Senior Engineer - Architecture & Infrastructure

Senior Engineer - Architecture & Infrastructure

Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet. We are a trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world and deliver unmatched performance in domain name system (DNS) services.

We are a mission focused, values driven company where each individual can contribute to building a stronger, more secure internet. We offer a dynamic and flexible work environment with competitive benefits and the ability to grow your career.

Verisign is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the central team in our architecture and infrastructure organization. This role has high visibility and cross-functional responsibilities. Successful applicants must demonstrate superior communications skills, prioritization skills, and diverse technical skills.

In this role, you will work with a small team supporting the vice president of the architecture and infrastructure organization. Responsibilities cover a wide variety of tasks including, oversight/governance of time-sensitive asks, serving as the point-of-contact for cross-team initiatives, producing documentation, and implementing initiatives to level-up our engineers and people leaders.

If working in a fast-paced environment on a wide variety of initiatives sounds like you, apply today!

Responsibilities

• Overseeing that attestations, critical asks, and other corporate objectives are completed in a timely manner
• Being a central contact for the team, answering questions and pointing people in the right direction
• Serving as the point-of-contact for cross-team initiatives
• Producing statistics and reporting for key objectives
• Keeping track of the vulnerability management process and escalating as necessary
• Authoring process documentation and HowTo guides
• Writing annual goals for the broader team
• Implementing training and development objectives to the Architecture and Infrastructure teams
• Coordinating business continuity and disaster recovery objectives for the Architecture and Infrastructure teams
• Working with teams to document mission statements, procedures, and responsibilities
• Managing access to distribution lists, access lists, and chat rooms
• Consolidating and editing status reports for executive level consumption
• Coordinating operating reviews for each area in the Architecture and Infrastructure organization

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering required, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of technology experience in software development, infrastructure, systems, people management, or other related technical areas
• Highly detailed oriented, able to juggle many balls and re-prioritize frequently
• Hands-on technical, willing to process daily work requests
• Strong judgement, must be experienced handling confidential information
• Awesome communications, must be able to interact with all levels of engineers, people managers, and executives
• Able to context-switch and be successful at completing work, even with constant interruptions
• Fungible and adaptable, with a wide background of skills to draw on, able to complete diverse asks, sometimes with minimal direction
• Self-starter, able to progress tasks which have “grey space”, where some details may be unknown
• Avid learner, willing to research/study and capable of picking up new things quickly

Preferred:

• 12+ years of technology experience across many different teams and roles
• Experience working as a team-lead, supervisor, or people manager
• Recognizes and appropriately communicates employee engagement matters to leadership
• Well versed in proofreading and editing presentations, white-papers, and executive communications
• Knowledge of industry best-practices in the architecture, software development, or infrastructure spaces
• Experience teaching, coaching, or developing training materials
• Working knowledge of public and/or private cloud technologies
• Knowledge of software development and automation, able to streamline routine work

This position is based in our Reston, VA and offers a hybrid work schedule.

The pay range is $164,300 - $222,300.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.