Engineer II- Cloud

Job Description

What youll be doing You will be part of the Network Planning group in GNT organization supporting development of deployment automation pipelines and other tooling for the Verizon Cloud Platform. You will be supporting a highly reliable infrastructure running critical network functions. You will be responsible for solving issues that are new and unique, which will provide the opportunity to innovate. You will have a high level of technical expertise and daily hands-on implementation working in a planning team designing and developing automation. This entitles programming and orchestrating the deployment of feature sets into the Kubernetes CaaS platform along with building containers via a fully automated CI/CD pipeline utilizing Ansible playbooks, Python and CI/CD tools and process like JIRA, GitLab, ArgoCD, or any other scripting technologies. Leveraging monitoring tools such as Redfish, Splunk, and Grafana to monitor system health, detect issues, and proactively resolve them. Design and configure alerts to ensure timely responses to critical events. Working with the development and Operations teams to design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD for efficient, automated deployment of applications and infrastructure. Implementing security best practices for cloud and containerized services and ensure adherence to security protocols. Configure IAM roles, VPC security, encryption, and compliance policies. Continuously optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Use tools and third-party solutions to analyze usage patterns and recommend cost-saving strategies. Working closely with the engineering and operations teams to design and implement cloud-based solutions. Maintaining detailed documentation of cloud architecture and platform configurations and regularly provide status reports and performance metrics. What were looking for... Youll need to have: Bachelors degree or one or more year of work experience. Experience years in Kubernetes administration Hands-on experience with one or more of the following platforms: EKS, Red Hat OpenShift, GKE, AKS, OCI GitOps CI/CD workflows (ArgoCD, Flux) and Very Strong Expertise in the following: Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, Gitlab VSC/Pipelines/Runners, Artifactory Strong proficiency with monitoring/observability tools such as New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, logging solutions (Fluentd/Elastic/Splunk) to include creating/customizing metrics and/or logging dashboards Backend development experience with languages to include Golang (preferred), Spring Boot, and Python Development Experience with the Operator SDK, HTTP/RESTful APIs, Microservices Familiarity with Cloud cost optimization (e.g. Kubecost) Strong experience with infra components like Flux, cert-manager, Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, VPC CNI, Over-provisioning, CoreDNS, metrics-server Familiarity with Wireshark, tshark, dumpcap, etc., capturing network traces and performing packet analysis Demonstrated expertise with the K8S ecosystem (inspecting cluster resources, determining cluster health, identifying potential application issues, etc.) Strong 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 Expertise in RBAC and Pod Security Standards, Quotas, LimitRanges, OPA Gatekeeper Policies Working experience with security tools such as Sysdig, Crowdstrike, Black Duck, etc. Demonstrated expertise with the K8S security ecosystem (SCC, network policies, RBAC, CVE remediation, CIS benchmarks/hardening, etc.) Networking of microservices, solid understanding of Kubernetes networking and troubleshooting Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Demonstrated very strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills Excellent verbal communication and written skills Even better if you have one or more of the following: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator Familiarity with creating custom EnvoyFilters for Istio service mesh and integrating with existing web application portals Experience with OWASP rules and mitigating security vulnerabilities using security tools like Fortify, Sonarqube, etc. Database experience (RDBMS, NoSQL, etc.)