microsoft engineer.

job summary: Description: Hybrid, in the office twice a month. If there is a good candidate outside either Richardson or Bedminster, manager is OK with full time remote. As our Ultra Long Haul (ULH) Route Planner, you will be responsible for defining, engineering, and resolving network capacity requirements for Verizon's ultra-long haul transport network. You will utilize high capacity next generation light wave and wave division multiplexing technologies to meet network services capacity, vulnerability, diversity and growth requirements. - Performing equipment engineering, developing specifications for installation, turn-up, inventory, and configuration of equipment. - Issuing purchase orders, creating diagrams/drawings, and ensuring vendor delivery. - Providing diversity analysis for internal groups in support of future customer orders, mesh network growth, and converged core data networks. - Monitoring and optimizing ULH network segments. Performing wavelength rearrangements as needed to reduce stranded network capacity. Researching and deactivating unused network systems. - Researching and identifying ULH segments in need of overbuild due to future expiration of fiber/cable/conduit/property leases, network growth, requests for network diversity, and decommissioning of legacy DWDM platforms. - Providing strategic support for Intelligent Edge Network (iEN) expansion. - Coordinating with COE and leased vendors for space/power, leased cable segments. - Coordinating with contracts to acquire leased cables/conduit. Coordinating with OSP to build and splice owned fiber assets. - Coordinating with real estate to acquire properties for building regen shelters as needed to support fiber path. - Forecasting and prioritizing 12+ month forecast of network builds to capital planning and detail multi-year programs for DWDM platform decommissioning. - Supporting Global Transport Network Operations Center by identifying planned maintenance events on leased and owned cable routes as well as providing ad-hoc restoration for priority systems in the event of cable outages. - Coordinating with lease contracts organization, capital planning, engineering, project management, operations/RCAT, and internal management to provide reports to detail project progress and identifying areas where attention is needed to progress projects. - Bachelor's degree or 10+ years or more of relevant work experience Even better if you have: - A degree in engineering or related field. - Five or more years of experience in the telecommunications industry. - Experience with engineering, Planning, and/or Operations knowledge, especially with Local and Long-Haul Telecommunications networks, specifically with Ciena and Infinera experience. - Excellent knowledge of PC and software application including Windows and MS Office. - strong organizational skills and demonstrated ability to manage multiple, often conflicting priorities to their successful completion. - Demonstrated excellent verbal and written skills for inter-organizational communications to both internal and external partners. - Experience making independent decisions based on policies, practices and project requirements.  location: Richardson, Texas job type: Contract salary: $42 - 46 per hour work hours: 8am to 5pm education: Bachelors   responsibilities: --   qualifications: Experience level: ExperiencedMinimum 3 years of experienceEducation: Bachelors  skills: Quality Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status. For certain assignments, Covid-19 vaccination and/or testing may be required by Randstad's client or applicable federal mandate, subject to approved medical or religious accommodations. Carefully review the job posting for details on vaccine/testing requirements or ask your Randstad representative for more information.

job summary: Description: Traffic Management Engineer provides subject matter expertise for the Client's Application Delivery Network (ADN). ADN is a suite of technologies deployed in the enterprise that, when deployed together, provide application availability, security, visibility, and acceleration services for client applications.Specific focus for this engineering position is to design and implement load balancing solutions including LTM, GTM, SSL Certificate Management and Authoritative DNS Services.This position will require off hours technical support (nights and weekends) to implement all required changes to the environment.Application Delivery Controller (ADC) F5 Local Traffic Manager (LTM) & Global Traffic Manager (GTM)Authoritative External DNS: F5 BIG-IP GTM [Static & Dynamic Zones], AVI Traffic ManagerUnderstanding of SSL Certificate Private Key Infrastructure (PKI) in the SSL Certificate and KEY management and rollover process. Required Job Skills Subject matter expertise of load balancer, DNS, SSL off loaderFunctional understanding of F5's API iControl and application integration.Knowledge of F5 iRules (F5's TCL scripting language)Must have expertise in application switching and traffic management, deep knowledge of application requirements (such as persistence), understand SSL offload and implementation of SSL certificate and Key, and web acceleration and TCP optimization.Use of F5 DOS and DDOS features and mitigation methods including use of network Packet filters and iRules is desirable.Functional knowledge of F5 advanced feature modules including Web Accelerator, Application Security Module, and Application Policy Module.Knowledgeable of F5 system logging event types and logging levelsIn depth knowledge of SSL cryptographic protocol in securing communications over the Internet and the ability to leverage F5 BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers in performing SSL offload (client decryption) and server encryption solutions.Understanding of SSL Certificate Private Key Infrastructure (PKI) in the SSL Certificate and KEY management and rollover process.Expertise in planning, designing, and implementing enterprise-level network security technologies.Expert understanding of network protocols.Hands on security troubleshooting, network-based forensics, and proficient with packet analysis tools like Wireshark, Opnet, etc.Experience with root cause analysis, risk mitigation, security assessments, analysis of security threats, trends and architecture preferred.Programming/scripting experience (Perl, Python or Golang)Knowledgeable on network management and monitoring tools (HP NNMi, Syslog, Splunk, Entuity, Tivoli ITM, HPNA, Cisco CMCS, Netscout)Excellent written and verbal communication. Ability to present at an executive level.Experience managing large, globally dispersed teams of engineers7-10+ years network engineering and/or technology management experience5-7 years of solid traffic management (F5) experience.B.S. degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or relevant experienceProven ability to manage short & long-term engagements with multiple project tracks and teamsAbility to interact with clients at all level, from the C-Level to IT individual contributorFirm understanding of IT Service Management processes, ITIL Certification preferred Desired Job Skills: Application Delivery Controller (ADC) F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) v10.x thru v13xF5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) v10.x thru v13xF5 BIG-IP GTM [Static & Dynamic Zones]Understanding of SSL Certificate Private Key Infrastructure (PKI) in the SSL Certificate and KEY management and rollover process.AVI Traffic managementAuthoritative External DNS:Akamai eDNS Cloud 2nd Name Servers [Static Zones]Domain RegistrarDNS SECDNS ANYCASTIPAM DNS Organizations and Administration of zone data.   location: Richardson, Texas job type: Contract salary: $79 - 89 per hour work hours: 9am to 5pm education: Bachelors   responsibilities: Traffic Management Engineer provides subject matter expertise for the Client's Application Delivery Network (ADN). ADN is a suite of technologies deployed in the enterprise that, when deployed together, provide application availability, security, visibility, and acceleration services for client applications.Specific focus for this engineering position is to design and implement load balancing solutions including LTM, GTM, SSL Certificate Management and Authoritative DNS Services.This position will require off hours technical support (nights and weekends) to implement all required changes to the environment.   qualifications: Experience level: ExperiencedMinimum 10 years of experienceEducation: Bachelors  skills: Python Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status. For certain assignments, Covid-19 vaccination and/or testing may be required by Randstad's client or applicable federal mandate, subject to approved medical or religious accommodations. Carefully review the job posting for details on vaccine/testing requirements or ask your Randstad representative for more information.

job summary: Summary: Individual contributor responsible for providing leadership, technical direction, and oversight to a team as they deliver technology solutions. Key responsibilities of the role include developing solutions and processes for delivering features based on their knowledge of design/architectural patterns and Agile/DevOps practices. This role ensures the systems design and requirements are aligned to achieve the desired business outcomes, and that team practices and coding/quality principles are aligned to achieve the desired technology outcomes. Candidate should have built significant experience through multiple software implementations and has developed both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Required Skills Minimum 12 year experience in IT with hands-on knowledge in Azure Cloud (Synapse, HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, Purview etc.) and on-prem Hadoop clustersExperience with many related tools and technologies like Databricks, Spark, Python, Scala, Java, Hive HQL, HDFS, Hadoop, Shell Scripts, Autosys and SQLhands-on developerExperience gathering requirements, designing complex applications and creating technical documentsExperience with coding and testing prototypesExperience with unit testsKnowledge of Agile development SDLC processWorking experience with CI/CD processes, tools (Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence) and production deployment release process (e.g. change requests)Working experience in Client domain (Wholesale Credit space is a plus)   location: PLANO, Texas job type: Contract salary: $49 - 59 per hour work hours: 8am to 5pm education: Bachelors   responsibilities: Individual contributor responsible for providing leadership, technical direction, and oversight to a team as they deliver technology solutions. Key responsibilities of the role include developing solutions and processes for delivering features based on their knowledge of design/architectural patterns and Agile/DevOps practices.   qualifications: Experience level: ExperiencedMinimum 10 years of experienceEducation: Bachelors  skills: DevOps Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status. For certain assignments, Covid-19 vaccination and/or testing may be required by Randstad's client or applicable federal mandate, subject to approved medical or religious accommodations. Carefully review the job posting for details on vaccine/testing requirements or ask your Randstad representative for more information.