Job Description

When you join Verizon
You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.
Verizon's Cloud Engineering & Enablement team is looking for Software Development and Automation Engineer. The candidate will be playing a key role in all dev and automation assignments and would be working under the mentorship of a technical lead who would be supporting on timely delivery. You will also get the opportunity to work on SaaS based Performance monitoring Tools like New Relic and Catchpoint and collaborate/engage directly with these vendors to deploy automations, new features around these Products customising it for Verizon.
What you'll be doing...

• Building applications and automations by following coding standards, building appropriate unit tests, integration tests, and deployment scripts
• Working closely with business teams, third party vendors, and other internal IT teams to deliver projects on time.
• Collaborating with platform, cloud, security, and application teams to define automation requirements and deliver optimized solutions
• Contributing to planning, designing, configuring, testing, implementing, documenting, and maintaining the product platform to meet business needs and demands.
• Serving as the go-to expert for Terraform and Ansible in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and reusable infrastructure code
• Developing custom scripts and automation tools using Python to extend capabilities and fill operational gap
• Looking at opportunities to eliminate toil in the system, bring agility in delivery

What we're looking for...
We are looking for a Software Developer and Automation Engineer with knowledge in Cloud, DevOps Tools, Automation, excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Experience in Python development with hands-on experience in deploying and managing applications using AWS Lambda
• Experience in managing Terraform as an Infrastructure as Code tool, including state management, module creation, provider configuration, and workflow optimization
• Experience in implementing, and managing solutions leveraging various AWS services like Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), Amazon S3, ALB etc
• Experience in advanced SQL/procedures on MySQL/MongoDB/MariaDB/Oracle/Druid.
• Knowledge of SDLC with Devops tools and Agile Development.

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

• Experience developing custom Ansible modules and plugins
• Experience in Frontend/Web technologies like React.js and backend services.
• Experience in code review, quality, performance tuning with problem solving and debugging skills.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps) and Git-based workflows.
• Experience in managing and optimizing Ansible environments for large-scale deployments
• Good communication, interpersonal skills and communication skills to clearly articulate and influence stakeholders.
• Very good problem solving skills.

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.
Where you'll be working In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.
Scheduled Weekly Hours 40
Equal Employment Opportunity
Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.