Federal Principal Lifecycle Engineer

Verizon•Ashburn, VA

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

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... As a Principal Engineer, you will be tasked with developing resolutions to complex problems that require the frequent use of creativity. Additionally, you will also be conducting analysis of situations or data requiring an in-depth evaluation of variable factors and exercising judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Providing mentoring to other team members on networking, application design, engineering and automation while acting as the final escalation point to support production service issues in concert with application, operational, and triage teams. Leading performance meetings with the agency, planning and maintenance engineering and creating detailed project plans. Providing input on status calls with teams across several organizations. Finishing projects independently and meeting tight timelines without impacting critical services. Developing excellent working relationships with and working as a partner with other departments and vendors with the purpose developing best practices for engineering and operations. The Network Engineer provides day-to-day sustaining engineering support for the customer enterprise network. Designs and implements computer and information networks, such as local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), intranets, extranets, and other data communications networks including Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Performs network modeling, analysis, and planning. Also designs network and computer security measures. Researches and recommends network and data communications hardware and software. Supports the installation of new services and features, changes to existing services and features in accordance with prescribed change management procedures, implementation of approved upgrades, and scheduled maintenance. Support activities include Voice over IP (VoIP), Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) based services as well as Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) voice integration. Validate network and application operations following network changes. Execute design-impacting changes to the network, including configuration review & approval in accordance with approved design and engineering documentation. Execute fallback / contingency plans for network restoration and support disaster recovery drills. Monitor success indicators for design-impacting changes Update network design documentation, post implementation Works at an enterprise level and in cross-functional teams to assist with the development of strategic and enterprise plans.

Requirements

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.
Ability to ascertain a GSA Public Trust certificate and any other applicable security clearances required by the agency.
Cisco Network Certifications or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

Degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, or Technology related field.
Ability to lead and drive projects to completion and balance multiple work assignments simultaneously.
Critical thinking, problem solving abilities, and decision-making skills.
Ability to lead technical discussions with a group of individuals in the industry with varying technical positions.
Ability to work well both independently and in diverse teams.
Experience working with the Federal government.

Responsibilities

Develop resolutions to complex problems that require the frequent use of creativity.
Conduct analysis of situations or data requiring an in-depth evaluation of variable factors and exercising judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
Provide mentoring to other team members on networking, application design, engineering and automation.
Act as the final escalation point to support production service issues in concert with application, operational, and triage teams.
Lead performance meetings with the agency, planning and maintenance engineering and creating detailed project plans.
Provide input on status calls with teams across several organizations.
Finish projects independently and meeting tight timelines without impacting critical services.
Develop excellent working relationships with and work as a partner with other departments and vendors to develop best practices for engineering and operations.
Provide day-to-day sustaining engineering support for the customer enterprise network.
Design and implement computer and information networks, such as local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), intranets, extranets, and other data communications networks including Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
Perform network modeling, analysis, and planning.
Design network and computer security measures.
Research and recommend network and data communications hardware and software.
Support the installation of new services and features, changes to existing services and features in accordance with prescribed change management procedures, implementation of approved upgrades, and scheduled maintenance.
Support activities include Voice over IP (VoIP), Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) based services as well as Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) voice integration.
Validate network and application operations following network changes.
Execute design-impacting changes to the network, including configuration review & approval in accordance with approved design and engineering documentation.
Execute fallback / contingency plans for network restoration and support disaster recovery drills.
Monitor success indicators for design-impacting changes.
Update network design documentation, post implementation.
Work at an enterprise level and in cross-functional teams to assist with the development of strategic and enterprise plans.