Engr Iii-security Engrg

**When you join Verizon**:
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**What you’ll be doing...**

The Senior Security Engineer part of the Verizon Platform Security Engineering team will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the security posture of our cloud infrastructure and platforms. You will work closely with engineering, operations, and security teams to ensure that our systems are secure, compliant, and resilient.
- Being proficient with Verizon corporate api security standards and best practices
- Administering SaaS based API security solution (Apigee, 42Crunch, ReadyAPI, etc.) to support following activities
- Managing user administration.
- Focusing on Customer-service.
- Producing reports, scorecards and related metrics to stakeholders
- Managing vendor(s) to meet the needs of the business - drive future enhancements
- Developing and maintaining internal documentation
- Working with various cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP
- Writing CI/CD pipelines and monitoring scripts
- Monitoring AWS infrastructure health, performance
- Supporting customers on user questions, concerns, and requests via various channels
- Handling customer support calls, security risk metric communications in various forum and on-call support when required
- Working closely with API Management, Application Security and Business units to support their technical guidance
- Identifying threats and opportunities and reporting security risk findings to the stakeholders
- Providing technical mentoring and knowledge transfer to members of the team
- Performing all other duties as assigned
- Willing to work in the third shift

**What we’re looking for...**

**You’ll need to have**:

- Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience
- Familiarity with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP) and their security offerings is essential
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools, such as CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and containerization.
- Strong understanding of security principles and best practices
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

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

- Professional certifications include AWS Associate or Professional certification or willingness to obtain within 12 months of hire.
- Experience with scripting languages, such as Python or Bash, for automation and troubleshooting.
- Maintain accurate records of customer interactions and solutions in support ticketing system
- Create user guides, FAQs, and other documentation to assist users
- Cloud Computing
- Basic awareness cloud services such as IAM, compute (i.e. EC2), storage (volume/object), networking (VPC, VCN. Load Balancers, Security Groups/List), EKS.
- DevOps
- Familiarity with Git Lab, Jenkins, Ansible, JIRA, Confluence
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools
- Experience in agile development methodologies
- Hands on experience with Looker

**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.