NMS Designer (Opentext or Micro Focus NOM)

A&M Technologies, Inc. has an opening for an NMS Designer to support the National Security Team. This position directly impacts continuous monitoring, performance analysis, and cybersecurity for a large worldwide network enterprise through deploying, tuning, and optimizing network management tools.  The position is one of a large team of developers, system administrators, and application experts building next-generation solutions.  Our team is working to automate deployment functions, event responses, and network provisioning.  This is an opportunity to develop a network performance solution capable of predicting outages and identifying malicious user activity through analytics of baseline network behavior.  Work with us to modernize four security enclaves with thousands of devices in a unique, mission-focused environment. 

The job duties of the NMS Designer are to engineer and support the rapidly evolving Network Operations Management and Juniper Paragon common service requirements for mission critical network operations. The ideal candidate will possess the experience levels and manage the responsibilities below.

• Expertise with:
  • Expert in Micro Focus / Open Text Network Operations Management and other software suites
• Strong or demonstrated hands-on engineering experience with:
  • Modern Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Microsoft Windows operating systems
  • Strong background to perform development using system development lifecycles to include requirements and control gates and all documentation associated with standard intelligence community and DoD engineering lifecycles
  • Developing and maintaining NOM configurations based on customer requirements
  • Designing, implementing, testing, and supporting NOM applications and documenting design ideas
  • Participating in requirement gathering sessions
  • Collaborating with the team on application architecture design and decision-making
  • Configuring and tuning application servers
  • Participating in production troubleshooting and issue correction for applications after production implementations
  • Participating in production issues-remediation and troubleshooting as needed
  • Solving complex production issues
  • Predicting emerging customer needs and developing innovative solutions to meet them
  • Remaining a strong team player working with diverse software and hardware development and operations teams; work with engineering managers for day-to-day team schedules and work assignments
• Experience with: 
  • Juniper Paragon Automation
  • Strong Unix/Linux system knowledge
  • 5+ years of NOM development experience
  • Intermediate or higher knowledge of Container technology (Kubernetes)
  • Intermediate or higher knowledge of Python or Perl
  • Extended knowledge of API design (JSON, REST, etc.)
  • Solid understanding of Layer 1-4 fundamental protocols
  • Knowledge of standard networking monitoring technologies (SNMP, *Flow, etc.)
  • Knowledge of network device configuration and management
  • Knowledge of Unit Test framework a plus
  • Knowledge of Agile & Scrum Methodologies

Requirements

Required Clearance: TS/SCI CI Poly

• Candidate must have 10 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 3 years, master’s and 4 years, bachelor’s and 6 years, associates and 8 years or HS diploma and 10 years. Additional required qualifications include:
  • Hands-on experience with developing Micro Focus/OpenText software with concentration on NOM and Optic Data Lake technologies Strong Unix/Linux system knowledge
  • Must comply with DoD 8570 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2
  • Degree must be in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • Must be a highly motivated candidate who is able to work independently and work with local and geographically diverse team members using effective time management skills to meet deliverable timelines

Desired Qualifications: 

• Expertise in Juniper Paragon Automation software engineering/development for modeling and simulation/performance management teams