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Company Description
Excelon Solutions is a trusted consulting partner that delivers flexible Salesforce, AWS Services, VMware, Microsoft Azure, and IT business solutions. By providing innovative and targeted solutions, Excelon Solutions helps businesses gain control over their operations, ensuring customer loyalty and cost management. Through deep domain expertise and a focus on selected vertical markets, the company assists clients in achieving their business goals. Excelon Solutions leverages state-of-the-art technology to accelerate IT transformation, enabling real-time reporting and integrated platforms. Our mission is to act as a reliable extension for SMEs and drive successful technology initiatives.
Title : Senior Cloud Network Security Engineer/Developer (Golang/VPP/DPDK)
Duration :1 year with potential extensions
Location2: Dallas TX/San Jose CA (USA)
Roles and Responsibilities:
Would be part of a team involved in developing software for a security solution - that involves development in SW data path, control plane and system infrastructure; the solutions will be cloud-native in a virtualized/containerized environment.
This work would involve developing and integrating features with software-based data-path based on VPP/DPDK. Security infrastructure and solutions to be developed and integrated. Experience in data center networking and developing data-plane and forwarding components is a plus.
Prior experience in identifying, integrating/enhancing open-source software, for networking protocols, firewall, Secure Web Gateway, next-gen FW components is highly desirable.
As an individual contributor, one should be a team player and should work in a multi-site mode along with other teams in different time zones as well. Ability to work independently with a high-level guidance is a must.
The skill set required:
Engineers with work experience in WAN technologies & protocols, proficiency in switching and routing principles and familiarity with SDWAN architectures and components, especially the security related ones like IPSec, SWG, NGFW, IDS/IPS, stateful firewall, etc.
Security related Expertise
Knowledge of network security principles & practices
Experience with firewalls intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS) & secure access controls
Skills in anomaly, threat detection, and incident response methodologies
Understanding of encryption technologies and secure tunneling
Experience in providing secure platform infrastructure.
Experience in integration with security software stacks
Experience in DPDK/VPP based solutions and other datapath technologies
Excellent Golang, C/C++. Must be able to write optimal code.
Experience in working on Cloud Native technologies - Kubernetes, Docker, distributed systems, message bus, GRPC.
Experience in programmable packet pipelines is an added plus
Experience in DPI (Deep packet inspection), VPN, QOS, is highly desirable
Experience in developing CNF/VNF is an added plus.
Experience in DPI (Deep packet inspection), VPN, QOS, is highly desirable
Keywords
VPP, DPDK, CNF, VNF, IDS, IPS, DPI, QOS, Firewall, ZBF, SWG.
Golang, C, Unix, C++, GRPC, K8S, Kubernetes, Docker, Network stack, linux kernel, system programming,
Forwarding, Fastpath, datapath, distributed systems, SDWAN, Visibility, IPSec
NOTE:
This is a hands-on developer, could be a tech lead based on experience and expertise
Skills - Golang is a must-have, Kubernetes/Containerization knowledge is also a must-have, NGFW, SWG, IDS/IPS are very pertinent domain expertise to have, VPP/DPDK, etc... nice-to-have
Not necessary to have specific AWS/Azure/ security credentials. Since the solution will be cloud native, the person should have knowledge of containerization, virtualization and using cloud infra for message bus, databases etc..
About the Company
Excelon Solutions is a true consulting partner to its valuable customers.
Our mission is to act as an extension to the SME sectors, to aid in the successful Salesforce, AWS Services, VMware, Microsoft Azure, IT Services and IT transformation and technology initiatives.
Excelon Solutions is a leader in truly flexible Salesforce, AWS Services, VMware, Microsoft Azure, IT Services and other I.T. business solutions. Through the company's innovative and targeted solutions we help you win customer loyalty and control costs by ...
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