Military Fellowship - Principal Systems Engineer

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

 The position of Principal Systems Engineer - Antispam is responsible for development of and building applications that help analyze and filter spam messages from Verizon’s network. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading a team to develop tools and automation to increase integrated visibility into spam

• Integrate data from diverse systems via APIs, including both well documented public APIs and Verizon internal; creating collectors and wrappers where needed

• Using VCP, OpenStack, and Git/Source Code Management, as well as best practice

• Programming of orchestration to automate end-to-end deployment of application VNFs

• Partner with infrastructure organizations such as IT/NS, HQ Planning, Network Implementation, Maintenance Engineering, Performance, VCP, TEI, and DSO teams on cross-functional projects

• Partner with Operations teams to actively understand needs for automation for anti-spam

• Leverage enterprise resources, utilizing existing infrastructure where possible and creating integrations where needed 

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program Cohort 3-2024.

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

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent work experience required, Master’s degree a plus

• Four or more years of experience in the wireless, telecommunication, or IT industries

• Expertise with Linux Operating System or other UNIX

• Working and Proven Knowledge of Programming or Scripting Skills, especially Python (Experience with Flask web framework, and/or other languages a plus)

• Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as OpenStack

• Knowledge of Source Code and Configuration Management using git essential (Issue tracking, branching, and merging a plus)

• Working functional knowledge and experience with consuming HTTP(S)-based RESTful APIs

• Experience working modern configuration management and orchestration tools (Heat, Ansible, Helm, etc)

• Experience interfacing with RDBMS a plus (i.e. Postgres, MariaDB, MySQL, etc)

• Other experience which will be a plus but not a requirement: TCP/IP Networking, DNS, routing, load balancing, firewalls required, Linux, NFVO (ETSI SOL), 4G and/or 5G networks,  monitoring, performance, and capacity planning tools a plus (i.e. SevOne, ELK, Grafana, Splunk, Tableau) 

• A solid balance between both technological and collaboration skills and abilities.

• Excellent Verbal and Written Communication Skills, especially Technical Writing

• Ability to learn and adapt quickly to an agile and fast evolving environment

• Ability to read, evaluate, and contribute to designs, plans, roadmaps, etc

• Working knowledge of MS Office and/or G-Suite

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.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

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