Engineer II-Cloud

Job Description

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 V Team Life.

What you’ll be doing...

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

• Utilizing knowledge to provision, deploy and configure AWS application as per solution architecture using CI/CD automation.

• Managing, troubleshooting and automating fixes for AWS apps and working on the activities to support it.

• Monitoring various sources to make sure batch jobs and file feeds are processed and dependency checks completed.

• Defining and building CI/CD pipeline for application.

• Troubleshooting production issues and providing automated fixes, where possible, to reduce manual burden.

What we’re looking for...

You are curious about new technologies and the possibilities they create. You are driven and motivated to thrive in a dynamic work environment with different stakeholders/architects/business clients across large enterprise systems. You are good at analyzing business requirements and translating them into system requirements using the lens of customer experience. You are great at working in teams and can use your interpersonal skills to get your point across.

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or one or more years of work experience.

• Two or more years of relevant work experience in Linux platform.

• Good Hands-on Experience in Python , Ansible & AWS Cloud.

• Knowledge of Agile & Scrum.

• Experience managing Web Servers and App Servers running on Linux with administration experience.

• Experience developing code in at least one high-level programming language.

• Experience working on IT DevOps tooling and CI/CD practices.

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

• Experience with a high-performance, high-availability environment development.

• Experience managing DevOps products like, Gitlab, Jira, Jenkins, Artifactory etc.

• Administrative experience in Agile tools like Jira Confluence BitBucket would be additional advantage

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

• Technology & Cloud certification.

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate certification.

• Knowledge of AWS EKS, ECS, Fargate and Lambda services.

• One year or more years of experience as a systems administrator in a systems operations role.

• Exposure to Observability tools like Newrelic, Dynatrace, Catchpoint, Grafana, Prometheus would be added advantage

• Understanding of provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments.

• Experience with the AWS CLI and SDKs/API tools.

• Understanding of network technologies and concepts as they relate to AWS.

• Understanding of security concepts with hands-on experience in implementing security controls and compliance requirements.

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

Diversity and Inclusion

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.