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, mobile device management and IT infrastructure management to the fastest growing companies around the world, such as Kraft, Honeywell, HanesBrands, Paramount Pictures, Red Hat and IBM.

The company is known for its outstanding service innovations and customer support, which have been recognized by more than 50 awards in the last two years alone. Virtela offers unparalleled geographic reach to more than 190 countries through its partnership with more than 1,000 service providers. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado with globally distributed Network Operations Centers in the U.S., 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.

Pre-Requisite

• 12+ years of experience in software product development (design, coding, system engineering)
• 5+ years leading the software development team
• Demonstrated experience building highly scalable, distributed software systems
• Extensive knowledge of Linux operating system & programming.   Experience with Puppet and Chef
• Experience with NoSQL Databases; Cassandra, HBase, and MongoDB preferred
• Good Virtualization knowledge on Xeon, Linux/KVM, and VMware vSphere.
• Experience building cloud based systems and API development
• Big plus Knowledge of basic network concepts, IP, Security Services and Ethernet.
• Experience with server virtualization and or container technology is highly desirable
• Experience with at least 2 of the following programming languages – Java, Python, Ruby, & Erlang.
• Visionary, team leader and work independently without needing lot of input, self-driven.
• Experience with contributing to open source code is a plus

Responsibilities

The opportunity for a highly energetic individual to come as manager of highly skills development team, to driving the innovation in Cloud related technologies like SDN and NFV. The right candidate will be responsible leading the team in the development of next phase of Virtela next generation service delivery platform. This job requires, leading the team/projects 40%, hands on coding role 20% and technical vision/design 40% of time.

• Design and implement production grade software at cloud scale
• Drive and partner the QE/Test, Operations and Product management to ensure high quality releases per schedule
• Evaluate technical aspects of competing products
• Propose and help build proof of concepts, prototype
• Provide estimates for development effort

Experience

12+ years

Education

Any Graduate

Virtela is part of the NTT Group, the world’s largest telecom company, ranked #32 on the Global Fortune 500. Virtela is the smart alternative for enterprise networking and virtualized IT services and offers the opportunity to work with the most advanced technologies and talent around the world in serving our global enterprise clients. Virtela have been recognized by 100+ awards.

Are you passionate about solving challenging problems, making a real impact and building something big? Join the Virtela team today.

Job Description

• Manage Global team of Hypervisor System Engineers
• Work with internal and external entities to maintain network stability, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and minimize risk.
• Help building internal-use tools for monitoring and management of server and network components.
• Monitor vendors’ release notes and plan necessary upgrades and patches as required.
• Draft or modify Policies and Procedures Maintain Control of service/network events.
• Provide point of Escalation for Customer and network related issues.
• Develop employee skills and expertise; maintain a highly motivated, well-trained, innovative, and empowered workforce
• Help drive the innovation and evolution of Virtela systems and tools
• Participate in network design and strategy forums, set directions and provide recommendation.
• Will work with engineering team for assessing server hardware and software requirements related to various application vendor evaluations. Help development team in support of orchestration solutions like Cloud stack Open stack

Desired Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of expirence in managing the infrastructure in a carrier or major enterprise network
• Ability to communicate well with the client and business unit leads.
• Ability to set direction and prioritize work and resources based business and client needs.
• Develop and implement standards and procedures as it relates to server infrastructure.
• Knowledge and exposure to desktop / server and application virtualization (Hypervisor exposure such as KVM, XenServer, VMware ESX) Hands on experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios
• Advanced troubleshooting skills and methodologies in Network, Server, Device, Computer and Web server devices.
• Strong knowledge of networking (VLANs, L2/L3 switches, routing, VPN and firewalls), Networking skill at CCNP level in regard to the Network build outs.
• Experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Virtualization a plus. Strong experience with Linux/Unix Administration.
• Hands on knowledge on Cloud Stack, Citrix Xencenter, or KVM a plus.
• Hands on opensource software, such as Openstack, Opendaylight a plus
• Bachelors degree in Math, Computer Science, or Engieering

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, mobile device management and IT infrastructure management to the fastest growing companies around the world, such as Kraft, Honeywell, HanesBrands, Paramount Pictures, Red Hat and IBM.

The company is known for its outstanding service innovations and customer support, which have been recognized by more than 50 awards in the last two years alone. Virtela offers unparalleled geographic reach to more than 190 countries through its partnership with more than 1,000 service providers. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado with globally distributed Network Operations Centers in the U.S., 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.

Pre-Requisite

• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong experience with Linux/Unix Administration.
• Server management experience.
• Experience in server Virtualization techniques required (VMware / Xen / KVM).
• Experience in operating systems (Windows, Linux), network basics, SAN network and disk array devices.
• Experience with server security, upgrades and deployment of security and operating system patches.
• Experience in one or more scripting languages desired.
• Good analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to handle and manage multiple requirements and projects with minimal oversight.
• Ability to effectively present information, write case studies and solve practical problems of customer and internal Sales team.
• Bachelors degree and 5+ years experience (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Implement cloud based services on virtualized platforms.
• Responsible for assessing server hardware and software requirements related to various application vendor evaluations.
• Provide operational guidance for infrastructure design.
• Responsible for capacity planning, functionality testing, and load testing of virtualized computing environments.
• Documentation as well as training of other organizations and ongoing server solution support.
• Build internal-use tools for monitoring and management of server and network components.
• Monitor vendors’ release notes and plan necessary upgrades and patches as required.
• Product testing and set up POC (proof of concept) testing.
• Deal with unpredictable situations where limited standardizations exists.

Training and Certification Required

Hyervisor vendor certification (VMWare, Linux, KVM, Citrix, Windows) a plus.

Experience

Minimum of 5 years

Education

Any graduate

Technical and Other Skills

• Ability to communicate well with the client and business unit leads.
• Ability to set direction and prioritize work and resources based business and client needs.
• Participate in network design and strategy forums, set directions and provide recommendation.
• Develop and implement standards and procedures as it relates to server infrastructure.
• Experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Virtualization a plus.
• Hands on knowledge on Cloud Stack or Citrix Xencenter a plus.
• Hands on opensource software, such as Openstack, Opendaylight a plus

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, mobile device management and IT infrastructure management to the fastest growing companies around the world, such as Kraft, Honeywell, HanesBrands, Paramount Pictures, Red Hat and IBM.

The company is known for its outstanding service innovations and customer support, which have been recognized by more than 50 awards in the last two years alone. Virtela offers unparalleled geographic reach to more than 190 countries through its partnership with more than 1,000 service providers. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado with globally distributed Network Operations Centers in the U.S., 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.

Location: Mumbai, India

Pre-Requisites

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• General Networking product and technology knowledge is a must, Juniper knowledge is a plus
• Strong knowledge in routing and switching protocol (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPL)
• Strong knowledge of LAN technologies (LAN design standards and best practices)
• Basic security standards, design and best practices

Primary Responsibilities

• Conducts network architecture design, feasibility and cost studies
• Designs, analyzes, plans, and modifies network components supporting customer communication implementation activities
• Proposes and implements system enhancements (software and hardware updates) that will improve the performance and reliability of the system
• Operates data communication systems, including LANs and WANs
• Plans, designs and implements networked systems, including configurations, and supports/troubleshoots network problems
• Develops and evaluates network performance criteria and measurement methods
• Prepares the analysis of the capacity needs for network infrastructure

Technical and Other Skills

• Ability to communicate well with the client and business unit leads
• Ability to set direction and prioritize work and resources based business and client needs
• Participate in network design and strategy forums, set directions and provide recommendation
• Develop and implement standards and procedures as it relates to Network Technologies and Infrastructure
• Accountable for product requirement analysis, technical solutions and implementation strategy
• Some knowledge of VoIP, Video and content delivery
• Experience with scripting a plus
• Prior experience with IPv6 a plus
• Experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Virtualization a plus

Trainings/Certifications Required

• Cisco or Juniper ‘E’ level certification is a plus
• Additional security and VoIP certification is a plus
• Juniper, M-series, T-series
• JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP, JNCIE

Experience

• A minimum relevant experience of 7 to 10 years would be required for this position

Education

• Bachelor degree in related field preferred, or equivalent experience

If you have worked as a provisioning engineer in a telecom company, have been a part of data center installs and build-outs and know how to run large scale projects this is the right career role for you.

Day One tasks include:

• Remotely supporting installs in POPs across the world.
• Tracking and documenting use of resources in the POPs.
• Support finance and billing teams.
• Work with circuit provisioning team and with access vendors to deliver new circuits or access trunks.

Beyond the ‘Day One’ tasks, the long term projects include:

• Forecast the core capacity requirements in an environment when demand is constantly growing.
• Track a global backbone to manage costs without compromising on industry best SLAs.
• Prepare a monthly analysis package that identifies what really is happing in the backbone.
• Forecast hardware requirements and scale up.
• Manage space and power requirements.
• Work with a team of highly technical engineers and bridge the gap between engineering and procurement
• Build tools that help the company sales and executive teams know what resources are readily available to support new demand.

Desired Skills

To accomplish what this role needs you need hand-on knowledge of telecom industry:

• Strong background in telecom circuits and access technology.
• Hand on experience with data center management and terminology.
• A working understanding routers and switching hardware.
• Understanding of telecom SLAs and contracts.

But beyond this, you need to be:

• A strong communicator. You will be talking to people all over the world.
• Obsessive about documentation.
• Analytical and know how to work with numbers.
• Good at presenting information to people across verticles.
• Ready to meet any challenge that comes in the way.

Education and Experience

A graduate degree with at least 5 years of experience in the telecom industry provisioning circuits and data center mangement will be required. CCNA level certification and experience with cost management and reporting will accelerate your effectiveness and impact.