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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.\nWhat you'll be doing...\nAs a Distinguished Engineer- Cloud, you will independently lead requirements, analysis, design and development effort for the observability components of this 80,000 server platform. The core of this role is owning VCP's metrics and log observability platform end to end - the responsibilities below for hardware monitoring, secrets management, and documentation are real and substantial, but they connect to and support that central platform rather than standing apart from it.\nWe engineer, build, and operate a global private cloud infrastructure called Verizon Cloud Platform (VCP) powered by OpenStack, Kubernetes, and NetApp that supports applications used for numerous internal and external Verizon networks.\nYou will be responsible for the following but not limited to:\nOwning the architecture and day-to-day operation of the VCP infrastructure metrics and log observability platform - including a dedicated multi-zone VictoriaMetrics cluster purpose-built for long-term capacity planning across OpenShift and NetApp storage, and an active initiative consolidating multiple independent log clusters into a single, cross-site-replicated logging platform. \nDesigning and maintaining the recording-rule pipelines, cross-repo metric filtering, and dashboarding that keep that data accurate and trustworthy at scale - work that requires real quantitative judgment: choosing the right aggregation method for a given signal, reasoning about metric cardinality and its memory and cost impact, and validating capacity assumptions against actual usage data rather than spec-sheet numbers. \nOwning and managing a highly capable set of systems in the lab to model production and to monitor development lab systems.\nDesigning and building automation and internal tooling from scratch where off-the-shelf options don't fit - including custom services that extract live infrastructure state (Kubernetes, physical network topology, hardware inventory) and model it for cross-system querying and analysis.\nFinding, comparing and testing solutions to new problems or alternatives to existing solutions, whether they be off-the-shelf free or purchased products or internally developed custom solutions. You should be prepared to collaborate with stakeholders in the decision-making and to advocate for your chosen solution using real data and analysis.\nProviding active and assertive leadership on key projects designed to simplify processes, reduce expenses, free up capital, and drive towards the network architecture of the future.\nEngineering of OpenShift/Kubernetes (architecture, design and administration) - including managing GitOps-based deployment pipelines (ArgoCD) across multiple production OpenShift-base Webscale clusters spanning core, edge, and faredge environments.\nLeading secrets-management architecture and migrations (e.g., moving legacy Vault-integration patterns to modern External Secrets Operator approaches) across a multi-cluster fleet.\nOwning monitoring and automation for bare metal hardware health and lifecycle data (Redfish/BMC), in partnership with the team's hardware leads.\nDeveloping documentation, automation and test plans to support test, deployment and operations teams.\nResponding to and driving root-cause resolution for production incidents affecting the metrics/logging platform itself.\nWhat we're looking for...\nWe're looking for someone who investigates and learns new technologies independently, not just someone who executes a known playbook.\nYou’ll need to have:\nBachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.\nEight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work and/or military experience, or specialized training.\nProduction experience administering Kubernetes clusters at scale (OpenShift or vanilla Kubernetes).\nExperience with Prometheus-compatible metrics systems such as Prometheus, Thanos, Cortex, Victoriametrics or similar - including recording rules, federation, and multi-cluster/multi-tenant architectures.\nExperience in Log management using tools like ELK, Splunk, Victorialogs or other notification systems like Icinga or Alertmanager.\nExperience in software development experience in Python.\nEven better if you have one or more of the following:\nBachelor's Degree or experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other degree focused on problem-solving\nExperience in operating network or infrastructure monitoring at true carrier/hyperscale - tens of thousands of nodes or more, not the hundreds-to-low-thousands typical of large enterprise environments. \nExperience in log collection cycle, common in enterprise monitoring. \nExperience in software development in Python (or equivalent), involving building and maintaining standalone services and not limited to writing automation scripts.\nKnowledge of cloud-native application architecture and cloud platforms.\nKnowledge of NFV and SDN products, technologies, architectures, and vendors\nOpenStack and Kubernetes certification-level technical knowledge and expertise.\nExperience in Public, Private, and/or Hybrid Cloud processes.\nDevelopment experience using GoLang\nExperience with deployment or use of configuration management tools such as; Ansible, Helm, or Argocd\nGitOps experience with ArgoCD, managing app-of-apps patterns across multiple production Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters.\nProficiency with Git-based version control workflows, particularly GitLab, at production scale.\nDirect experience with VictoriaMetrics and/or VictoriaLogs specifically, distributed cluster operation, multi-tenancy, and capacity/retention planning at multi-terabyte-per-day ingest scale.\nExperience in Storage platform - NetApp, MinIO, or other enterprise/object storage systems.\nGrafana dashboard design and broader observability/visualization best practices.\nExperience with Kafka and stream-processing pipelines in an operational monitoring context.\nExperience with graph databases (NebulaGraph, Neo4j, or similar) for modeling infrastructure or network topology.\nFamiliarity with Redfish/BMC-based hardware monitoring and baremetal fleet management.\nExperience with External Secrets Operator, HashiCorp Vault, or comparable secrets-management platforms in Kubernetes environments.\nFamiliarity with OIDC/identity federation patterns (Dex, Keycloak, or similar) for securing internal tooling access.\nPossess quantitative and statistical reasoning - choosing the right aggregation method for a given signal, reasoning about metric cardinality and its memory/cost impact, and validating capacity assumptions against real usage data rather than spec-sheet numbers.\nIf 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.\nWhere you’ll be working\nIn this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.Scheduled Weekly Hours\n40Equal Employment Opportunity \nVerizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.\nBenefits and Compensation\nOur benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.\nThe salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. 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