Engineer III Specialist - Cloud

You will be part of a World Class Container Platform team that builds and operates highly scalable Kubernetes based container platforms(EKS, OCP, OKE and GKE) at a large scale for Global Technology Solutions at Verizon, a top 20 Fortune 500 company. This individual will have a high level of technical expertise and daily hands-on implementation working in a product team developing services in two week sprints using agile principles. This entitles programming and orchestrating the deployment of feature sets into the Kubernetes CaaS platform along with building Docker containers via a fully automated CI/CD pipeline utilizing AWS, Jenkins Ansible playbooks, AWS, CI/CD tools and process (Jenkins, JIRA, GitLab, ArgoCD), Python, Shell Scripts or any other scripting technologies. You will have autonomous control over day-to-day activities allocated to the team as part of agile development of new services

• Automation and testing of different platform deployments, maintenance and decommissioning
• Full Stack Development
• Participate in POC(Proof of Concept) technical evaluations for new technologies for use in the cloud

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience
• Three or more years of relevant kubernetes-centric development experience
• GitOpsCI/CD workflows (ArgoCD, Flux) and Working in Agile Ceremonies Model
• Address Jira tickets opened by platform customers
• Strong Expertise of SDLC and Agile Development
• Design, develop and implement scalable React/Node based applications (Full stack developer) - Experience with development with HTTP/RESTful APIs, Micro services
• Experience with Serverless Lambda Development, AWS Event Bridge, AWS Step Functions, DynamoDB, Python - Database experience (RDBMS, NoSQL, etc.)
• Familiarity integrating with existing web application portals - Backend development experience with languages to include Golang (preferred), Spring Boot, and Python
• Experience with GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Helm, Terraform, Artifactory
• 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
• Terraform and/or Ansible experience
• Bash scripting experience
• Effective code review, quality, performance tuning experience, Test Driven Development
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Excellent cross collaboration and communication skills

• Working experience with security tools such as Sysdig, Crowdstrike, Black Duck, Xray, etc
• Experience with OWASP rules and mitigating security vulnerabilities using security tools like Fortify, SonarQube, etc
• Experience with monitoring tools like NewRelic (NRDOT), OTLP
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator
• Development Experience with the Operator SDK
• Experience creating validating and/or mutating web hooks
• Familiarity with creating custom EnvoyFilters for Istio service mesh
• Familiarity with Cloud cost optimisation (e.g. Kubecost, CloudHealth)
• Ability to work with app teams to implement cost optimisation/rightsizing recommendations
• Create custom automation as necessary related to cost optimisation