Principal Engineer-DevOps

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What you’ll be doing...

We are seeking a Principal Engineer specializing in Software development along with DevOps expertise to lead our infrastructure and platform efforts, driving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence initiatives. In this role, you will:

• Lead and implement large-scale, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems using Kubernetes, AWS, and other cloud technologies.
• Design, build, and improve CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/alerting capabilities, and reliability features.
• Architect and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions with a security-first approach.
• Resolve complex technical issues during the build and deployment of applications across various verticals.
• Analyze production system metrics to drive changes, optimize system utilization, and improve cost efficiency.
• Enhance monitoring and alerting systems to proactively detect issues before customers report them.
• Execute security tools, analyze vulnerabilities/findings, and work towards remediation with Dev/DevOps teams.
• Participate as a key stakeholder in Incident Response (IR) and Disaster Recovery (DR) scenarios.

What we're looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or six or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of software development experience with solid DevOps experience.
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS or other orchestration platforms), including but not limited to Service Types, Ingress, Istio, Blue/Green deployments, CoreDNS, CRD, RBAC, Operators, and Helm.
• Extensive experience with AWS services (EC2, VPC, NAT, IG, Route53, S3, Secret Manager, IAM, ELB/NLB, Lambda, SES, CloudFront, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, PostgreSQL, and RDS.
• Familiarity with messaging systems like Kafka, Redis, ZooKeeper, etcd, and RabbitMQ.
• Expertise in monitoring and logging tools (Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Knowledge of security tools and practices (AWS GuardDuty, CrowdStrike, Tenable, SSL/TLS).
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools, especially Jenkins and Terraform.
• Development experience in C/C++/Java or Go, plus at least one scripting language.
• Strong Linux command-line skills.
• Experience working in production environments with change management, ticketing systems, and emergency patching processes.
• Proven track record of automating large-scale, complex distributed systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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

• AWS or Kubernetes Certifications.
• Experience leading DevOps teams in large-scale, global organizations.
• Contributions to open-source projects or industry publications related to DevOps.

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.