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

NTT Group has 200,000+ employees around the world. 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.

Learn more about Virtela at, www.nttglobal.net

Are you passionate about solving challenging problems, making a real impact and building something big? Are you someone who is looking to make a significant positive impact in your role as a UNIX Systems Engineer?

Virtela just might have a position for you! We’re looking for a razor sharp engineer to help transform how to support enterprise networking and security. If you’re a systems infrastructure fanatic who tirelessly fine-tunes their craft and seeks to improve your ideas based on what applications and end-users really want and need – it’s time to apply!

Required Skills

• 5+ years authoring Linux scripts and tools
• Expert level programming with Perl and Python.
• C, Java, and Ruby experience are a plus.
• Strong MySQL experience. Oracle and PostgreSQL experience are a plus.
• SNMP, MRTG, cricket, or rrdtool experience. Netflow monitoring experience is a plus
• Strong CentOS and/or Ubuntu experience
• Switch, router, and firewall management experience.
• Strong Subversion and/or Git VCS skills

Experience Required

• Hands on experience supporting Enterprise applications.
• Experience authoring threaded code
• Highly self-motivated. Willingness to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion
• Strong skills for automation of repeatable work
• Strong documentation skills
• Ability to perform 24x7x365 on-call duty with other systems team members

Key Responsibilities

• Architecting and authoring highly scalable code to monitor and poll network devices
• Authoring, redesigning, and optimizing application and backend scripts to improve scalability
• Manage and develop interfaces for Big Data databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra
• Full software lifecycle support. Concept, design systems architecture, perform development, Ops Support
• Lead troubleshooting and performance tuning of applications and MySQL databases
• Automating and improving existing processes
• Acting as a key member (support/consult/lead) on various application’s BSS/OSS projects
• Systems planning, configuring systems, installing software, providing guidance in technical meetings, defining standards, assisting with research and design for architectural issues, assisting/providing status updates, attending project meetings and implementation support of new applications

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

NTT Group has 200,000+ employees around the world. 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.

Learn more about Virtela at, www.nttglobal.net

Are you passionate about solving challenging problems, making a real impact and building something big? Are you someone who is looking to make a significant positive impact in your role as a UNIX Systems Engineer?

Virtela just might have a position for you! We’re looking for a razor sharp engineer to help transform how to support enterprise networking and security. If you’re a systems infrastructure fanatic who tirelessly fine-tunes their craft and seeks to improve your ideas based on what applications and end-users really want and need – it’s time to apply!

Required Skills

• 5+ years of Linux administration experience
• Mastery of GNU/Linux (Redhat/CentOS/Ubuntu), expertise with Logical Volume Managers, network troubleshooting, bash, Python and/or Perl programming
• Superior puppet skills. Experience writing manifests is required. Hiera, PuppetDB, and Puppet 3 experience are a plus.
• Strong experience with the VMware, KVM, and VirtualBox hypervisors
• Tools with emphasis on Syslog, SMTP, HTTP, LDAP, Radius, SQL, and DNS.

Preferred Skills

• Strong SAN experience. iSCSI experience is a plus.
• Load balancer experience a plus
• Vagrant experience is a plus
• RPM and DEB file generation experience a plus
• OpenStack and CEPH distributed file system experience is a plus.
• Cobbler, PXE boot, Kickstart and Spacewalk/RHN Satellite server experience a plus
• Cisco/ Dell / IBM / Sun / Blade hardware experience is a plus
• Linux cluster (heartbeat, pacemaker, corosync) experience a plus

Experience Required

• Strong customer service attitude with superior people skills
• Able to lead troubleshooting, optimization, and performance tuning of applications, databases, and Unix systems
• Strong knowledge of Internet services, systems monitoring and management, and open source
• Strong documentation skills
• Understanding of Systems design and the OSI model
• Strong general automation skills. This includes scripting, automated monitoring, and automated VM deployments
• Ability to perform 24x7x365 on-call duty with other systems team members

Key Responsibilities

• Managing development, testing and production VM and physical server environments
• Automating and improving existing processes
• Systems planning, configuring systems, installing software, providing guidance in technical meetings, defining standards, assisting with research and design for architectural issues, assisting/providing status updates, attending project meetings and implementation support of new applications
• Supporting all of Virtela’s Enterprise applications.
• Support primarily developers, applications integrators, DBAs, Global Operations Centers, and numerous scripting languages (Bash, Perl, Ruby, and Python)
• Acting as a key member (support/consult/lead) on various application’s BSS/OSS projects
• Managing capacity, designing systems architecture and performing technology refreshes

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

NTT Group has 200,000+ employees around the world. 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.

Learn more about Virtela at, www.nttglobal.net

Are you passionate about solving challenging problems, making a real impact and building something big? Are you someone who is looking to make a significant positive impact in your role as a UNIX Systems Engineer?

Virtela just might have a position for you! We’re looking for a razor sharp engineer to help transform how to support enterprise networking and security. If you’re a systems infrastructure fanatic who tirelessly fine-tunes their craft and seeks to improve your ideas based on what applications and end-users really want and need – it’s time to apply!

Required Skills

• 3+ years managing Linux based monitoring solutions along with Security monitoring experience
• Expert level experience with Zabbix and Nagios
• Expert level programming with Bash as well as Perl or Python
• Strong CentOS and/or Ubuntu experience
• Strong MySQL experience or any databases

Preferred Skills

• Networking background is a plus
• Puppet experience is a plus

Experience Required

• Hands on experience supporting Enterprise applications.
• Strong skills for automation of repeatable work
• Knowledge of Internet services, systems monitoring and management, and open source tools with emphasis on Syslog, SMTP, HTTP, LDAP, Radius, SQL, DNS, Nagios, and Zabbix.
• Strong documentation skills
• Understanding of Systems design and the OSI model
• Ability to perform 24x7x365 on-call duty with other systems team members

Key Responsibilities

• Management of Virtela’s Zabbix and Nagios monitoring solutions
• Authoring scripts to monitor resource utilization, availability, and functionality of custom applications
• Automating monitoring of new servers and devices
• Scaling and distributing monitoring solution geographically
• Scanning and monitoring for security vulnerabilities. Working with application and device owners to ensure resolution of identified problems.
• Ensuring a minimal amount of false positive alerts
• Configuring and managing alert escalations, including SMS and notifications to management
• Working with developers and operations personnel to ensure adequate monitoring and proper alerting is in place
• Acting as a key member (support/consult/lead) on various application’s BSS/OSS projects
• Systems planning, configuring systems, installing software, providing guidance in technical meetings, defining standards, assisting with research and design for architectural issues, assisting/providing status updates, attending project meetings and implementation support of new applications

Virtela (virtela.net) 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, 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. Virtela is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse workforce.

Pre-Requisite

• 2- 8 years of experience in Application Testing and Automation.
• Excellent automation testing experience in Selenium using Java or Python scripts.
• Extensive experience designing test cases and writing queries to verify backend functionality.
• Good understanding of Database concepts along with SQL Queries is a must.
• Knowledge of other industry wide used tools would be a plus (QTP / Quality Centre / Test Director)
• Moderate knowledge of HTML and/or PHP would be nice to have.

Candidates with telecom background will have added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Analysing system requirements and technical specifications to create and execute test cases.
• Execution of detailed test plans and scripts to verify functionality for large business initiatives including progress reporting, defect tracking and risk assessment.
• Plan, write, maintain test cases / data to execute testing within Web Services environment for Product Testing.
• Validation of data loads from Source system (flat files, Messages).
• Assist business users in defining User Acceptance Testing, and driving defect resolution.
• Actively participate in walk-through, inspection, review and user group / project meetings.
• Work with business users, system analysts, designers and programmers to create and analyse various required project documents.
• Participate in production implementation verification and being accountable for validating system quality Plan, document, evaluate and track testing results to ensure system applications are free from defects.
• Communicate and interact with appropriate areas on problems, changes and enhancements that may impact data, workflow and /or functionality within Information Technology software.
• Comply with SDLC standards and follow strategies, plans and process to ensure Quality processes.
• Coordination of Quality Assurance offshore / onshore team efforts for the assigned initiative.
• Work concurrently on several projects, each with specific instructions that may differ from project to project

Experience

• A minimum relevant experience of 2 to 8 years would be required for this position.

Education

• Bachelor degree in related field preferred, or equivalent experience.

Technical and Other Skills

• Selenium using Java or Python Scripts, SQL

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

• Extensive experience handling large databases
• Experience in Oracle database installation, upgradation, patching and environment setup (Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g)
• Hands-on experience with oracle stored procedure and functions
• Experience in design and implementation of database development, preferably Oracle, as well as experience with related technologies, applications, and processes
• Hands-on experience using software development tools
• Hands-on experience with data architecture design, database design, data analysis, and data modeling
• Hands-on experience with database and SQL performance tuning
• Experience with setting up development environments, architecture standards, and development direction
• Experience in developing products or prototypes using off the shelf components or frameworks
• Strong understanding of software integration and interoperability technologies
• Knowledge on UNIX shell scripting
• Well versed with PL SQL, SQL Plus, Discover, Oracle Enterprise Manager and TOAD
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, and logical skills
• Strong communications, writing, and presentation skills
• Must thrive in a fast-paced, multi tasking, and results focused environment.

Responsibilities

• Creates and maintains all databases required for development, testing and production usage
• Performs the capacity planning required to create and maintain the databases.
• The DBA works closely with system administration staff for applications or tools in addition to the Oracle Databases
• Performs ongoing tuning of the database instances
• Install new versions of the Oracle RDBMS and its tools and any other toolsthat access the Oracle database
• Plans and implements backup and recovery of the Oracle database
• Controls migrations of programs, database changes, reference data changes and menu changes through the development life cycle
• Implements and enforces security for all of the Oracle Databases
• Performs database re-organisations as required to assist performance and ensure maximum uptime of the database
• Puts standards in place to ensure that all application design and code is produced with proper integrity, security and performance.
• The DBA will perform reviews on the design and code frequently to ensure the site standards are being adhered to
• Evaluates releases of Oracle and its tools, and third party products to ensure that the site is running the products that are most appropriate
• Planning is also performed by the DBA, along with the application developers and System administrators, to ensure that any new product usage or release upgrade takes place with minimal impact.
• Provides technical support to application development teams.
• Administers all database objects, including tables, clusters, indexes, views, sequences, packages and procedures
• Assists with impact analysis of any changes made to the database objects
• Troubleshoots with problems regarding the databases, applications and development tools.
• Create new database users as required.
• Manage sharing of resources amongst applications.
• The DBA has ultimate responsibility for the physical database design.
• Responsible for the production support of our data warehouse environment

Training and Certification Required

Oracle Certification Preferred

Experience

Min: 7 years; Max: 10 years

Education

Any Graduate

Technical and Other Skills

• Experience of various types of backups and recoveries
• Experience with troubleshooting any Oracle issues
• Knowledge on RAC (Real Application Cluster) is a big plus.
• Knowledge on EBusiness suite or Oracle Financial is a big plus.
• Understanding of system integration and performance analysis
• Proven ability to communicate on a business and technical level

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, 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

• Experience in the architecture of Siebel 7.7 and/or 8.0 especially on Siebel Service request, Product catalog and Order Management
• Good experience in Siebel configuration, Siebel EAI and EIM, Siebel Architecture including Gateway Server, Enterprise Server and Siebel Server
• Good system integration skills
• Good understanding of the Oracle database, networking and UNIX especially Sun Solaris
• Should possess excellent communication skills and ability to interact effectively with customers
• Deep technical and functional experience on Siebel 7 and/or 8 offerings
• Understanding of Siebel architecture and framework capabilities
• Experience with Siebel configuration, development, customization, implementation and performance tuning
• Prior experience in implementing Siebel environment for optimal performance, failover and scalability
• Deep knowledge in implementation of best practices and apply in a real-world setting
• Experience with the following modules: EAI Integrations, Workflow, Business Services, Web Services, Scripting, Configuration, Order Management, Product Catalog
• Experience with EIM/ data conversion activities
• Hands on experience of Siebel on Solaris 8/9/10 environment
• Must have proficiency in database (Oracle 9i / 10g)

Responsibilities

• Resolving key issues with Siebel Server components
• Will assist in delivering of high quality solutions in response to specific business requirements and performs assigned technical tasks including
  • Impact analysis of changes on the Siebel application
  • Technical design of upcoming Siebel projects
  • Siebel patch/product installation
  • Work with Siebel tools (configuration and scripting) to analyze and implement a customer solution
• Work on SQL queries to build reports as requested
• Assumes additional responsibilities as assigned

Training and Certification Required

Siebel 7.X/8.X certified is preferable

Experience

Min: 4 years; Max: 6 years

Education

Any graduate

Technical and Other Skills

• Experience working with different Siebel applications and database tools
• Experience with UNIX scripting
• Experience with documenting system specifications, operating procedures, installation instructions and other system-related information
• Self-driven and motivated to achieve success
• Must have good judgment and excellent communication and inter-personal skills
• Ability to work effectively with internal clients

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, 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 technical leadership abilities and qualities such as; good interpersonal and communication skills, possessing vision, decisive leader with authentic passion, and able to facilitate effective change within an organization.
• Understanding of the Managed Services business model for ITSM, Telco and Network Management.
• Knowledge and experience in the following areas: Datacenter and Managed Network Services organizations business processes and tools, developing feature rich web 2.0 GUI applications, interfacing with various global 3^rd party LEC and Telecommunications service provider systems.
• Demonstrated knowledge of next-gen UI designs, coding, testing, and  web based applications.
• Ability to inspire and promote teamwork of the globally diverse work units and customers.
• Experience working for an Internet Services, Managed Network and Security Services company, to support Operations environments for new software development as well as production support.
• Minimum of three years of experience managing software developers.
• Extensive use of Open source software, and understanding of the various licensing schemes
• Programming experience with ADF, java, ruby, and/or perl based development environments
• Strong, proactive, self motivating and professional work ethic
• Ability to effectively support and aggressively deliver new enhancements for existing applications.
• Fluent in  Java, J2EE, ODBC, JDBC, SQL, XML, WSDL and Web Services experience.
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix platforms.
• Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will lead and grow a team of 8-10 software engineers across multiple locations developing advanced OSS and BSS applications to serve Virtela’s various business departments/functions.  This will include managing all necessary development work pertinent to creating an integrated suite of OSS/BSS applications.  Working collaboratively with Business SMEs, software UAT engineers, to deliver reliable, mission critical applications for advanced network monitoring and management, automated provisioning and service creation, work-flow automation, asset and inventory management, and 3^rd party ordering / billing systems integrations.

• Managing the design and development of real-time mission critical software, preferably in the area of Datacenter and Managed Services support systems in the data communications field.
• Work with the other Managers to identify new application opportunities and technologies.
• Manage various software development projects, both new development and maintenance releases, to participate in the planning and business requirements process for new systems applications.
• Develop, establish and drive aggressive implementation of team operational objectives according to application requirements for functionality, quality, and on time.
• Participate in the development of Virtela’s architecture design strategy.
• Provide one-on-one coaching/development to the local Development Team.
• Recruit, hire and develop the needed team members with advanced technical competence.

Experience

Minimum 8+ years of proven progressive experience in software engineering as a developer, team leader and/or project leader, delivering cutting edge OSS/BSS applications and platforms.

Education

BS Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, a Masters is preferred.