Princ Engr-Cloud

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The Verizon Cloud Platform (VCP) is a private cloud infrastructure that supports Verizon's Network Functions across 60 data centers in the United States. At the core of VCP is WebScale, which is Verizon's Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform built on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and Kubernetes. This platform enables the automated deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications across our network.

As a Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) on the VCP Core WebScale Operations team, you will play a vital role in building, upgrading, and maintaining this mission-critical platform around the clock. WebScale is currently experiencing rapid growth to support 5G Core and other essential applications, and your role will be central to this expansion.

What you’ll be doing...

The Principal Cloud Platform Engineer is a senior-level position within our practice. You will perform tasks that are required to maintain and advance our cloud environment. This includes interfacing with tenants and peer support teams.

In this role, the candidate will be responsible for leading the implementation of feature designs and providing feedback to engineering on solutions to improve reliability and performance. The candidate will partner with key stakeholders to ensure new releases and/or fixes are swiftly tested and rolled out with no negative impact to customers. The candidate will have the opportunity to envision and operationalize system and network variables to benchmark the platform and to ensure reliability and performance metrics are met.  

• Provide 24x7 operational support for WebScale cloud infrastructure and associated applications

• Respond to and resolve customer-impacting events with urgency and precision

• Execute nighttime maintenance windows and platform upgrades

• Support the expansion of WebScale to meet 5G Core and application growth demands

• Modernize VCP workflows through strategic, AI-driven initiatives that improve operational efficiency and reduce toil

• Design and build greenfield Flex Clusters, expanding platform capacity to meet evolving network demands

• Drive continuous improvements to upgrade agility and customer-impacting resiliency across the platform

• Collaborate cross-functionally to drive platform stability, reliability, and performance

• Monitoring platform efficiencies, logging, and alarming while focusing on operational discipline and security best practices.

• Maintaining window activities, on-call duties and escalations.

• Providing advanced support for the Verizon Cloud Platform. Responsible for the WebScale environment, the backend storage, and the underlying network infrastructure.

• Troubleshooting failures and productivity-impacting events.

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.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Hands-on experience with OpenShift and Kubernetes (K8S).

• Deep expertise in Envoy and Istio (WebScale's Service Mesh and Service Proxy).

• Strong understanding of containerized applications and virtualized infrastructure.

• Experience with SR-IOV, DPDK, and Kubernetes Operators.

• Proficiency in Ansible and Python - Familiarity with 5G Core architecture.

• Experience with Prompt Engineering and AI workflow integration.

• Background in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Science/Analysis.

• Experience with Helm and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux).

• Proficiency in Linux/RHEL system administration.

• Experience with observability and monitoring tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager).

• Understanding of cloud networking concepts including BGP, VLANs, and overlay networks.

• Experience with log aggregation and analysis platforms (Splunk, EFK stack).

• Knowledge of Kubernetes RBAC, OPA/Gatekeeper, and platform security hardening.

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

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.

• Five or more years of UNIX/Linux experience.

• CCNA/CCNP certified or equivalent training/experience.

• Knowledge of IP network services and protocols.

• Experience in reading and writing Shell, Python, Go, or other variations of scripting.

• Experience working with Container related network functions (Kubernetes).

• Knowledge of configuration management and orchestration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Salt).

• Experience with networking concepts and protocols (including SDN, NFV).

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform, GitLab).

• Working knowledge of bare metal provisioning and cluster lifecycle management.

• Familiarity with distributed storage platforms (Ceph, Rook).

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.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

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

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

The annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $120,500.00 - $231,000.00.