours for on-call duties.
- Relevant certifications, such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Benefits
- Best-in-class Benefits
- Expert guidance and always-on tools personalized to meet support needs
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