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Position Summary:
The EdgeCast NOC Team is responsible for the 24/7 monitoring of the EdgeCast Content Delivery Network and for the customers that utilize it. This network comprises of hardware, software, and network technologies. The NOC Technician will be responsible for being the primary first responder for all customer and network issues with the intent of resolving greater than 85% of the issues.
The NOC Tech will have the authority to escalate intelligently to additional groups within EdgeCast and follow through to a timely resolution, cases outside of their domain expertise. They will be expected to interact heavily with various customers using phone, chat or email to resolve issues within specified time limits..


RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:
•Monitor all global EdgeCast servers, applications, network devices, and network connections.
Monitor all EdgeCast customer’s traffic utilizing specific custom built tools..
•Work with the systems administration and network administration teams to resolve complex issues within specific service level agreement times.
•Perform basic systems troubleshooting and management.
•Work directly with EdgeCast customers to resolve technical issues and questions, and coordinate with the EdgeCast systems and network admin teams when necessary.
•Provide thorough research of customer-facing issues and provide report to escalation teams prior to escalation.
•Update customers regularly on ongoing trouble tickets and provide full report of any outages or defects that have direct causality toward the trouble ticket.
•Update internal knowledge base of new support solutions and take steps to grow their experience within the department.
•Serve as first responder for all server outages and customer complaints, monitoring the progress of events, and supplying the client or vendor with updates from escalation teams.



MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge:

• Experience maintaining, managing, and monitoring servers running Linux and Windows operating system required.
• Working knowledge of network troubleshooting, traceroutes, pings, Gomez and Keynote required.
• Strong written, oral and customer communication skills are required.
• Flexible to cover other shifts for extended periods as needed in a 24/7 NOC environment.
• Strong preference for individuals with direct experience in streaming media (Flash and WMS) and HTTP background.

Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to quickly and efficiently react to customer need by providing solutions to customer issues or escalating to another support group.

The candidate must have excellent phone and written skills and have the ability to translate a complex problem into a simpler language for the customer and vice versa.

• Ability to monitor entire CDN infrastructure via various Alerting and Monitoring tools and open proper trouble tickets with the correct language and appropriate information for a fast resolution..

• Must have base understanding of how Linux and Windows OS and Applications work in order to provide temporary relief of device or application outage until final resolution is put in place.

• Excellent organizational skills and resource oriented persona required to adapt to a constantly changing technical environment.

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About Oversee:
Oversee.net® is the leader in Internet real estate, specializing in monetizing, registering, selling and developing domain names. The company's unique optimized technology connects consumers and advertisers with highly relevant advertisements.

The company provides an array of managed services to domain investors, corporations and individuals across more than ten million web sites.

Oversee owns one of the largest portfolios of domain names in the world.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, the company's core brands include DomainSponsor®, SnapNames®, Moniker®, and LowFares.com™.

To learn more, please visit http://www.oversee.net.

Sr. Software Developer
Oversee.net is looking for a Senior Software Developer to work with the core technologies behind Domain Sponsor. The successful candidate will be part of an engineering team devoted to the design and development of high-traffic web applications, backend processing systems, various supporting tools, and administrative front ends.

Responsibilities:
• Work with the Product team to define and direct new development
• Contribute architecture input to new system components, rewrites of legacy systems, etc.
• Write thorough, comprehensive, technical and high-level documentation
• Mentor junior engineers within company standards and development practices to assist the team with career development
• Engineer and implement new product features for Perl web-based applications
• Optimize and enhance web applications with tens of millions of page requests, high volume data logging and processing needs, and high performance requirements

Requirements:
• MySQL usage, schema design
• Log parsing and basic data analysis
• Proficient test planning for Perl applications (via Test::More and/or Test::Unit)
• Detailed knowledge of daemons, cron jobs, and system requirements for high traffic, fault tolerant, 24x7 websites, supporting a service-oriented architecture
• 4+ years Perl experience developing backend and/or web-based systems running in a Unix environment
• Front end web experience with HTML (via Mason and/or Catalyst)
• Basic XML, TCP/IP, NFS, YML, mod_perl, and Apache application server knowledge
• Experience with developing web services applications

Company Benefits:
• Competitive salaries and generous bonus programs aligned with company goals
• Excellent health, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Flexible schedules
• Paid company holidays and paid time off (PTO)
• Friendly work environment
• Company paid short-term and long-term disability
• Company paid group-term life insurance
• Flexible spending account plan
• Company stock options plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Gym membership reimbursement
• Free garage parking or commuter allowance
• $2,000 Employee Referral Bonus program
• Relocation allowance for eligible new hires
• Enjoy friendly competition in our game rooms
• Catered lunches, complimentary soft drinks, Peet’s coffee, food and snacks
• Oversee.net is located in brand new and state-of-the-art creative office space at the City National Building located at 515 S. Flower Street, Suite 4400, Los Angeles, CA 90071



Click here to apply directly for this position. Please attach resumes and send salary requirements (resumes without a salary requirement will not be considered).

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