Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Verizon is a telecommunications company that connects people, businesses, and communities through network services. The Principal Engineer will lead network security architecture, policy engineering, deployment strategies, auditing, automation, reliability, incident investigations, and vendor management across Verizon’s network environments.
Responsibilities
- Architectural Design & Strategy: Lead strategic alignment of business objectives with technical solutions by translating complex requirements into scalable architectural designs and implementation roadmaps, and design fault-tolerant platform architectures to support long-term growth and system reliability at scale
- Access Control & Policy Engineering: Drive access control design for major projects, collaborating with application owners to optimize policy design, evaluate different policy approaches for efficiency, anticipate design impact, and minimize deployment risks
- Engineering Standards & Technical Leadership: Act as a cross-functional technical authority in Network Security to set engineering standards, lead enterprise-wide knowledge-sharing, and evolve organizational workflows to optimize collaboration and accountability
- Operations, Support & Reliability: Oversee deployment strategies, hardware/software lifecycle management, and architect a resilient 24x7 support model with automation and observability, while defining and tracking KPIs and SLOs to measure platform performance and scalability
- Evaluation, Incident Investigation & Vendor Management: Evaluate new platforms, lead internal investigations and RFOs for access control incidents, extract lessons learned, and manage vendor evaluations
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience
- Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training
- Experience in Network and Security Operations
- Hands-on experience with firewall engineering (F5, Juniper, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Cisco, Fortinet, etc.), networking and routing protocols (TCP/IP, VPN), and network security fundamentals and best practices
- Strong capability in troubleshooting network connections, resolving complex network access and routing issues, participating in technical discussions, and handling on-call duties
- Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively with minimal supervision, lead complex tasks and projects, mentor junior engineers, and maintain high standards of accountability and work ethics
- High level understanding of access control design impact on a large and complex production network
- Understand the VCP Core, Edge and Far Edge networks, end-to-end
- CISSP, CCNP, Palo Alto, Juniper, FortiGate, F5 certifications
- Experience in training and mentoring junior engineers
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Short-term and long-term disability benefits
- Basic life insurance
- Supplemental life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Identity theft protection
- Pet insurance
- Group home and auto insurance
- Matched 401(k) savings plan
- Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year
- Up to 6 personal days per year
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Tuition assistance
- Premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, and holiday pay, depending on the role
- Allowances, depending on the role
- Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service
- In 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.
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