Senior Cloud Engineer Consultant

About Verizon

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...

In this role, you will provide advance-tiered support when joining our Cloud Platform System Operations team. This includes collaborating with tenants and peer support teams and participating in feedback loops with upstream resources that will shape the company direction. While embracing new technologies in an evolving culture, you will support our cloud strategies.

• Communicating with cloud tenants and external customers.
• Troubleshooting failures and productivity impacting events.
• Identifying opportunities to automate the manual tasks including identification of new features required for automation and enhancing the features that exist to reduce the total VNF onboarding time frame.

What we’re looking for...

This position requires independent thinking and a creative mindset with the ability to leverage automation to eliminate manual processes and provide near real-time visibility into system health and performance. The candidate must be able to identify deficiencies and quickly develop solutions to help improve reliability and add operational efficiencies.

You'll Need To Have

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required in Openstack, Kunernetes, Redhat Openshift experience.
• Good hands experience in managing the Data center operations, Infrastructure as a service.
• Experience with Network Transport, SysAdmin responsibilities, and various services supporting OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) such as Advanced Cluster Management (ACM).
• Demonstrated ability to develop clear, well-structured Methods of Procedure (MOP) documents.
• Experience with scrutinizing and contributing to High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documentation via group and individual review.
• Good experience in Stake holder management, HPE/Dell Server provisioning or troubleshooting, cloud management and aware of automation processes.

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

• A degree in engineering, computer science or related discipline.
• Network certifications CCNA, CCP, or equivalent proficiencies.
• Experience working with modern configuration management tools such as Puppet and Ansible.
• Experience with Linux systems administration, preferably in a virtualized environment.
• Strong scripting skills such as Python, Bash, Ruby, and Perl.

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.

Key skills/competency

• Senior Cloud Engineer Consultant
• Openstack
• Kubernetes
• Redhat Openshift
• Data Center Operations
• Infrastructure as a Service
• Linux Systems Administration
• Configuration Management
• Scripting (Python, Bash)
• Stakeholder Management