When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

We engineer, build, and operate a global private cloud infrastructure powered by Openstack, Kubernetes, and NetApp that supports applications used for numerous internal and external Verizon networks. In this role you will Independently lead requirements, analysis, design and development effort for Verizon's Automation platform for managing End-to-End Onboarding Lifecycle for Virtual Network Functions/Cloud-Native Network Functions as well as Verizon's configuration automation platform for managing manual task and configuration automations pre/post deployments.

• Support the Verizon Cloud infrastructure for any issue that occurs in Openstack , network and infrastrcture related issues which includes troubleshooting in hardware related issues.

• Working directly with Virtualized Network Function and other application teams to evaluate their cloud hosting requirements and provide them with necessary resources.

• Evaluating forecasts and tenant onboarding requests for maximizing the efficient use of Verizon Cloud Platform infrastructure and life cycle management.

• Collecting data related to system problems, analyzing it, and developing resolutions.

• Maintaining functional and technical requirements, analyzing hardware/software features and improvements, and understanding system architectures, system operations, end-to-end designs, and device-system interactions.

• Interpreting industry standards to ensure the integrity of our platform engineering designs and vetting all methods of procedures (MOPs) to ensure technical standards are met.

• Assisting in planning, designing, equipment selection, staging, testing, and integration of new system hardware, software, and virtualized functions of the cloud.

• Partnering with various HQ departments in technology trials, interoperability tests, run first office applications.

• Participating in vendor evaluations, and performing evaluations and quality control analysis.

• Coordinating multiple large-scale, complex platforms and providing third-tier support functions.

What we’re looking for...

You’re a technical specialist with solid credentials and a remarkable ability to find, break down, and solve problems. You work effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, and you’re phenomenal at partnering with the groups you support. You constantly look for ways to make a great network design better, and you’re a natural mentor to junior engineers looking to develop their technical skills.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience, preferable in computer or telecom background

• Four or more years of relevant work experience with Redhat Openstack

• Wireless industry experience.

• Experience with Red Hat Linux, virtualization (KVM), Kubernetes, OpenShift

• Experience with cloud infrastructure , design and manage

• Experience with automation using Python, bash, JSON, YAML, REST, or Ansible.

• Schedule Flexibility as there will be work to be performed off hours.

• Must have support operation experience in handling tickets and resolve issues

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

• Experience with Management and Orchestration (NFVi or Resource Orchestration).

• Experience with OpenStack (RHEL Director) and OpenStack services (Horizon, Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Ceilometer, Glance, Heat, Cinder/Swift, or Ceph).

• Project/vendor management experience.

• Experience with QCOW2 or RAW images.

• Experience with TCP/IP, Routing and OSI 7-layer protocol.

• Experience with Server Load Balancing (SLB).

• Experience with IMS and/or VoLTE.

• Experience with network automation and deployment methods, managing data center elements, hardware, software, and power requirements, and coordinating vendors.

Additional roles

* Should be flexible to work in shifts on need basis such as 1week bi monthly

* Meet with clients both internally and externally to discuss the requirements of their cloud computer needs, developing a list of requirements and offering recommendations and advising clients based on their knowledge of existing systems.
* Evaluate and develop the various cloud-based systems and platforms, determining the software specifications and establishing the new environment within the company.
* Migrate or integrate existing systems into the new cloud-based environment, determining the process of decommissioning the old systems while maintaining any required services.
* Performing tests, proof of concepts, and FOAs validate the functionality of the software components and certify its use in production.
* Install, configure, and maintain the cloud-based systems, enhancing the overall performance and determining methods for automating the processes.

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.

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.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.