Company Profile: Headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey, and with further strategic locations across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, ExterNetworks has rapidly expanded its operations and capacity since entering the market in 2001. By following a complete client-centric service approach, we offer highly flexible and entirely customized IT solutions that respond to multiple and varied requirements and help our clients accomplish their business objectives. We take into account key factors, such as budgetary constraints, time pressures, and project-specific requirements to continually adapt to clients’ needs and ever-changing market conditions. Project Description: Minimum of 10 years industry experience in developing complex systems required. The Logical Route Service Infrastructure network tool is being developed in conjunction with upgrading a variety of disparate BGPM on tools to IPv6. It will be extended to support the disparate OSPFMon tools as well. Job Description: The contractor will provide development, tier 4 support and testing support. Development of tools to support operations (installation and troubleshooting) as well as development of test automation. Development of data analysis tools and integration with data analysis systems. Testing of new releases from research. Production support of delivered production, creating operational procedures and guides, creating troubleshooting guides and procedures. Working with operations to resolve issues in production. Work with customers, developers, infrastructure engineers, and other service planners/designers to assess and integrate new feature/service requests. Identify specific new features, capabilities, and services. Work with customers, account team, product management, developers, infrastructure engineers, and other service planners/designers to assess, design and develop test case scenarios. Work with team to verify end to end functionality as well as support of project deliverables. Must be familiar with DNS, IP, architecture, BGP, OSPF, UNIX, infrastructure, web hosting, and service delivery. Must be able to work with many internal organizations and customers to plan, define, design, develop and deploy services and features. Must be able to communicate clearly technical issues on services and features. Ability to work independently and in an ambiguous environment. Strong preference to candidates that have worked on projects from scratch, not just updates to existing components. Skill Experience Needed: 1) Network Routing Expert Required 2) OSPF Intermediate Required 3) Java Intermediate Required 4) BGP Intermediate Required 5) Communication skills - written/verbal Expert Required 6) Perl Intermediate Desired 7) C Intermediate Desired