DDI Platform Engineer - DNS/DHCP/IPAM Specialist

VERISIGN; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Verisign in Reston, VA seeks a DDI Engineer to join the team responsible for building, managing and maintaining the Infoblox platform and related network management systems.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience, strong DNS/DHCP/IPAM knowledge, scripting skills in Python or Go, and experience deploying DDI platforms; hybrid work, on-call rotation and a pay range of $108,900 to $147,300.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Written and verbal communication skills – ability to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues.
• Experience deploying and operating a DDI platform from industry leading vendors in a production environment.
• Experience integrating multiple services with a DDI platform in an enterprise architecture.
• Strong understanding of DNS protocols, DHCP lease management and IPAM (IPv4 and IPv6) hierarchy.
• Understanding of CMDB and ITIL concepts.
• Understanding of network protocols and security.
• Ability to write scripts in either Python or Go that can interact with multiple platforms in an enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and maintain our Infoblox platform supporting our DDI initiative at Verisign.
• Implement and support monitoring pipelines for DDI platform health to support platform observability and availability.
• Automate DDI workflows for provisioning, cleanup and compliance enforcement.
• Troubleshoot complex DNS/DHCP/IPAM incidents, participate in root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes.
• Create and maintain documentation and runbooks for our first-line support teams.
• Ensure compliance with vulnerability management standards and information security standards.
• Participate in a 24x7 on call rotation for tier 3 support.

Skills

Written communication

DNS/DHCP/IPAM

Scripting (Python/Go)

Network protocols & security

DDI platform deployment

DDI integration

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Infoblox platform

ServiceNow

GitHub

Jira

Kubernetes

NetBox

BIND/DHCP-kea

Jenkins

Job description

Verisign in Reston, VA seeks a DDI Engineer to join the team responsible for building, managing and maintaining the Infoblox platform and related network management systems.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience, strong DNS/DHCP/IPAM knowledge, scripting skills in Python or Go, and experience deploying DDI platforms; hybrid work, on-call rotation and a pay range of $108,900 to $147,300.