Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Data- FreeWheel

Data SRE Opportunity

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we're making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

FreeWheel is seeking an experienced Data SRE to join the FreeWheel Data SRE team. As a member of the Global Operation team, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data systems. Working closely with data engineers and other operation sub-teams, you will manage our data infrastructure, optimize system reliability, automate daily operations, and resolve technical issues that impact our data pipelines and backend data platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

System Monitoring and Optimization

Automation and Tool Development

Performance Optimization

Incident Response and Troubleshooting

Capacity Planning and Scaling

Documentation and Knowledge Sharing

Security and Compliance

Cross-Team Collaboration

Qualifications

At least 10+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps, or Data Operations Engineer.

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Familiarity with modern data architectures and technologies including Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, HDFS, and AWS S3.

Extensive experience in database management including NoSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.

Programming skills in Python, Go, Java, or Scala.

Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar tools.

Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.

Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Additional Preferred Skills

Experience with Aerospike, Kafka, Snowflake, and other big data technologies.

Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes.

Experience designing and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.

Experience in data quality management, data governance, or ETL pipelines.

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.