Engineer

Artech is the 10th Largest IT Staffing Company in the US, according to Staffing Industry Analysts' 2012 annual report. Artech provides technical expertise to fill gaps in clients' immediate skill-sets availability, deliver emerging technology skill-sets, refresh existing skill base, allow for flexibility in project planning and execution phases, and provide budgeting/financial flexibility by offering contingent labor as a variable cost.

Responsibilities

Job Title: Engineer; Location: Reston VA 20190; Duration: 12 months; Job Description: -; Experience running distributed applications spanning multiple sites; Experience running applications for large scale environments; Knowledge of running applications in shared virtualized environments (cloud); Advanced tactical troubleshooting skills and performance tuning of applications and server resources; Knowledge of networking OSI model and the communications that happen at each tier; Proven experience of scripting to assist in troubleshooting and application issue remediation (Python, shell); Experience developing, supporting, and using automation tools to manage changes to large environments (ansible, puppet); Proven experience with load balancing and GSLB tools to distribute applications for performance and failover scenarios; Security focused approach while architecting solutions.; Experience designing application deployment for load, scale, and fault tolerance.

Requirements

Items that are a plus:; Experience with mail systems, imap servers; Use of Object storage with end user applications; Dovecot, Zimbra mail server experience; Openstack at an operator/consumer level; Expertise with HAProxy; Cassandra experience, including performance tuning and application tuning