SPARTA

Willy Franzen — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:57:37 +0000

Usually when I’m looking at the job requirements to determine whether a position is suitable for new college grads, I’m looking at things like education, experience, skills, and job functions. It’s not often that I’m thinking about security clearance, but at today’s company, SPARTA, it’s essential for most of their positions. (Now, don’t worry if you don’t already have Top Secret Clearance, they still might have jobs for you as long as you didn’t get into too much trouble during your college years or before.) The reason that there’s all this talk about clearance is that SPARTA is a company whose “core business areas include strategic defense and offense systems, tactical weapons systems, and space systems” and whose “major intelligence credentials include intelligence production, computer network operations, and information assurance.”

This Is SPARTA

If you’ve spent your time in college attending peace protests, then SPARTA probably isn’t for you, but if you have a hard science or engineering background that you’d like to put to practical use, then you’ll be fascinated by the job titles that SPARTA is hiring for. Current openings include Weapons Effects Analyst, Cyberspace Analyst, and WMD Engineer (don’t worry, this job is about “supporting national efforts in developing, integrating and synchronizing capabilities to combat weapons of mass destruction”). These aren’t SPARTA’s entry level jobs, but they demonstrate what kind of projects the company is working on. They have more than 100 jobs listed right now, and quite a few of the opportunities actually are entry level. These include Integration Engineer, Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, and Linux/Unix Software Engineer. These are the only jobs that are identified as entry level, but you should definitely check out the rest of their job listings. You can apply online, and SPARTA has locations that include Arlington, VA; Aurora, CO; Bel Air, MD; Bellevue, NE; Billerica, MA; Centreville, VA; Colorado Springs, CO; Columbia, MD; El Segundo, CA; Huntsville, AL; Laguna Hills, CA; Lake Forest, CA; Nashua, NH; Newport News, VA; Orlando, FL; San Diego, CA; and Sunnyvale, CA.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

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Dynamic Network Services

Willy Franzen — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:26:01 +0000

For you to get here and read this (or for this to get to you if you’re an e-mail subscriber) a quick but complicated journey through the tubes of the Internet is necessary. In fact, to reach us by our domain name, OneDayOneJob.com, instead of our IP address (which is kind of like a telephone number for websites) takes as many as 7 steps. The story of how our daily e-mails get to our e-mail subscribers is just as complicated. As a website grows, the process becomes even more complex. One Day, One Job is on a single server (and the same server as One Day, One Internship), but a site like Facebook has many different servers. Figuring out which users to send to which servers becomes a very complicated problem. Luckily, there are companies like Dynamic Network Services to ensure that businesses and individuals don’t have to deal with the complicated issues of the Domain Name System.

A Dynamic Work Environment

That’s all you’re going to get from us on the nature of DNS. We’re nowhere near experts on the subject, and we figure that anyone considering employment at Dynamic Network Services probably doesn’t need an explanation of what the company does – at least not from us. Dynamic Network Services consists of three brands, all of which operate in similar spheres. They are DynDNS, Dynect, and DynTLD. There’s also the Dynamic Network Services lab, which is home to their beta services and research endeavors. All of the businesses are located in one office in Manchester, NH. They say there are “no bouncing rubber balls, two story gyms and definitely no organic salad bars,” but they do have a Segway, lava lamp, and a Flickr stream. They boast a casual work environment, that appears to boost creativity and even allows for some fun.

Are You a Dynamo?

Dynamic Network Services currently has two job openings that might be a good fit for a new college graduate: Customer Support Technician and FreeBSD/Unix Systems Administrator. The Customer Support Technician appears to be a clear cut entry-level job, while the Systems Administrator opportunity is probably best left for someone who has significant experience with the systems outlined in the job description. Application instructions are in a yellow box on the right side of the job listings page, and there are a few specific details that you need to follow to make sure that your application gets read. Dynamic Network Services is also completely open to cold calls, so if you think you’d be a great addition to their team, but not in the capacities specified in their job openings, then send them a letter telling them why they need to hire you. Working at Dynamic Network Services looks like a lot of fun, and they offer great benefits, so give them a look.