Company Profile:

At Verizon India, you can pursue your ambitions and drive meaningful change. From 5G and IoT to AI and more, you'll work on exciting initiatives across the business when you join our team. You'll also play a critical role in the development of new technologies, monitor Verizon’s business operations, and work on UX initiatives for our business and customers. We’re a diverse network of people driven by our aspirations and shared purpose, committed to shaping the future.

Job description:

What you’ll be doing...

• Working closely with external teams to define release content and ensure growth of the platform to meet competitive demands.
• Leading and mentoring engineering web and application programming interface teams through software platform releases, ensuring products are on spec, architecturally sound, and delivered on time.
• Supporting customers with major platform issues and coordinating triage efforts to solve them.
• Documenting and maintaining architectural guidance to ensure performance and scalability of the platform.
• Leading the product strategy by shaping industry knowledge into a high-level strategic plan for the SDE Platform
• Creating product roadmaps taking industry & key stakeholder inputs and guide working plan inputs to the team from it
• Mentoring the team to live by design and operational principles targeted at delivering a World Class product
• Acting as a cross-functional partner to other Portfolios, by actively participating in features & capabilities, guiding conceptualization of solutions, wide architecture discussions, and software engineering best practices, among others.
• Adhering to industry standards and best practices and understanding emerging technologies and trends to continuously improve the systems, application, infrastructure, and processes.
• Leveraging Agile, DevOps, and Cloud principles and practices along with working closely with teams to transform the way they work.
• Influencing usage of latest technologies to enhance self service and reduce manual toil through chatbot, RPA and ML techniques.
• Leading, managing and architecting all automation activities within the cloud engineering team.
• Participating in design review of new infrastructure, and new product/tool development.
• Participating in devops tool analysis, creates proof of concept models, and makes recommendations to support the tools selection process.
• Ensuring tool compliance to verizon security protocols and implementing security and governance related automations.
• Ensuring Proactive server performance improvements, devise upgrade plans, and execute those plans in a timely manner.
• Connecting with external cloud engineering & devops user communities through meetups and forums to understand the best practices and share common solutions that have paved the way for user experience.
• Analyzing test results on application functionality, database impacts, errors or bugs, usability, users stories and/use cases/requirements for validity and feasibility.

 

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.

What we’re looking for...

 

You’ll need to have:

• Nine or more years of relevant work experience leading teams developing & operating Products using cutting edge Cloud technologies
• Strong Experience in leading full stack programming & development using Java, Python and JavaScript including web design and architecture.
• Solid experience & exposure to APIs of Devops & Delivery Products including Clarity, Jira, Rally, GitLab, Sonar, Jenkins, Artifactory, QTest, Confluence, etc
• Strong experience in Product conceptualization to Execution, Customer Insight & User Experience, Product Strategy , and running Design Sprints for experimentation.
• An ability to make swift decisions in a dynamic context and requiring a sense of world class quality, safety, and reliability will be key for this role.

 

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

 

• Experience working and leading team working on full stack with UI, server-side microservices & operating the product is required.
• Solid experience in deploying & operating software solutions using DevOps & SRE Practices
• Demonstrated Ability in exercising technical judgment for solving software engineering challenges.
• Highly familiar with Agile methodologies and best practices, with a focus on continuous improvement and high predictability.
• Familiar with any Cloud Computing Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)