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 be part of a World Class Container Platform team that builds and operates highly scalable Kubernetes based container platforms(EKS, OCP, OKE and GKE) at a large scale for Global Technology Solutions at Verizon, a top 20 Fortune 500 company. This individual will have a high level of technical expertise and daily hands-on implementation working in a product team developing services in two week sprints using agile principles. This entitles programming and orchestrating the deployment of feature sets into the Kubernetes CaaS platform along with building Docker containers via a fully automated CI/CD pipeline utilizing AWS, Jenkins Ansible playbooks, AWS, CI/CD tools and process (Jenkins, JIRA, GitLab, ArgoCD), Python, Shell Scripts or any other scripting technologies. You will have autonomous control over day-to-day activities allocated to the team as part of agile development of new services

• Automation and testing of different platform deployments, maintenance and decommissioning

• Full Stack Development

• Participate in POC(Proof of Concept) technical evaluations for new technologies for use in the cloud

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

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

• Three or more years of relevant kubernetes-centric development experience

• Address Jira tickets opened by platform customers

• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following platforms: EKS, Red Hat OpenShift, GKE, AKS, OCI

• RBAC and Pod Security Standards, Quotas, LimitRanges, OPA & Gatekeeper Policies

• Expertise in one or more of the following: Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, Gitlab VSC/Pipelines/Runners, Artifactory

• Proficiency with monitoring/observability tools such as New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, logging solutions (Fluentd/Elastic/Fluentbit/OTEL/ADOT/Splunk) to include creating/customizing metrics and/or logging dashboards

• Infra components like Flux, cert-manager, Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, VPC CNI, Over-provisioning, CoreDNS, metrics-server

• Familiarity with Wireshark, tshark, dumpcap, etc., capturing network traces and performing packet analysis

• Working experience with Service Mesh lifecycle management and configuring, troubleshooting applications deployed on Service Mesh and Service Mesh related issues 

• Demonstrated expertise with the K8S ecosystem (inspecting cluster resources, determining cluster health, identifying potential application issues, etc.)

• Experience creating self-healing automation scripts/pipelines

• Bash scripting experience to include automation scripting (netshoot, RBAC lookup, etc.)

• Demonstrated Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Demonstrated expertise with the K8S security ecosystem (SCC, network policies, RBAC, CVE remediation, CIS benchmarks/hardening, etc.)

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Excellent cross collaboration and communication skills

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

• GitOps CI/CD workflows (ArgoCD, Flux) and Working in Agile Ceremonies Model

• Working experience with security tools such as Sysdig, Crowdstrike, Black Duck, Xray, etc.

• Networking of microservices - Solid understanding of Kubernetes networking and troubleshooting

• Experience with monitoring tools like NewRelic working experience with Kiali, Jaeger Lifecycle management and assisting app teams on how they could leverage these tools for their observability needs

• K8s SRE Tools for Troubleshooting

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator

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.