Friday, October 11, 2013

CoBank - Software Engineer

At CoBank, our Software Engineer will analyze, design, develop, configure, test and debug enhancements and new implementations of custom and third party applications at CoBank.  This role with be responsible for providing technical leadership for development projects, adhering to CoBank development methodology and producing appropriate supporting documentation. This individual will also provide business hours and after hours support for applications already in production.

Other duties and Responsibilities include:

·  Provides workday and after-hours production support, including troubleshooting, problem correction, testing, and promotion to the production environment. Analysis of  root cause of application issues and facilitates resolution by coordinating with the vendor, internal IT and users as appropriate

·  Provides QA expertise in reviewing technical project deliverables for other technical staff


Why this job: CoBank ACB, which is headquartered here in Denver, is a strong financial institution with an impressive historical performance. Our Software Engineers support a broad range of applications, and will work with many departments throughout the bank, gaining exposure to all areas.


Required Qualifications

·  Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or relevant discipline

·  4+ years MS development technologies including: C#/VB.NET, SQL Server and ASP.NET

·  Additional related skill sets include CSS, HTML, IIS configuration and XML

·  4+ years MS SQL Server tools and database design concepts including SQL, Stored Procedures, SSIS and SSRS

·  Familiarity with Source Code Control tools such as TFS or Visual Source Safe

·  Experience with at least one system design/development methodology (RUP, TDD, BIM) 

Preferred Qualifications

·  Experience with Secure application Development (OWASP top 10, Threat Modeling etc.)

·  Familiarity with ASP. NET MVC

·  Familiarity with reporting and automated job scheduling tools

·  2+ years direct experience with Java Script including AJAX, JQuery, and JSON

·  Exposure to SharePoint, HTML5, Oracle, Unix or PeopleSoft (SQR & PeopleTools)

·  Financial Services industry experience

EchoStar - Developer

EchoStar delivers innovative products and services that power global communication, commerce and entertainment. Through our market-leading Digital Broadcast Centers across North America, we operate one the world’s largest and most advanced digital broadcast networks, serving over 17 million end users every day. Our historical pioneering development of market solutions such as satellite spot-beam technology, end-to-end MPEG4 video delivery, placeshifting, whole home DVR sharing and VSAT data network management have consistently set new standards in the industry.

Summary:

EchoStar is seeking a Principal Oracle EDI B2B Developer for our Englewood, CO headquarters who can be part of a large team in a dynamic and changing environment. Projects include a full lifecycle design, development, strong J2EE implementation maintenance for mission critical applications.

The Principal EDI B2B Developer reports directly into the Manager of Technical Development for the duration of the project. He will collaborate with a team of senior developers, and solution architects in defining the overall EDI/SOA solution and integration strategy for a brand new program area. The solution requires information exchange and implementation of distributed business processes with multiple external organizations using best of breed EDI/SOA components (ESB, Business Rules, Workflow, Messaging, etc.). The candidate will work with several partners and sub-contractors to maintain one cohesive architecture and develop and implement EDI/OA governance processes, design review process and code/software auditing processes. The candidate will be responsible for the design and implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture requiring information exchange and distributed business processes with multiple external organizations. The candidate should feel very comfortable rationalizing architecture decisions in clear/objective manner for the client and should have ability to work in a multi-vendor environment and achieve broad consensus.


Responsibilities:
              Provide expertise in the design, development and implementation of EDI integrations and software solutions that meet the business requirements of the organization.
               Develop, test, and install electronic transaction interfaces with customers, suppliers and 3rd party business partners. Interfaces include all EDI transactions and XML messages.
               Develop, test, and maintain EDI process flows, document maps and configurations.
              Work closely with multiple Oracle and SAP teams on EDI/SOA implementations.
               Assist in establishing processes for EDI/SOA activities within global environment.
              Work closely with internal and external customers, EDI partners, and other IT personnel to identify process gaps and define potential solutions.
               Responsible for creating application architecture and design documents in compliance with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
              Work with team of developers to develop a mission-critical, maintainable and achievable SOA based enterprise architecture.
               Architect with a balanced view of all key architectural quality metrics such as performance, scalability, reliability, availability, agility and interoperability. Develop pragmatic solution that balances strategic and tactical concerns.
               Create innovative and efficient technical applications by identifying products and/or technologies that need to be researched.
               Hands-on implementation of multiple JEE and SOA solution components, design and development of frameworks for multiple teams.
               Design and implement a reusable architectural framework and processes that enables various development teams to focus on creating business logic and not spend time on plumbing.
               Provide technical guidance to all members of the SOA Center of Excellence;
             Act as task leader for the implementation of the Oracle SOA Suite;
               Develop and implement SOA Governance plan



Basic Requirements:
               A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related degree
               4+ years of experience architecting, leading complicated integration and/or SOA based projects.
               5+ years of experience on B2B Integration with 2-3 years on Gentran Integration Suite (GIS) or Sterling Integrator (SI), GPM, BPML, trading partner configuration, map development and EDI standards
               3 + years of experience working with EDI systems design, development, and analysis, including knowledge of trading partner/scheduling agreements and configurations, mapping, connectivity (VAN, AS2, HTTP),ANSIX12 and XML standards.



Preferred Qualifications:
              Experience in GIS/SI patch installation and administration.
               Experience in all B2B protocols and web services.
               Strong knowledge of UNIX (Solaris, HPUX) and LINUX and shell script design.
               Strong Knowledge of Enterprise Application and Business-to-Business Integration.
               Experience in XPATH, XML, XSL, BPML, BPEL.
               Experience working with document transfer protocols: Connect:Direct, Connect:Enterprise, FTP/FTPs, HTTP/HTTPs, SFTP, SMTP,SOAP, SwiftNet, WebServices, AS1, AS2, AS3, etc.
               Experience configuring and managing IBM STERLING B2B INTEGRATOR in a High Availability Configuration.
               Experience with Java / J2EE preferred.
               Experience working with Oracle, SQL Server, mySQL databases: database sizing, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and query design.
               Experience with Oracle SOA design and implementation.
               Hands-on experience as solution architecture for large-scale projects and communication skills to articulate, rationalize and document architectural decisions.
               Solid experience with “loosely-coupled” SOA architecture components including Enterprise Service Bus, Service Registry and Service Repository based architectures. Knowledge of service composition and orchestrations using ESB, BPEL and workflow components.
               Hands-on ability provisioning and integrating services using Enterprise Service Bus using a middleware SOA Platform like JBoss SOA Platform, Oracle SOA platform, etc. Ability to leverage ESB for service composition, mediation, routing and other cross-cutting concerns.
               Experience with Web Services, REST, WS-I compliance, WS-* standards, WS-Security standards, XML Schema authorizing, XPath, XQuery. Real world experience with messaging (JMS, MQ, Active MQ, etc.).
               Collaborative leadership skills, strong communications and team-building skills that optimize contributions from diverse, highly-skilled professionals. Ability to consider various view points and working with Technical manager to determine best solution.
               Solid understanding of deployment and infrastructure architecture principles and how to deploy SOA based architecture in a virtualized/cloud environment and design for scalability, performance and availability.
               Experience with portal products like JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, Oracle Web Center or equivalent desirable. Ability to architect flexible and extensible Web UI
               Strong experience with Oracle products such as WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA Suite 11g including the development and design of Mediator, Rules Engine and Proxy Services components.
               Strong troubleshooting and administrative skills using WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA Suite 11g and Oracle Service Bus 11g in a highly available environment.
               Good Linux operating system skills

Benefits:
Medical, Health Savings Account, Dental and VBision Insurance
Flexible spending options and Employee Assistance Plan
401(k) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tuition Reimbursement
Employee Referral Program
Training Opportunities
FREE DISH Network Satellite TV System and Programming
FREE Hughes Network Service
40% Discounts on Sling technology and service
Corporate discounts for retail and personal travel
Opportunity for a level of responsibility that could take years to reach in other companies

EchoStar is an EEO employer (M/F/D/V)

Tuesday, October 08, 2013

VMware - Technical Support Engineer

About Us
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable our more than 500,000 enterprise and mid-market customers to thrive in the Cloud Era by simplifying, automating and transforming the way they build, deliver and consume IT. We enable people and organizations by radically simplifying IT through software virtualization with a focus on three core missions: End-User Computing (EUC), Hybrid Cloud and Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). Join our community – instigators of innovation and transformers of technology – as we envision and create what’s next in IT. Get connected to an engine of opportunity fueled by the transformative products and solutions we bring to market, the passion and trust we inspire in our customers, and our collaborative drive to imagine, define and deliver the future of IT. With 13,000+ employees and 50+ locations worldwide, we are passionately driven to make an impact while contributing back to the community. Learn more at vmware.com/careers today!
 

Why Work for Our Division 
The VMware Global Support Services (GSS) team supports over 250,000 companies running VMware in over 100 different countries. GSS provides time-zone optimized coverage throughout five support centers globally. The GSS team supports the entire suite of VMware products for global customers and partners and participates in developing new products and new versions of current products. GSS team members also participate in product delivery strategy, product documentation, discussion forums with customers, and expert documents publishing. A commitment to excellence and customer advocacy pervades the GSS team, and the work environment fosters intellectual stimulation through exchanges with internal and external customers. The VMware GSS team members are the best of the best” supporting business-critical applications in a virtual infrastructure.
 

Job Description
Engineers support over 250,000 companies running VMware servers in over 100 different countries. They support the entire suite of VMware products for global customers and partners, interfacing with them via the phone, email, and web. They resolve customer technical issues through diligent research, reproduction and troubleshooting by utilizing system administration, networking and storage skills. Managers of Technical Support are responsible for managing highly skilled technical support teams. They work closely with the Senior Management team, Engineering, Sales, and Product Marketing teams to ensure that VMware is delivering overall superior service and support to our customers.

Responsibilities
- Respond to customer inquiries, primarily by telephone and e-mail
- Work flexible schedules, which may include evenings, weekends or holidays
- Resolve customer technical issues through diligent research, reproduction, and troubleshooting
- Work directly with other technical support staff, quality assurance, engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and administration to resolve problems
- Document all technical inquiries, develop and review content for knowledgebase
- Help test alpha and beta products
Requirements
- Experience with Advance PC Hardware Setup
- Good understanding of Server PC Architecture.
- Experience resolving system crashes and hardware related issues.
- Experience with trouble-shooting hardware related issues.
- Understanding of Storage Hardware Architecture (Partitioning / RAID)
- Excellent knowledge of Operating Systems including (Windows 2000, 2003, XP / Linux, Unix Solaris or FreeBSD, Novell Netware)
- Experience in providing Linux/UNIX and Windows technical support to customers.
- Experience Troubleshooting 3rd party application integration.
- Experience Performance troubleshooting.
- Minimum of 2-3 years experience in software and hardware combined
- Working knowledge of Microsoft (Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98, 95, and 3.1; MS DOS), plus x86 platforms, devices, and networking
- Basic understanding of TCP/IP networking stack
- Experience in an enterprise LAN/WAN environment
- Experience with Windows and Linux Networking
- Experience with administering 802.1q
- Experience trouble-shooting Firewall technology (Pix, CheckPoint)
- Ability to look at and analyze network traces. (ethereal, wireshark, tcpdump)
- Experience with File System Architecture (FAT, EXT2/3, UFS)
- Good working knowledge of Networking.
- Experience working within an Enterprise IT Support environment.
- Experience trouble-shooting / administrating SAN environments (Fiber Channel or iSCSI)
- Excellent understanding of Network Attached Storage (NAS)
o Good working knowledge of NAS protocols (CIFS, SMB, NFS)
- Experience configuring SAN Storage Arrays.
- Experience with Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS)
- Working knowledge of backup software (EMC Networker, VERITAS Net Backup, Tivoli Storage Manager, Backup Exec)
- Working knowledge of backup hardware:
o Tape and Disk
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Case/Customer Management skills
- Strong in spoken and written Spanish or Portuguese and English
- Standard hours of operation in the Broomfield center are Monday – Friday 10 am – 7 pm.
- Standard hours of operation in the Burlington center are Monday – Friday 9 am – 5:30 pm.
- Working shifts for both centers include; Monday – Friday (40hrs), Sunday – Wednesday and Wednesday - Saturday (12 hrs.-12 hrs. -12 hrs. -4hrs/ 10 hrs. -10 hrs. -10 hrs. -10hrs/ 12 hrs. -10 hrs. -10 hrs. -8 hrs.)
- B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or equivalent work experience
Highly Preferred Skills
- Experience with ESX Server and/or Virtual Center and/or other VMware products
- Experience with Cisco or Network hardware manufactured products
- Experience with Server Hardware (Dell, HP, IBM, etc)
- Experience with switch and routing protocols (CCNA)
- Experience with VCB (VMware Consolidated Backup)
- Experience with VERITAS Cluster or EMC AutoStart
- Knowledge of remote storage mirroring (EMC MirrorView or SRDF)
- Experience with data recovery
- Experience with scripting and programming (C, C++, Perl, Python and Intel Assembly)
- Basic understanding of TCP/IP networking stack
- Experience in an enterprise LAN/WAN environment
- Experience with Windows and Linux Networking
- Ability to look at and analyze network traces. (ethereal, wireshark, tcpdump)
- Experience trouble-shooting / administrating SAN environments (Fiber Channel or iSCSI)
- Excellent understanding of Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- Good working knowledge of NAS protocols (CIFS, SMB, NFS)
- Understanding of Storage Hardware Architecture (Partitioning / RAID)
- Experience configuring SAN Storage Arrays.
- Experience with SQL Server or Oracle dB (DBA)
- Background in System Administration
 

Location Broomfield, CO, US
 

Requisition Number 45362BR
 

EEO Statement 
VMware is an equal opportunity employer committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all applicants and employees. Equal opportunity and consideration are afforded to all qualified applicants and employees in personnel actions, which include: recruiting and hiring, selection for training, promotion, rates of pay or other compensation, transfer, discipline, demotion, layoff or termination. VMware does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, family medical history or genetic information, citizenship, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, military status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. VMware also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees consistent with applicable law. Further, it is the policy of VMware to maintain a working environment free of all forms of harassment.

Monday, October 07, 2013

LogRhythm - Systems Engineer

Overview:

LogRhythm is looking for a Security and Systems Engineer who will operate in a Sales Operations role focusing on the engineering support required to maximize and extend our continued success as
a leader in the SIEM market. The Security and Systems Engineer will be directly supporting LogRhythm’s Sales Engineering Team efforts for the Americas.  This is a critical role contributing to the overall success of LogRhythm.

Responsibilities:
    * Sandbox and CxC Systems Administration responsibility.
    * Maintenance and Systems support for CxC and Sandbox systems including 2 Production Usage, LogRhythm Network Monitor, and LogRhythm environments supporting Americas Channel,  Prospects, and the SE Team for product demonstrations and product
evaluations.
    * 3rd Party Systems Integration Support
    * Adding, Integrating, Maintaining, Decommissioning, etc. partner products into the Sandbox and CxC environment (e.g. FireEye, PAN, Qualys, Solera, VMWare, etc.)
    * Use Case Development and Integration
    * Collaboration with LogRhythm LABS Research team, Engineering, and Product Management, to incorporate demonstrable and compelling use cases in support of the Sandbox and CxC environments.
    * Recording the Use Cases for vignettes and training purposes
    * Documentation
    * LRU – LogRhythm University
    * Creation, Maintenance, and Support of a new LRU environment supporting SE efforts for new SE training (A true ‘Sandbox’ for building LR installations, calibrating, testing, etc.), existing SE training, testing (e.g. prospect requests to demo specific functions not available in the CxC/Sandbox w/o impacting production environments)

Qualifications:

Who You Are

    * Technically Strong: You have 2 - 5 years of experience with:
    * Installing and working with Windows Servers and AD Environments
    * Scripting and/or Software development (powershell, shell* scripting, regex, java, etc.)
    * Installing and configuring *NIX based applications
    * Software/Application installation, integration, and configuration
    * Windows SQL Server 2005/2008
    * Windows Domain Security and Audit Policies
    * Configuring routers, switches, and firewall devices
    * Communication: You have strong communication and technical writing skills.
    * Self-Starter: You can stand on your own as the point person while resolving an issue.
    * Efficient: You ensure projects are completed on-time, with the highest expertise.
    * Collaborative: You enjoy working in the ultimate cross functional environment, learning from others and collectively sharing accomplishments with others.
    * Ambitious: You wouldn’t mind joining and growing within an awesome company where you are making a real difference.
    * Degreed: You have relevant education that lines up with the work.

Virtela - Oracle Database Administrator

Company Overview
Virtela is the world's largest independent managed network, security, and cloud services company. Virtela offers an award-winning suite of services - including managed networks, security, application acceleration, and IT infrastructure management - to market-leading companies around the world, such as Kraft, Honeywell, HanesBrand, Paramount Pictures, Red Hat and IBM. The company is known for its outstanding service innovations and customer support, which have been recognized by 40 awards during 2010 and 2011. Virtela offers unparalleled geographic reach to more than 190 countries through its partnership with more than 750 carriers. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado with globally distributed Network Operations Centers in US, India, and the Philippines.
Virtela offers an attractive compensation and competitive benefits packages ranging from health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401(K) with employer match, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, as well as company paid holidays and generous paid time off.

Job Description
Virtela has multiple openings - DBA, Senior DBA and Team Lead DBA Oracle DBA will serve as systems architect, technical leader and key individual contributor for the overall OSS/BSS systems delivery and operational support team.
Qualifications: Experience working for a Telco/ISP/Datacenter Hosting, Managed Services Company, or similar discipline. Experienced Oracle DBA, with architecture, operational support, and data warehouse and BI reporting Experience working with Oracle Support Services familiar with Oracle's escalation procedures. Experience with 24x7 support of production database environments - complex query performance tuning (of existing applications), Hardware and Software specification and design. Experience in designing, implementing, and verification of disaster recovery (DR) strategies.
Role/Experience: 6 to 12 years DBA experience with database technology and systems architectures Demonstrated leadership and mentoring developers and other DBAs Establishing and documenting database architectural guidelines, establishing operational best practices Full lifecycle application development support - designing and debugging applications DB functionality Managing development projects, assisting Application Developers to architect and build new applications Ability to work directly with Applications Developers to design, build and support new systems Data modeling and Oracle database/warehouse design Demonstrated programming experience in PL/SQL, Perl / Python, and/or UNIX scripting Strong skills with SQL tuning and PL/SQL debugging/tuning, ETL and Integrations Demonstrated experience with Oracle tools including 3rd party integration products Act and the SME for all Business Reporting and use of the OBIEE environment Managing data security within the DB and on behalf of the Application Capacity analysis of Oracle Databases and the Data warehouse Monitoring Oracle trends for hardware usage and user load Install, patch and maintain all Oracle software Performance Tuning all Oracle instance components including SQL and PL/SQL Review and approve all production schema changes and database design Design and maintain the backup & recovery system Implement Oracle failover technology within the DR facility Applications and languages include: Siebel and Oracle E-Business Suite PL/SQL, Java, Perl, Shell Scripting, JavaScript, HTML, XML, and SQL. Target Operating Systems include: Solaris, Linux, and Microsoft Windows based platforms. Target Databases include: Oracle, MySQL, BI Tools - Discoverer and OBIEE Experience with ITIL discipline

Education: BS Degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience desirable
To be considered for this position, please submit your resume to with the name of the position in the subject line.

Zoll - Software Development Manager

The Software Development Manager is responsible for leading a team of senior .NET developers/QA in the design, development, and testing of our enterprise solutions for EMS and fire dispatch.

Responsibilities:

-Collaborate with team members on product architecture
-Establish and assign work assignments and deadlines
-Issue directives to QA personnel to ensure product quality
-Collaborate with other software development managers on overall R&D protocols
-Work closely with Product Managers / Owners to ensure that product fulfills its business use case
-Ultimate responsibility for on time, on budget delivery of finished releases
-Management of team members (hire/fire, reviews, development, etc)
-Continuous improvement of Scrum and Agile practices

Job Requirements:

-5+ years experience as a software engineer in a Microsoft .NET environment
-2+ years experience with Agile / Scrum development processes
-Experience developing mission critical applications under deadline
-Track record of delivering high quality products
-Experience working with SQL or Oracle back-ends
-3 - 5 years employee management experience
-Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
-Strong leadership skills
-Highly collaborative with technical and non-technical individuals
-Out of the box thinker
-Dedicated to the use of technology to solve business problem

Top 10 Reasons to Work for ZOLL
Meaningful Work - we develop software solutions that help save lives!
Opportunity for professional growth and advancement
Fun, friendly, professional team environment
Financially stable, growing company
Lots of company activities and events
Great benefits
Casual, flexible work environment
Responsible, stable, and personable management team
You're not just a # - ZOLL values employees and their opinions
The best of both worlds - a small company culture with big company backing

Sunday, October 06, 2013

MapQuest - Engineer

Moving the business beyond just maps and directions, MapQuest is
looking to transform itself and retake its rightful place as an
industry leader in local discovery and travel. In order to finish
the transformation to a fast-paced innovation machine, MapQuest
is looking to grow and expand the mobile engineering group with
the addition of a Senior Software Mobile Engineer.

About us:

We love to invent experiences that surprise and delight our
customers as we help them along their daily travels. We solve
interesting, real-world challenges in geospatial, navigation,
travel, local search, advertising, LBS, and micro-transactions on
all the major mobile device platforms of every form-factor. We
work as a team grow as a team, and succeed as a team.

About you:

You're an engineer looking for a career where you'll be able to
build, to deliver, and to impress. You are passionate about
mobile computing and want to disrupt the world of application
development on mobile devices. You want to build rich customer
experiences, utilizing to the fullest possible extent all the
cool hardware on the device. You want to work on projects that
require creative thinking and deep understanding of the problem
space. You challenge yourself and others to constantly come up
with better solutions. You're a thought leader, but you don't
just know how to solve the problem, you prove it by building the
solution. Last but not the least; you have a high bar for code
quality and passion for design and architecture.

Basic Qualifications

-        Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, or
Electrical Engineering

-        5+ years professional experience in software development

-        3+ experience building complex mobile applications on
Android , iOS, or Windows Phone platforms that have been
successfully delivered to customers

-        Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals –
object oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design,
problem solving, and complexity analysis

-        Proficiency in at least one modern object oriented
language such as Objective-C, Java or C#

-        Proven track record of delivery

-        Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills

-        Knowledge of professional software engineering practices
for the full software development life cycle including coding
standards, code reviews, source control management, build
processes, testing, and operations

Preferred Qualifications

-        7+ years of industry experience

-        Experience delivering low-latency,
consumer-internet-scale web services operating in a 24x7
environment

-        Experience with Agile (SCRUM, Kanban, XP), OO modeling,
web services, UNIX, middleware and databases

-        Experience mentoring and training the engineering
community on complex technical issues

If interested please send resume to lalitha.ganesan@teamaol.com