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We are seeking a passionate and skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our VZCloud DevOps team. You will play a crucial role in developing, deploying, and maintaining our infrastructure and applications in the on-prem cloud platform, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and tools. Your expertise will help us ensure continuous integration and delivery, enabling rapid development and deployment cycles. The Devops Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality products and a reduced time to market and SLAs.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Providing both functional and technical leadership to the Verizon Cloud DevOps team, encompassing architecture, design, and implementation of solutions utilizing industry-standard tools and technologies.
• Enabling and supporting CI/CD automation through comprehensive pipelines that include builds, deployments, security and code scans, as well as integration testing.
• Collaborating closely with engineers, operations, product managers, and other stakeholders to address organizational needs and maintain competitiveness, ensuring optimal application availability, scalability, and performance from the infrastructure level upward.
• Continuously evaluating existing processes and practices, and proactively recommending and driving improvements.
• Assessing competitive products and technologies, and offering informed recommendations—leveraging demos and proof-of-concepts—to help shape product and technology direction.
• Overseeing application deployments and rollbacks.
• Monitoring and analyzing hardware resources, security, operating systems, service logs, and performance metrics using centralized tools to identify and resolve issues.
• Partnering with performance engineers to review and optimize software design and code, enhancing both performance and capacity.
• Creating and maintaining thorough documentation for software designs, code, and processes, and sharing expertise with team members through code reviews, presentations, and mentorship.
• Developing, deploying, and maintaining Hadoop Spark Scala jobs.
• Keeping up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in software development, and participating in relevant training and conferences to further develop skills and knowledge.