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...

Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program Cohort 1-2025.

As the CSP Security Architect, you will be responsible for designing and developing strategies for implementing a Multi-Cloud Hybrid Platform for telecom products and solutions to meet Public Sector and Enterprise requirements. This includes gathering requirements, assessing strategies to meet the North Star Cloud architecture and contractual obligations with respect to cybersecurity compliance for Federal customers.

You will work with cross-functional teams of highly skilled individuals employing industry best practices to leverage cloud technology, cybersecurity standards for mobile networks such as 5G, along with IoT, SDWAN, MEC, Unified Comms, and others.

You will architect compliance-by-design and secure solutions to meet federal and state cybersecurity mandates and regulations to meet Verizon’s business objectives. The role, along with the product owners and Cyber Compliance Solutions team members, will augment Verizon products to meet the needs in key practices and make consumption of compliance requirements easy and drive cost efficiency in product business cases.

• Integrating secure-by-design best practices and Compliance standards into CSP environments to meet a common ATO goal for products and solutions.

• Implementing the strategy and requirements for a “Golden Boundary” linking critical functions (OSS, BSS, Product, etc.) together with Interconnect Service Agreements.

• Driving detailed compliance requirements for products to make consumption easy for product owners and their delivery partners.

• Developing strategies for product modernization to meet CSP security requirements and standards.

• Develop templated requirements and reference architecture to supplement functional product (network, platforms, and apps) requirements into an IRL.

• Driving the Cyber Compliance Solutions Strategy with CISO and the other Verizon Teams.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program Cohort 1-2025.

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

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience in designing and/or evaluating/assessing Multi Cloud and Hybrid Architecture.

• Experience in Compliant cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Azure, OCI, Terraform, Kubernetes) specific to the NIST guidelines.

• Experience in 2 or more of the following technologies/frameworks: Kubernetes, AWS Govcloud, Azure Government, OCI, Ansible, Nessus, Terraform, RedHat OpenShift, Cloud Native Solutions, NIST, FedRAMP, TIC3.0, ZeroTrust Frameworks.

• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

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

• A degree.

• AWS Certificate for Security/Solutions Architect/Cloud Practitioner.

• ISACA CSX-P,ISC2 CISSP/CCSP certifications.

• Knowledge of ServiceNow.

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 work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our employees’ differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. 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.

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 benefits, short term incentives, 401(k) Savings Plan, stock incentive programs, paid time off, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances. If you are hired into a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Washington or Washington, D.C. work location, the compensation range for this position is between $0.00 and $0.00 annually based on a full-time schedule. 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.