
Site Reliability Engineer 3 - Reston, VA - Hybrid - Freewheel
Reston, VA · HybridFull-time$109–164K/yrPosted 1w agoStill listed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Site Reliability Engineer will own cloud infrastructure, system reliability, and observability for Freewheel’s BuyerCloud and Revenue Science teams. These teams operate applications, servers, and containers across multiple regions using AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code. The role designs infrastructure and tooling, supports automation and observability, participates in on-call rotations, and serves as an escalation contact for service incidents.
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Full job description
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 We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, system reliability, and observability for the Freewheel BuyerCloud and Revenue Science teams.
Freewheel BuyerCloud (formerly Beeswax) is a massive-scale, highly available, user-friendly programmatic demand-side bidding platform. Revenue Science builds the company's machine learning and AI solutions. Together, these teams run thousands of applications, servers, and containers across multiple regions worldwide — built on AWS and Kubernetes and managed entirely through Infrastructure-as-Code. Job Description
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Design and build infrastructure solutions and tooling to provide high scalability, reliability, and sub-second performance levels using industry best practices.
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Writing code and scripts to support Infrastructure as code (IaC), configuration management, and automated incident resolution.
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Support and extend the observability stack to capture and alert on any issues.
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Participate in on-call rotations and be an escalation contact for service incidents.
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Write system documentation, playbooks, and other instruction manuals.
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Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications and Skills
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Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
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Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
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At least three (3) years of administration experience with Linux, AWS, and Kubernetes
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At least three (3) years of experience in configuration management using Cloud Formation, Terraform, and Ansible or similar.
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At least three (3) years of experience coding in higher-level languages, such as Python, Java, or C++
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Strong problem-solving skills
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Strong verbal / written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
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Certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Skills DevOps, Kubernetes, Python (Programming Language)
Compensation Virginia Pay Range: $109,178.41 - $163,767.61
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience. Certifications (if applicable)
Relevant Work Experience 5-7 Years
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.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,376 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$109–164K/yr
- Virginia median$119–205K/yr93 salary ranges
- US median$136–228K/yr1,974 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $136K, is 18% below the Virginia median midpoint ($167K) — in the lowest quarter of Site Reliability Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 117 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs in Virginia and 2,376 across the US. 20% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Oracle12 open
- Akamai Technologies, Inc.8 open
- Workday7 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Site Reliability Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,975 postings).
- Education
- 688 of the 2,376 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs (29%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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