Sr Engineer Consultant-DevOps

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What You'll Be Doing...
We are looking for a Senior Engineer Consultant - DevOps who will be responsible for identifying, evaluating, and driving new opportunities through an expert-level comprehension of software design, APIs, and web technologies. You will collaborate with network engineers to build DevOps automation solutions to solve problems and enhance network management.

• Developing automation tools for Network Support and Operations.
• Ensuring the maintainability of all developed solutions and enforcing best practices related to code versioning, testing, and project methodologies.
• Utilizing expert-level knowledge of front-end and server-side application design to ensure tools are highly available, geographically redundant, reliable, and scalable to meet network growth requirements.
• Designing comprehensive testing strategies for all new and existing components to ensure functionality and reliability.
• Fostering a culture of inclusion and teamwork by leading by example and considering the broader team's impact in all actions.
• Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes.
• Utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible for automated provisioning and configuration management.
• Deploying and managing observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog) to enhance monitoring, logging, and performance optimization.
• Ensuring security best practices in DevOps workflows, including container security, secrets management, and compliance automation.
• Developing and managing Jenkins shared libraries to standardize and optimize CI/CD workflows across projects.
• Managing build and release processes, ensuring efficient software delivery pipelines.
• Collaborating with development teams to integrate App DevOps best practices and improve software lifecycle automation.

What We're Looking For...
You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, and observability platforms.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in Jenkins shared libraries, build and release automation, and App DevOps strategies.

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

• Prior experience in development using Python and JavaScript.
• Knowledge of software architecture, programming languages, virtualization, and networking layers.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple work assignments simultaneously.
• Ability to lead technical discussions with diverse industry professionals holding varying technical positions.

If this role sounds 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.