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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Security Engineer
Location: Penninsula,CA, California, US
Type: Permanent P/T
Closing Date: 05/22/2005
Please direct your responses to: raj at stecs.com
Company:
Company was started by 3 engineers in July 2003. They are funded by top VCs in
Mid 2004, rolled the first generation of the product already (with a staff of
16 people) and have revenue and still have money in the bank from the funding.
They are starting to work on second generation of the product.
Product:
It's an appliance with a off the shelf hardware. The secret of the software is
the algorithms which run in it and the way they look at the different packets
and try to relate the dissimilar packets and find out if there are worms or
denial of service attack propagating, they prevent Network Availability Attack,
address DDOS, Zero day worm, worm containment. They look at the unusual
patterns and do a fine grained security.
Senior Appliance Engineer
Client is a Penninsula startup that is focused on developing products and
services that can help defend against next-generation cyber attacks. If you are
highly motivated and productive, comfortable with working at a fast-paced,
demanding startup that is introducing a new state-of-the-art security product
to the market, this could be an excellent opportunity for you.
The candidate will have diverse background, someone who is more of a generalist
with strong background in networking, systems, OS Kernel and solid TCP/IP
knowledge. This person will work on the current product but more on the next
generation of the product which will be an appliance doing collaborative
security. Candidate should have experience in performance issues, should have
understanding of what hardware works better with what systems, not necessarily
doing any hardware development, e.g if the Intel motherboard is better or
Opteron and understand the tradeoffs, can come up with ideas like if they need
a TOE card or we need to offload TCP. Someone who demonstrates the ability to
solve sizable problems in the area. They have hacked the Linux kernel and made
changes as per their requirement. The person who comes on board will contribute
in next generation appliance design and what hardware to use.
The technology is revolving around Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, C, on the management
or GUI , it's Java and Perl, TOMCAT, Apache, Java Web start, protocols
HTTP,TCP/IP layer . Someone who knows how to sniff lots of traffic, OS issues
dealing with traffic load. The appliance has a off the shelf high end hardware.
The job description below is very generic and it is not necessary to have each
and everything in your profile..
Job Description:
We are looking for a senior appliance engineer who specializes in building
dedicated appliances using commodity hardware and OS.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of Unix kernel development and debugging experience
- 3+ years of appliance design experience
- 3+ years of NIC device driver experience
- 5+ year of extensive software development experience in C or similar languages
- Bachelor's degree in CS or related experience from a reputable institution
Desirable Expertise:
- Expertise in the security or networking areas
- Expertise in Linux or FreeBSD OS
- Expertise in Intel and Opteron based motherboards
- Expertise in networking protocols and network devices
- Expertise in traffic capture and analysis
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Network Security QA Engineer
This is really a creative QA person, you will know how to do networking
testing, put the network together, knows how to connect to or network different
boxes (cisco. Juniper foundry and even what a fiber optic looks like).
Understand what the product does and gain the respect of developers, contribute
to development and using the in-house built tools and traffic/load generators.
Write scripts in any language of your choice, they are using Perl though. Some
one who can understand how their management software works, how GUI works and
how the appliance detects the attack, mitigate and understand a system level
view.
Someone who understands how packets flow and can sniff it and used traffic
simulation tools.
They are focused on developing products and services that can help defend
against next-generation cyber attacks. If you have strong network-level QA
experience, strong experience with routers and switches, think of yourself as
highly self-motivated, and are comfortable working at a fast-paced, demanding
startup that is introducing a new state-of-the-art security product to the
market, this could be an excellent opportunity for you.
The primary requirement for this job is to perform network level testing for a
network security software product. It also requires configuring and
troubleshooting networked systems, switches, and routers on an ongoing basis
and performing complex experiments which involve traffic generation and
measurements.
Required Skills and Experience:
* 5+ years of networking and systems QA experience
* 5+ years of hands-on experience with multi-vendor routers, switches, and
Linux servers
* Detailed working knowledge of endpoint networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP,
ICMP), inter-router networking protocols (iBGP, eBGP), network monitoring
protocols (Netflow, SNMP), and application protocols (HTTP, SMTP).
* Strong test software development skills in Perl. C, or similar languages
* Excellent communication and technical writing skills
* Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from a reputable institution
Desirable Skills and Experience:
* Experience working at a security/networking start-up
* Knowledge of mathematical and statistical analysis techniques
* Expert in Linux/FreeBSD OS, JunOS, CiscoIOS.
If you are interested and would like to apply please send your most updated
resume and cover letter highlighting the relevant aspects in your background
to: raj at stecs.com
Best Regards,
Raj Khanna
408.540.1800 x208
SearchTech Solutions Inc.
307 Orchard City Dr,
Suite 300, Campbell, CA 95008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yuvi123/
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CONTACT
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Raj Khanna
Sr. Account Executive
SearchTech Solutions
raj@stecs.com
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