What you’ll be doing...

Join Verizon as we continue to expand our industry-leading network to improve the ways people, businesses, and things connect. Verizon is positioned to lead the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (4IR) with the emergence of technologies like our best-in-class 5G network and the Internet of Things (IoT) to impact a wide variety of industries such as healthcare, education, manufacturing, public safety, government, and many others. We are in the midst of historic breakthroughs in connectivity and mobility to blend the physical and the digital through cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, nanotechnologies, 3D printing, wearables, and advanced robotics. As part of this team, you will play a critical role in our network transformation through building a unified network across all lines of business and maintaining the technology that keeps millions of our customers connected.

The SDN/NFV Orchestration and Assurance Development team is a part of the Global Network Management organization. This team is principally concerned with orchestration, service assurance, and life cycle management of virtualized network functions (VNFs), Cloud-native Network Functions (CNFs), and Network Services (NSs). The primary objective is to utilize our orchestration and assurance platform(s) to drive full end-to-end automation of every VNF, CNF, and NS from cataloging, to instantiation to full Life Cycle Management of each element and service over time.

• Work with various Verizon teams including planning, maintenance engineering, and operations teams along with world-class engineers involved in Verizon’s virtualization effort to design, develop, and automate the orchestration of VNFs, CNFs, and NSs.

• Manage the lifecycle of VNF/CNF/NS descriptors and lead the testing & deployment, and support of VNFs, CNFs, and NSs in various cloud platforms including OpenStack based Verizon Cloud Platform (VCP).

• Work with Verizon Network and Application Planning teams, maintenance engineering, and engineering/operations teams to identify opportunities to automate manual activities involved in onboarding, orchestrating, and deploying a VNF/CNF/NS and automate them using a centralized platform and orchestration tool chain to reduce the overall onboarding and orchestration timeframe. This includes pre-instantiation and post instantiation activities.

• Use/contribute to developing standards needed to automate onboarding & orchestration of VNFs/CNFs/NSs.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four more years of work experience

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience using an Orchestrator product or VNF Manager.

• Knowledge of OpenStack based Cloud Platforms.

• Knowledge of NFV and SDN products, technologies, architectures.

• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Even better if you have:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• Linux/Unix scripting experience especially for TCP/IP stack, Firewalls (IP tables), DNS, VPNs.
• Programming aptitude in Python, Java scripts, SOAP, Ruby, PHP.
• Experience with API development based on JSON, XML.
• Experience with server provisioning using cloud-init and cloud config.
• Experience with Ansible.
• Experience with deployment or use of configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Jenkins.
• Knowledge of data center virtualization technologies (servers, networks and software stacks), monitoring tools and processes.
• Experience with Software Defined Networking principals or system.
• Experience with deploying CNFs in Kubernetes
• Knowledge of wireless networks – LTE, IMS, MPN or Knowledge of wireline networks and services – Private and Public IP network services, Switched Ethernet Services, Managed network services.
• Knowledge of network device configuration and management (Juniper, Cisco) with NetConnetwork configuration protocol and YANG data model.
• Experience with CLI configuration of switches and routers (Such as Cisco, Juniper), firewalls (such as pala alto, F5), load balancers (such as F5).
• Experience with networking services consisting of Virtual and Physical Network Functions.
• Experience onboarding VNFs on to NFV Orchestrators such as NFV Director and Ericsson Cloud Manager.
• Knowledge of cloud-native application architectures.
• Certifications in cloud technologies (i.e. OpenStack, Redhat/Linux, AWS).
• Experience with Open Source tools.
• Experience with container orchestration and tools.

When you join Verizon

Verizon is a leading provider of technology, communications, information and entertainment products, transforming the way we connect across the globe. We’re a diverse network of people driven by our ambition and united in our shared purpose to shape a better future. Here, we have the ability to learn and grow at the speed of technology, and the space to create within every role. Together, we are moving the world forward – and you can too. Dream it. Build it. Do it here.

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