Princ Engr-cloud

**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...**:
**The Verizon Cloud Engineering & Enablement team seeks an experienced, high-performing cloud inrfastructure and automation engineer. The senior cloud Architect is critical in designing automation to migrate workloads into the Public Clouds. We seek an experienced Cloud Architect who will help grow our cloud capabilities by strategizing, defining, architecting, and leading modern cloud solutions. This individual will be a tenacious thought leader able to scope projects, ensure delivery, and establish and maintain strong relationships with all Verizon stakeholders.**:
**We seek an experienced, hands-on Sr. Cloud Architect to make intuitive, high-level decisions to improve the business experience. You will see the “big picture” and create architectural approaches for automation design and implementation. You will be responsible for the technical direction of projects, working with the Verizon security team to enable new managed services and meet Verizon security guidelines.**:

- Architecting cloud-native, hybrid, or multi-cloud solutions to meet the client’s needs.
- Developing architectural artifacts to lead the delivery of a successful implementation.
- Defining technical direction and roadmap for Cloud migrations and managing the implementation and technical solutions.
- Collaborating with Security, Governance, Cloud Engineering groups, and Development teams to implement solutions adhering architectural best practices.
- Leading technical discussions and knowledge sharing with clients through the development and delivery of impactful workshops and presentations on cloud solutions.”
- Engaging with technical stakeholders of the client and third parties to understand how their systems work
- Providing mentorship and coaching to technical team members
- Providing technical leadership to evolve, mature, and migrate On-Prem apps to Cloud.
- Owning the ongoing design, implementation, and management of the Cloud Infrastructure environment and testing and implementing new services as they become available in the AWS, OCI, GCP, and Azure environments.
- Creating documentation to aid in knowledge management efforts within cloud services and provide training.
- Documenting and creating playbooks for administrative/support actions to be used by Production Support.
- Representing Verizon's brand at technical conferences by providing presentations, lectures and participating in group discussions.
- Identifying and presenting best practices and recommendations for cost optimization and cloud efficiency across the all cloud platform to the business.
- Reviewing vWAF requests received from Application teams
- Managing Ransomware, Rightsizing, and Rehydration automation support
- Acting as a liaison between the US-based Cloud Architecture and Governance (CAG) team and the larger VZI development community.

**What we’re looking for...**:
Excellent written and verbal communication skills: Communicating effectively with end-users, business owners, developers, managers, and systems engineers. Strong commitment to customer service and service enablement. Ability to multitask and prioritize work requirements aligned with senior leadership direction. Also, slide deck preparation and presentation skills for the executives

This hybrid role will have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days as set by the manager.

**You’ll need to have**:

- Bachelor’s degree or six or more years of experience.
- AWS Certified Associate Solutions Architect and/or GCP-certified associate architect.
- Eight or more years of System Admin, Software development, Design Architecture, and/or implementation experience.
- Strong hands-on knowledge in core managed Services (e.g., IAM, Service Accounts & Keys, Encryption Keys, Object Storage, Logging, Monitoring, Pub/Sub, Functions)
- Strong hands-on knowledge in core GCP Services (e.g., IAM & Admin, Encryption Keys, GCS, GCE, Logging, Monitoring, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, Cloud SQL)
- Knowledge of GCP services - GCP Big Data Infrastructure and Data Analytics services like Dataflow, Dataproc, Data Fusion, Composer, Big Query, GKE
- Good understanding of different programming languages, e.g., scripting using Python or Bash to automate the build, test, package, and deployment of function(s) and configuration.
- Strong