Senior DDI Engineer – QIP/BlueCat Migration Lead

Orion Innovation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Orion Innovation in the United States is seeking a senior DDI migration engineer to join the migration team, supporting QIP and BlueCat environments through transition. You will work with cross-functional teams and application owners to ensure smooth cutovers.

Responsibilities include running multi-pass migrations, transforming data, mapping QIP objects to BlueCat, managing DNS coexistence, DHCP scope migration, and validating rollback plans.

Qualifications

• Senior-level DDI experience with deep knowledge of QIP internals and its differences from native BIND.
• Strong knowledge of BlueCat Address Manager and BlueCat DNS/DHCP Server configurations, blocks, subnets, and user fields.
• Experience running stepped data migrations, including data normalization and high-volume bulk imports.
• DNS coexistence and query routing during a dual-platform transition.
• DHCP lease migration strategy and rollback/failback planning.
• Advanced DNS: views, dynamic DNS across legacy and new servers, DNSSEC, and traffic monitoring.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for data checks and delta merges.
• Linux appliance administration and BlueCat service deployment.

Responsibilities

• Support migration, engineering, and operations work in QIP and BlueCat environments during transition.
• Run multi-pass migrations: export QIP data, write transformation scripts, clean up orphaned records, TTL issues, and overlaps before import.
• Map QIP objects to BlueCat hierarchy and perform bulk imports; validate import logs.
• Manage DNS coexistence and query routing during transition using BlueCat Edge or BIND forwarding rules.
• Migrate DHCP scopes without IP conflicts by shortening legacy lease times and coordinating hand-offs.
• Design and validate rollback and failback plans for each phased site cutover.
• Inventory and rewrite QIP REST/SOAP integrations to BlueCat REST v2 API; integrate BlueCat with Ansible, Terraform, and ServiceNow.
• Coordinate with supporting infrastructure teams and application owners.

Skills

DDI experience

QIP internals

BlueCat Address Manager

BlueCat DNS/DHCP

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Linux

Automation scripting

DNSSEC

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

ServiceNow

QIP

BlueCat REST API

AWS Route 53

Azure DNS

Job description

Orion Innovation in the United States is seeking a senior DDI migration engineer to join the migration team, supporting QIP and BlueCat environments through transition. You will work with cross-functional teams and application owners to ensure smooth cutovers.

Responsibilities include running multi-pass migrations, transforming data, mapping QIP objects to BlueCat, managing DNS coexistence, DHCP scope migration, and validating rollback plans.