Sr Engineer - Systems & Tooling Migration Lead

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Verizon Global Infrastructure is seeking a highly skilled Senior Engineer (Systems & Tooling Migration Lead) to join our newly formed data center network team. In this role, you will lead the high-touch effort of migrating critical network management systems and IT tools-such as Splunk, Zabbix, SevOne -into newly established, secure network zones. You will serve as the primary liaison between the network team and various application owners to ensure a seamless transition of these services.

You will be responsible for mapping complex application dependencies and designing the migration path for these tools into a unified, cloud-native framework. Working in a Fortune 50 environment, you will redefine how management infrastructure is isolated and secured, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations during the migration process.

• Lead End-to-End Network Migrations: Orchestrate the migration of network management systems and tools into isolated zones, ensuring alignment with broader digital transformation and security goals.

• Architect Resilient Systems: Define migration standards and provide oversight for tooling resiliency, ensuring high availability and "Out-of-Band" access for management systems.

• Design & Document Technical Solutions: Create Low Level Design (LLD) diagrams and comprehensive migration playbooks to clearly communicate objectives to implementation and lab teams.

• Drive Security & Compliance: Integrate Identity and Access Management (IAM) and security policies into migration plans, ensuring all tools comply with updated vulnerability and risk benchmarks.

• Optimize Network Infrastructure: Evaluate and recommend Load Balancing and DNS configurations to support seamless service cutovers and system performance.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with application owners and stakeholders to map traffic flows and dependencies for critical systems like monitoring and logging.

• Validate & Execute: Lead Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs) to validate procedures before production and provide technical leadership to global engineering teams during high-risk maintenance windows.

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.

• Four or more years of experience in enterprise network implementation, testing, and data center operations; focused specifically on DNS, Load Balancing (Citrix/F5), and IP Address Management (IPAM).

• Experience in large-scale Fortune 50 enterprise environments with tens of thousands of endpoints.

• Prior experience leading complex application migrations or data center consolidation projects.

• Familiarity with automation tools (Python, Ansible) to accelerate the migration of configurations.

• Hands-on experience with network monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, Zabbix, or SevOne.

• Deep knowledge of firewall policies and proxies required to secure management application traffic.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across diverse stakeholder groups.

• Experience designing and implementing fault-tolerant architectures for critical IT services.

• Strong understanding of operating systems (Linux/Windows) and how they interact with network infrastructure.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we've got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.