Principal Kubernetes Engineer
Company | Verizon Communications |
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Location | Twinsburg, OH, USA, E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL, USA, Ashburn, VA, USA, Somerset County, NJ, USA, Southlake, TX, USA |
Salary | $120500 – $231000 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
- Six or more years of relevant work experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
- Leadership experience as a subject matter expert.
- Demonstrated Linux System Administration Skills.
- Experience with service mesh to manage Layer 7 networking.
- Automation experience with tools such as BASH, Ansible, and Python.
- Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting various distributions of Kubernetes.
- Working knowledge of the Kubernetes API Server.
- Knowledge of NFS and Networking fundamentals.
- Working knowledge of Git, Gitlab, GitHub and CICD workflows.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the onboarding and operational support for applications within Verizon Cloud Platform.
- Responsible for system administration, network administration for upstream and downstream network elements supporting the 5G Core.
- Lead the implementation of feature designs and provide feedback to engineering for solutions to improve reliability and performance.
- Partner with key stakeholders to ensure new features and or fixes are swiftly tested and rolled out with no negative impact to customers.
- Provide advanced support for the Verizon Cloud Platform.
- Help onboard tenants to the Webscale Platform, while developing an in-depth understanding of the client applications.
- Participate in on-call rotation that provides after hours critical support to tenant applications.
- Lead failure analysis and remediation efforts.
- Provide concise weekly updates to management and present project status to leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrable experience with SDN related concepts and protocols.
- Virtualization and Linux Certifications.
- Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting Openshift.
- Experience with OVN-Kubernetes.
- Experience with Multus CNI.
- Experience with Service Proxy for Kubernetes.
- Experience with NETApp Storage Solution.
- Experience with Object Storage (Swiftstack/MINIO).
- Working knowledge of Openstack.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.