Distinguished Engineer – Systems Architecture

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🔥 17 hours ago

🏖️ New Jersey, Massachusetts, +1 more states – Remote

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💵 $137k - $263k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Verizon

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10,000+ employees

📡 Telecommunications

👥 B2C

🏢 Enterprise

Telecommunications • B2C • Enterprise

Verizon is a major U. S. telecommunications company that provides wireless, broadband, and enterprise network services connecting consumers and businesses. The provided career-site text emphasizes its large, global workforce and focus on roles across technology, retail, finance, and engineering; commitments to employee benefits, learning and development, and corporate responsibility; and a mission to power how people live, work, and play by connecting them to what matters. Verizon operates large-scale consumer-facing services (mobile and home internet) and business/enterprise networking solutions, including advanced technologies like 5G and network infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Define the overall platform architecture, technical strategy, system reliability, and security controls across identity and platform services • Architect large-scale end-to-end platforms • Design prototypes to test viability • Establish architectural blueprints • Serve as the paramount subject matter expert during critical production incidents requiring deep system-wide diagnosis • Determine business and technical requirements for performance, security, reliability, scalability, and sustainability with internal and external stakeholders • Design, document, and maintain blueprints for large-scale systems infrastructure, virtual application topologies, multi-region data persistence, and inter-network API gateways • Design and implement First Office Applications, proof-of-concept models, and benchmarks • Partner with technology operations to lead production environment changes and ensure platform stability • Act as the primary escalation point for severe, system-wide production outages across cloud networks, Kubernetes orchestration, distributed SQL databases, and IAM services • Own security posture, compliance frameworks, and infrastructure lifecycle management • Conduct technical reviews of AWS IAM, KMS, and CloudTrail environments • Manage system cost optimizations and resolve vulnerabilities across virtual and physical environments • Provide technological vision for platform and network transformation • Lead cross-functional engineering teams, support system architectures, alleviate upstream/downstream impacts, and manage technology lifecycle planning

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience • Eight or more years of relevant experience, demonstrated through work and/or military experience or specialized training • Experience in systems architecture, with demonstrated scope leading large-scale enterprise system designs • Experience in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), cloud-native platform blueprints, API gateway design, and cross-system protocol design • Experience with OAuth2, OIDC, PKCE, JWT, and CIBA • Advanced fluency in cloud computing and AWS ecosystems, including EKS, IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, Cost Explorer, and networking • Experience with multi-region system deployment and infrastructure-as-code principles • Deep understanding of distributed systems topologies, distributed databases such as CockroachDB and Spanner, data replication, transaction isolation behavior, and storage architectures • Ability to lead cross-functional architecture reviews, perform requirements analysis, conduct system benchmarking, and mentor engineering teams using Agile methodologies • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field is listed as an 'even better' qualification; MS, MBA, or equivalent experience is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Short- and long-term disability insurance • Basic and 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, holiday pay, and allowances, depending on the role • Up to 15 days of vacation per year for newly hired employees, increasing with additional service • Incentive-based compensation with potential to earn more