• Driving engineering solutions for different components of a container platform like, Logging, Monitoring, Security and SRE practices

• Providing technical guidance to the product engineering team, covering architecture, design, development, and end-user support.

• Evaluating new services and solutions for their potential value within Verizon.

• Analyzing new product opportunities and technologies, recommending enhancements for the platform.

• Conducting Proof of Concept (POC) technical evaluations for new technologies for both cloud and on-premise environments.

• Partnering with peers in the industry and bench mark architecture, designs and coding standards.

• Having focused attention on security. Infuse and adopt security through a design approach.

• Adopting Copilot tools to drive efficiencies into SDLC processes and drive increased productivity of the teams.

• Infusing and imbibing the culture of AI Driven solutions for container orchestration and SDLC process streamlining.

What we’re looking for...
You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree with 6 or more years experience

• Experience in platform automation using Terraform, Ansible playbooks, CI/CD tools and processes (Jenkins, JIRA, GitLab), Python, Shell Scripts, or other scripting technologies.

• Experience in building applications with Docker & Kubernetes or managing Kubernetes platforms at an enterprise level.

• Proficiency in container NSA and Openshift Virtualization (KubeVirt) and Nutanix.

• Expertise in Anthos, Istio/Service Mesh, and Helm.

• Experience in integrating OKE with OCI services.

• Experience in building cloud-native applications or migrating legacy applications to cloud platforms (GCP, OCI, or AWS).

• Knowledge in Open Policy Agent, ArgoCD, OTel, and other cloud-native projects/tools.

• Experience with container security scanning products.

• Experience in building high-performance container platforms, products, or applications that are scalable and resilient across hybrid container platforms (Openshift, OKE, GKE, and Cloud-Native K8s).

• Debugging skills and a proclivity for collaborating with stakeholders to deliver automated platform services on multi-cloud container platforms.

• Experience in designing large-scale clusters in EKS.

• Knowledge of DevOps tools and processes.

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

• Experience in Openshift, CKA, CKS, GCP, OCI and AWS certifications are highly desirable.

• Experience in fully managed end to end deployment of ArgoCD as a platform 

• Experience in full fledged OKE / GKE GitOps orchestration. 

• Knowledge in Container Security & Governance 

• Exposure to industry best practices observability postures pertaining to multi cloud container platform

• Exposure to more than 1 CI/CD tools like Github, Gitlab, ArgoCD, CloudBees Jenkins

• Experience to demonstrate CI/CD strategy and create vision statements for large container ecosystems with multi cloud architecture

• Experience in AI Infusions and Gen AI implementations on container ecosystems to enhance developer experience and reduce manual toil

• Excellent Communication skills