Senior Software/Applications Engineers
As a Senior Application Performance Engineer you will help solve government and enterprise customers' network, application, and server capacity and performance issues. This job combines engineering disciplines with a business focus for delivering IT performance recommendations. You will utilize OPNET's software to test, analyze, monitor and optimize IT infrastructures. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Perform server and system design, capacity and performance analyses
- Act as an expert for application performance - utilize OPNET products such as ACE, Panorama, SLA Commander and LoadScaler and other tools to identify key components of transaction performance including transport (e.g. network), front end (e.g. web servers, proxy servers, load balancers), mid-tier (e.g. application servers), and back end systems (e.g. databases).
- Collect system performance information required for performance analysis studies
- Analyze and understand clients' IT requirements, organization functions, and decision making processes
- Produce a solution that fulfills clients' needs within budget and schedule constraints
- Full lifecycle project execution including business development, service delivery, and customer presentations]
- Present and articulate advanced product features, benefits, and overall product solutions and services offerings
Qualifications
Here’s what you should bring to the table:
- Eligibility to obtain a US security clearance
- Thorough knowledge of software engineering, programming languages (in-depth C/C++ experience required), object-oriented design and UNIX
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or a related field with a background in network modeling, simulation and operations research
- Programming Experience
- Experience with process modeling in OPNET Modeler
- Broad-based communications network background in technologies (including Wireless LANS, ATM, IP, MPLS, Frame Relay, etc.), services, and hardware
- Strong technical and oral/written communication skills are important as the individual will produce functional specifications, interact with vendors and interface with clients
- Must be motivated to have an impact on our products, our company, and the state of the art.
Location
Bethesda, MD
What OPNET Can Offer You!
We're a group of overachievers and we want more people like ourselves.
If you join us, we'll reward you for your skills, your ideas, and
your drive by providing you with an environment where challenge,
teamwork, and an opportunity to make a real difference happen every
day.
Contact
For immediate consideration please e-mail your resume to:
E-MAIL: recruiting@OPNET.com
Attention: Careers@OPNET- Software Engineer
OPNET Technologies, Inc.
7255 Woodmont Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20814
FAX: (240) 497-1063
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action H/V