Engineer III Consultant-Software Development

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

The work you'll be doing as a developer for Verizon's SDN Planning supporting development of deployment automation pipelines and other tooling for the infrastructure. You will be supporting a highly reliable infrastructure running critical network functions. You will be responsible for solving issues that are new and unique, which will provide the opportunity to innovate. This position involves the development of software for Verizon’s Service Provisioning Platforms.

• Serving as developer for Openstack and Kubernetes based Cloud Infrastructure Deployment Automation pipeline

• Interfacing with the engineering and operations team to develop a collaborative process for handoff ensuring supportability and on time delivery.

• Building DevOps tools for CI/CD based deployment of cloud infrastructure.

• Involving in DevOps lifecycle.

• Ability to work with other engineering teams and complex tasks.

What we’re looking for...

You are curious about new technologies and the possibilities they create. You enjoy the challenge of supporting applications while exploring ways to improve upon the technology. You are driven and motivated, with good communication and analytical skills. You’re a sought-after team member that thrives in a dynamic work environment. You have a thirst for working on cutting edge technology with the drive to change the status quo.

You’ll need to have:

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

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Four or more years of experience in developing Ansible, Java and Micro services.

• Two or more years of experience in architecture and designing of cloud native applications.

• Experience in SDN/NFV.

• Knowledge of IP Networking including Virtual Private Cloud, VPN, SDN, DNS, Load-balancing, and Firewalls.

• Experience in OS virtualization and containerization isolation technologies and automation.

• Experience with development in any one programming language.

• Experience in following open-source Kubernetes deployment.

• Experience working with REST, RESTCONF and RPC services and other client/server models

• Building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production quality software systems

• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to analyze and implement enhancements to existing applications/code

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

• Good communications skills with the ability to work with other engineering teams and ability to work independently on complex tasks.

• Experience with open-source explorations/contributions.

• Knowledge of Agile Methodology and Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins, GitLab etc.

• Experience in CNI, Service Mesh, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Kubernetes etc.

• Experience toward telecom OSS stack architecture and development.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience developing solutions with Infrastructure as a Service and Configuration management tools like {Ansible, OpenStack, CNCF tools).

• Knowledge of Telecom Domain including 4G, 5G, Networking, Virtualization, MANO.

• New technology validation and prototyping experience

• SDN platform architecture and development

• Open API (REST/ RESTCONF) and data modeling (YANG) verification and development

• SDN based API interface integration with NETCONF and gRPC/gNMI/gNOI/gRIBI

• Developing SDN applications using Microservice architecture

• SDN ecosystem development and integration

• Experienced in integrating and developing messaging infrastructures (kafka, thrift, proto-buf)

• Database development experience (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, SQL/NoSQL)

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.