Distinguished Engineer – Systems Architecture
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Distinguished Systems Architect designing Verizon’s high-scale API authentication, routing, and authorization infrastructure. Defining platform architecture, reliability, security, and cloud strategy across multi-region systems.
Responsibilities:
- 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
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