Principal Data Engineer

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This position is part of our Artificial and Intelligence (AI&D) organization which focuses on delivering the power of data and AI to drive our marketplace leadership through innovative solutions that create value for our customers, shareholders, V teamers and society, responsibly.

As a part of the VZ Platform Engineering Team for the Artificial Intelligence and Data organization, you will be responsible for architecture, design, implementation, support & Administration of GCP infrastructure. You will support, implement, and maintain GCP infrastructure in Verizon and will be responsible for running GCP cluster(s). You will provide thought leadership in the cloud platform area.

What you'll be doing…

• Acting as an internal subject matter expert on all major servicing of Google Cloud Platform.

• Responding to technical incidents reported by multiple applications.

• Infrastructure provisioning on Google Cloud Platform.

• Performance tuning and cost optimization of the infrastructure and/or jobs running on Google Cloud.

• Creating Best Practices, Reusable Frameworks.

• Creating Custom Monitoring and alerts & auto remediation.

• Creating technical procedural documentation for Data Engineers , Platform Engineers & ML Engineers.

• Coordination with Data Engineers, MLE engineers & Enterprise Architects.

• Developing Proof of Concept technology deployments for potential new and emerging cloud and hybrid technologies

What we're looking for…

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

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

Even better if you have or more of the following:

• Strong communication skills: experience presenting to clients and executive-level leadership.

• Hands on experience with scripting languages: Python preferred, Shell

• Willingness to work a flexible schedule to include evenings, weekends, and holidays based on the needs of the business.

• Eight years or more of experience in supporting production cloud or Big Data infrastructure.

• Knowledge of BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer, Dataproc

• Experience designing and building multi-tenant IaaS and PaaS cloud solutions with particular emphasis on Google Cloud.

• Experience with SDLC and continuous delivery tool sets: GitLab CI, Jenkins or comparable tools.

• Experience with cloud engineering

• Three or more years of experience using automation scripting languages: Python, Ansible, Bash.

• Knowledge of Agile/SCRUM methodologies.

• Experience with cloud solution design patterns (microservices, messaging, distributed caching, containers, IAM etc.).

• Performance tuning experience.

• Experience in the following areas: Apache- Spark, Hive, Pig Jobs.

• Experience of leading and delivering complex technology solutions.

• Ability to act confidently and cautiously in break-the-glass production scenarios to resolve customer outages.

• Experience with containers and container orchestration.

• Experience with the Kubernetes ecosystem.

• Knowledge/experience of cloud networking, virtualization, storage, containers, and serverless.

• Ability to mentor and develop technology workers in a collaborative team.

• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex systems.

• Ability to document complex systems and processes, including the development of maintenance and change procedures.

• Ability to communicate processes and requirements to peers and off-site resources, including personnel at remote sites and vendors.

• GCP Certified Architect , Data Engineer

Where you'll be working

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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