Senior DevOps Engineer

When you join Verizon

Verizon is one of the world’s leading providers of technology and communications services, transforming the way we connect across the globe. We’re a diverse network of people driven by our shared ambition to shape a better future. Here, we have the ability to learn and grow at the speed of technology, and the space to create within every role. Together, we are moving the world forward – and you can too. Dream it. Build it. Do it here.

What you’ll be doing...

You will contribute towards operating and supporting Cloud and DevOps Platform based Products/Services for mission and business-critical applications within Verizon. Under the mentorship of principal applications staff, you will work as a senior team member on various products.

• Provisioning, deploying and configuring AWS and on premises application as per solution architecture using CI/CD automation.
• Identifying improvement opportunities continuously to manage, troubleshoot and automate fixes for AWS and on premises apps.
• Providing inputs to AWS solution architecture and driving implementation of it with the team.
• Monitoring product health daily and after software releases.
• Automating AWS resource provisioning, application deployment and configuration for target state architecture using CI/CD.
• Creating automation to manage and monitor AWS environments for cost overruns, security vulnerabilities, andgovernance requirements.
• Monitoring and managing AWS and on premises applications.
• Troubleshooting production issues and providingautomated fixes, where possible, to reduce manual burden.
• Creating and managing AMI's for AWS and imaging on premises servers.
• Creating and managing AWS Kubernetes clusters.
• Creating and managing centralized logging and monitoring infrastructure on premises and AWS.

Where you’ll be working:

In this hybrid 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 six or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

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

• A degree.
• Experience with SRE practices.
• Experience with Bash and scripting languages such as Python/Perl.
• Experience designing and collaborating with senior design/architects.
• Experience with a high-performance, high-availability environment development.
• Two or more years of experience managing DevOps products (e.g., Gitlab, Jira, Jenkins, Artifactory).
• Four or more years of experience with AWS.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Technology and Cloud certifications.
• AWS certified SysOps Administrator Associate certification.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional certification.
• Kubernetes cluster management experience (installing, configuring, securing, upgrading, scaling, managing, monitoring).
• Operational knowledge of AWS EKS, ECS, Fargate, and Lambda services.
• Experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments.
• Experience with the AWS CLI and SDKs/API tools.
• Experience with IT DevOps tooling and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with system configuration frameworks such as Chef.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Verizon requires new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Verizon provides reasonable accommodations consistent with legal requirements (e.g., for medical, religious, or state law recognized reasons).