Cloud Engineer

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What you’ll be doing...

The Verizon Cloud Engineering & Enablement team is looking for a high-performing cloud automation engineer. The Cloud Engineer II plays a critical role in designing automation for the migration of workloads into the Public Clouds (AWS, OCI, GCP, AZURE). We are looking for a motivated Cloud Platform Engineer that will help grow our cloud capabilities by defining, architecting, and supporting modern cloud solutions. You will be responsible for enabling new services in the public cloud, building new automated CI/CD tools and processes for infrastructure and application code deployments across multiple clouds, stability and continuous improvements of the core orchestration platform.

• Develop and coordinate cloud architecture across diverse areas including application development, identity and access management, network and data management, and security.
• Architect cloud-native, hybrid, and multi-cloud solutions to meet clients’ needs.
• Engage with technical stakeholders and third parties to understand how their systems work.
• Collaborating with Security, Governance, Cloud engineering groups, and development teams to implement solutions across various lines of business.
• Responsible for the management and improvement of existing tools, and establishing new automation. This may include integrating tools with other development technology.
• Owning the ongoing design, implementation, and management of the Public Clouds environment, testing, and implementation of new services as they become available.
• Building, upgrading, and maintaining the performance of the API and CLI layer between tools and the Cloud console.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues within our environment.
• Create documentation to aid in knowledge management efforts within cloud services and provide training.

This role will be based out of one of the locations listed in the posting. In this role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or one or more years of work experience.
• Programming experience with Python, NodeJs, or Perl.
• Cloud engineering experience with Public Cloud, working experience with APIs, CLI/SDK, CloudFormation, ARM, and/or Terraform.
• Experience developing automated code and infrastructure deployment pipelines using pipeline as code (Jenkins and Ansible) scripts and Infrastructure as Code templates.
• Experience with technical troubleshooting as well as partnering with vendors and other organizations to drive root cause analysis and solve complex technical problems.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer science, Math, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of best practices for data security, scalability, high availability, networking, load balancing, cost efficiencies in cloud.
• Strong understanding of governance frameworks and services in Public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP.
• Proficient with SQL queries, database functions and procedures.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Strong analytical, technical, and organizational skills and is highly self-motivated, having a customer-first attitude.
• UI development experience using the ReactJS and/or experience other web application frameworks such as ExpressJS, Django, or Flask.
• Experience with container platforms and container technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of networking (e.g., DNS services, TCP, load-balancers, routing, firewalls) to be leveraged for designs and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of infrastructure (e.g., firewalls, load balancers, hypervisor, storage, monitoring, security) and have experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution.
• Experience with security best practices and use of firewalls, encryption, incident response, encryption at REST & In-Transit Encryption, SSL Cert configuration at the Load balancer or server level.
• Public Cloud Certifications - AWS Solutions Architect Associate or similar.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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