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 sound 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

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelors degree or two or more years of experience.

• Address Jira tickets opened by platform customers

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

• Expertise of SDLC and Agile Development

• Design, develop and implement scalable React/Node based applications (Full stack developer)

• Experience with development with HTTP/RESTful APIs, Microservices

• Experience with Serverless Lambda Development, AWS Event Bridge, AWS Step Functions, DynamoDB, Python, RDBMS, NoSQL, etc.

• Experience with OWASP rules and mitigating security vulnerabilities using security tools like Fortify, Sonarqube, etc.

• Familiarity integrating with existing web application portals and backend development experience with languages to include Golang (preferred), Spring Boot, and Python.

• Experience with GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Helm, Terraform, Artifactory

• Development of K8S tools/components which may include standalone utilities/plugins, cert-manager plugins, etc.

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

• Experience with Terraform and/or Ansible

• Experience with Bash scripting experience

• Effective code review, quality, performance tuning experience, Test Driven Development.

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

• 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 Security Specialist (CKS)

• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator

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.