Principal Engineer – SRE

When you join Verizon You want more out of a career. 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. What you’ll be doing... Design, implement, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems. Develop and implement comprehensive strategies for disaster recovery, business continuity, and system resilience. (15%) Proactively monitor system health, performance metrics, and capacity utilization. Respond to and resolve critical incidents with minimal downtime. Perform in-depth root cause analysis for all production incidents, implementing preventative measures and systemic improvements. Actively participate in on-call rotations to provide critical support for production systems, ensuring high availability and swift incident resolution. (15%) Design, Develop and maintain pipeline configurations, and provide CI/CD environment build automation using technologies like EKS, Docker, Artifactory, Python, Shell, Ansible, and GitLab. (15%) Implement, configure, and enhance the ELK/EFK Logging platform across on-premise and AWS environments. (10%) Develop and maintain sophisticated automation scripts and tools to streamline operational workflows, reduce manual intervention, and improve efficiency. (10%) Develop and implement next-generation monitoring solutions based on SRE principles. (15%) Design and implement cutting-edge AI-driven solutions for proactive anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and intelligent system monitoring. Develop and integrate intelligent agents for automated incident response, self-healing systems, and proactive problem resolution. Utilize advanced machine learning models and techniques to optimize resource allocation, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Continuously evaluate, research, and integrate new AI/ML technologies and frameworks to enhance system reliability, efficiency, and operational intelligence. (15%) Provide expert technical guidance, mentorship, and training to junior SREs and other members of the engineering organization. (5%) What we’re looking for... Bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Applications, or a related field, and 6 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or as a Software Architect, Software Engineer, Cloud and AI Engineer, Test Engineer, Member Technical Staff, or in a related/similar position. Experience therein to include in the following: 6 years in Software Development Lifecycle including system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation; 5 years in Modern DevOps tools and practices; 5 years using software build tools like Maven, Gradle, Ant, Vite, setuptools, and Jenkins; 5 years using cloud technologies like AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), or Azure, and using Docker and Kubernetes; 5 years building test automation frameworks using Selenium, Robot, Playwright, or Appium, and using programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, or Python; 5 years developing and integrating web portals and dashboards to monitor SRE activities, and using frameworks like Next.js, React, or Angular; FastAPI, Spring Boot, or Express.js; and Databases including PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Elasticsearch and MongoDB; and 3 years developing Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions using LangChain, LangGraph, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, GitHub Copilot/Cursor, and Google Gemini. Hybrid role, ability to work from home. RATE OF PAY: $172,537-$231,000 /year Must Reference: Job # YKGUPR-W Where you’ll be working 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. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies. Scheduled Weekly Hours 40 Equal Employment Opportunity Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.