Senior Engineer - Openstack Solutions Architect

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 #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

We engineer, build, and operate a global private cloud infrastructure powered by Openstack, Kubernetes, and NetApp that supports applications used for numerous internal and external Verizon networks. In this role you will Independently lead requirements, analysis, design and development effort for Verizon's Automation platform for managing End-to-End Onboarding Lifecycle for Virtual Network Functions/Cloud-Native Network Functions as well as Verizon's configuration automation platform for managing manual task and configuration automations pre/post deployments.

• Working directly with Virtualized Network Function and other application teams to evaluate their cloud hosting requirements and provide them with necessary resources.

• Evaluating forecasts and tenant onboarding requests for maximizing the efficient use of Verizon Cloud Platform infrastructure and life cycle management.

• Collecting data related to system problems, analyzing it, and developing resolutions.

• Maintaining functional and technical requirements, analyzing hardware/software features and improvements, and understanding system architectures, system operations, end-to-end designs, and device-system interactions.

• Interpreting industry standards to ensure the integrity of our platform engineering designs and vetting all methods of procedures (MOPs) to ensure technical standards are met.

• Assisting in planning, designing, equipment selection, staging, testing, and integration of new system hardware, software, and virtualized functions of the cloud.

• Partnering with various HQ departments in technology trials, interoperability tests, run first office applications.

• Participating in vendor evaluations, and performing evaluations and quality control analysis.

• Coordinating multiple large-scale, complex platforms and providing third-tier support functions.

What we’re looking for...

You’re a technical specialist with solid credentials and a remarkable ability to find, break down, and solve problems. You work effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, and you’re phenomenal at partnering with the groups you support. You constantly look for ways to make a great network design better, and you’re a natural mentor to junior engineers looking to develop their technical skills.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience with Openstack.

• Wireless industry experience.

• Experience with Red Hat Linux, virtualization (KVM), Kubernetes, OpenShift

• Experience with cloud architecture.

• Experience with Python, bash, JSON, YAML, REST, or Ansible.

• Schedule Flexibility as there will be work to be performed off hours.

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

• A degree in computer science or electrical engineering.

• Experience with Management and Orchestration (NFVi or Resource Orchestration).

• Experience with OpenStack (RHEL Director) and OpenStack services (Horizon, Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Ceilometer, Glance, Heat, Cinder/Swift, or Ceph).

• Project/vendor management experience.

• Experience with QCOW2 or RAW images.

• Experience with TCP/IP, Routing and OSI 7-layer protocol.

• Experience with Server Load Balancing (SLB).

• Experience with IMS and/or VoLTE.

• Experience with network automation and deployment methods, managing data center elements, hardware, software, and power requirements, and coordinating vendors.

If Verizon and this role sound 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.