Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Data Engineer at White Oak Technologies

Location: Oxon Hill area, MD

Skills:
  • Web Technologies
  • Data Structures
  • Compiler Design
  • Relational Databases
  • C++
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Text Analysis
Requirements:
  • At least 2 years scripting experience using a text processing language, e.g. awk/perl/python
  • At least 2 years experience in developing text parsing and transformations
  • Real world experience on very large data sets.
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Senior Database Internals Developer at White Oak Technologies

Location: Silver Spring, MD

Job Description:
We have an immediate opening in our Silver Spring office for an innovative Senior Database Internals Developer.This position is on the implementation team of a specialized high performance distributed database product that scales to very large data volumes (e.g, billions of records).
This is not a DBA position and requires core database internals implementation expertise.

Skills:
  • C/C++,
  • Implementation of database internal algorithms and data structures (e.g., implementing btrees, plan optimization)
  • Unix/Linux filesystems
Additional Skills:
Previous experience developing internals, engines, or extensions for a production database (e.g., Oracle, Postgres, Mysql, Sqlite) would be highly valued.

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Computer Scientist at White Oak Technologies

Location: Crystal City, Virginia

Requirements:
  • Design and develop high-performance data exploitation and web-database applications following a standard life cycle development model
  • Unit test development and quality assurance.
  • Have strong written and verbal communications skills
  • Ability to work effectively in a team environment,
  • Strong ability in troubleshooting production software.
Skills:
  • Linux
  • Python
  • HTML
  • SQL
Additional Skills:
  • Javascript
  • C++ language
  • Oracle database programming (and preferably performance tuning)
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

NOC Network Engineer at GoDaddy

Job Description
Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. We provide a variety of domain name registration and website hosting services as well as a broad array of on-demand and other services. We are the world’s largest domain name registrar, and North America’s largest shared website hosting provider. Offering a complete line of web development tools including domain name registration, hosting, email, SSL Certificates, on-line shopping carts and complementary products and services, Go Daddy.com was recently ranked # 8 on the Inc. 500 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the United States.

The position of Network Engineer requires an individual with a solid understanding of basic data communications concepts. Position responsibilities include daily operations, deployments, troubleshooting, service request fulfillment, and projects. Interaction with other teams within the company for a variety of company initiatives will be required. This position will work closely with the team on the future direction of the network design and implementation.

The Candidate will have strong communication skills with attention to detail; will work with a sense of urgency and take action quickly in response to ever-changing conditions in a high pressure, highly accountable environment; will be a creative problem solver.

Job Duties:
  • Complete tasks based on Workflow and Incident Tickets.
  • Assist with the creation of documentation for daily Network Operations tasks.
  • Respond to Alerts in order to maintain the highest available uptime of the network.
  • Perform level one and level two troubleshooting for network outages.
  • Escalate to Network Engineering based on established procedures.
  • BIND DNS updates as requested.
  • Configure Cisco switches, routers, Firewalls, and Content switches per request.
  • Open TAC cases as necessary.
  • Perform work according to established policies and procedures.
  • Shift work in a 24x7 environment required.
Skills/Requirements
  • Solid understanding of networking concepts, including IPv4, L2/L3 forwarding, firewalls, Quality of Service, L4-7 switching, VRF, Load Balancing
  • Experience in operating and troubleshooting data networks
  • Solid documentation abilities
  • Experience with network tools and functions such as tcpdump, ethereal, ntop, netflow accounting, iptables, ACLs, policy routing
  • Solid background in TCP/IP, BGP, DNS/Bind, OSPF, and other routing protocols.
  • Expert understanding of all Cisco Catalyst switches, Cisco CSS/CSM Content Switches, Cisco PIX/FWSM Firewalls, Routers, and VPN
  • Cisco CCNA certification preferred
  • Strong experience with ISC BIND DNS versions 8.x and 9.x
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Senior C#/.NET Engineer at GoDaddy

Job Description
GoDaddy.com is the industry leader in new domain name registration, enabling individuals and businesses to acquire, create and safeguard their unique identities and brands on the Internet. Offering a complete line of web development tools including domain name registration, hosting, email, SSL Certificates, on-line shopping carts and complementary products and services, GoDaddy.com was recently ranked # 8 on the Inc. 500 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the United States.
GoDaddy.com has an immediate opening at our Gilbert office for a highly motivated, self-starting Senior .Net Engineer.

Primary Responsibilities:
Responsible for development using Microsoft .NET Technologies to create, design, code and enhance web-based software applications to expand and improve GoDaddy.com’s suite of hosting products
Design and development of complex, distributed Windows applications using IIS, ASP.NET 2.0, MSMQ, AD

Skills/Requirements:
  • 5+ years of hands-on programming experience in team environments working on distributed systems
  • Solid academic background – Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or other technical field
  • In depth knowledge and experience with .NET(C#)
  • Skilled at turning UI designs into attractive, feature-rich, dynamic user interfaces using the latest techniques in web application development (e.g. ASP.NET AJAX)
  • Strong knowledge of OOD and SOA design principles
  • Experience with C++/COM a plus
  • Server-side development on Windows platform. Unix/Linux experience a plus
  • Relational database design, database normalization techniques
  • SQL development utilizing MSSQL and MySQL DBMS
  • Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills
  • Performance/Load/Stress tolerant design for high availability and high concurrent usage systems
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Capable of working with project manager to turn business requirements into an effective system design
  • Mature, independent, yet receptive to team participation
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills with the ability to interact effectively with employees at all levels within the organization
  • Support multiple concurrent projects
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