Careers at GNi and Current Open Positions

About GNi

GNi is a high-growth company headquartered in San Jose, CA with rapid domestic and international growth. Silicon Valley Business Journal rated GNi the 7th fastest growing company in 2007, and Inc. 500 acknowledged as the 349th fastest growing private company in America in 2007.

  • We are a leading provider of a variety of managed service products to both datacenters and business customers that are located within datacenter environments all over the world.  
  • We provide an integrated hosting environment solution for firms who would like to outsource their entire IT infrastructure. This environment typically consists of space, power and cabling requirements, as well as servers and other networking hardware that would not be affordable to the individual business customer, but are affordable for our clients because we leverage many users to reduce the per customer cost of the hardware.
  • We are also an Internet Service Provider and provide redundant internet access to our customers by utilizing multiple large internet providers. Our networks are built on 100’s of Gigabits of network capacity and growing by nearly 10 xs per year.
  • We provide 24/7 on-site support for datacenters and the business customers that reside within those datacenters.

GNi offers competitive benefits package including:

  • Paid Premiums for Medical, Dental and Vision covering employees and family members

  • Up to $100K core Life/AD&D

  • Paid Time Off

  • 401K with employee matching contributions

  • Annual bonus program

  • Option programs coming soon!

GNi has an excellent work environment enabling you to take advantage of opportunities for advancement as we continue to grow together.

How to apply to positions posted on this page.

Please submit resumes in email form with your resume and cover letter as Microsoft Word® attachments.  Please include the following information in the body of the email or cover letter.  Thank you for applying to GNi.

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CALIFORNIA                                                                                                                           

San Jose - Corporate Headquarters

 

Oakland

Los Angeles

  

ARIZONA                                                                                                                                   

 Chandler

 

POSITION DESCRIPTIONS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

NOC TECHNICIAN I

 
Responsibilities:
  • This position may require shift work and local travel.
  • Monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving Tier 1 and 2 Local Area Network problems.
  • Fielding and documenting network related trouble notifications (calls, alerts, official notifications)
  • Escalating problems in accordance with company policy.
  • Analyzing and reporting network performance data.
  • Modifying configurations of network devices.
  • Notifying customers and IT management of applicable problems.
  • Working with Help Desk personnel and second and third level network support to resolve more in-depth problems.
  • Installing network media (copper, fiber, coax)
 
Required Skills:
  • TCP/IP knowledge and basic knowledge of routing and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with servers, routers, switches, hubs, and networking equipment.
  • Experience with SONET, ATM, Ethernet.
  • Experience with trouble-ticketing software.
  • Understanding of Network Performance Management techniques and software.
  • Previous experience working in a Network Operations Center.
  • Experience with Windows 2000 and UNIX.
  • Familiarity with network technology.
 

Send resumes to careers@gni.com

 

SALES EXECUTIVE

 
 Salary:
 
 $200,000+ potential total compensation package: Salary + Commission based on Sales Quota
 
Job Description:
 
  • Sales Executive is an ‘outside sales position.’ Sales Executive will work from GNi’s corporate office or in other assigned offices. This position requires travel to customer locations for sales presentations. The Sales Executive will be expected to facilitate data center tours for new prospects of GNi Services. A Sales Executive may be assigned to sell space in multiple data center locations. GNi data centers may be located outside the city/county/state of the ‘home base’ of the Sales Executive requiring overnight travel.
 
  • Must have professional telephone etiquette, presentation skills, time management skills, project management and PC MS Word Skills, to handle existing and new customer requirements for data center, internet bandwidth and managed services purchases.
 
  • Must be able to work independently, have established contacts in industry and be self motivated to achieve weekly/monthly goals.
 
  • Sales Executive will work closely with the Sales Manager, Director of Sales and Sales Engineer to sell the ‘Value’ of the Global Netoptex product line.
 
Qualifications:
 
  • Minimum of 3-5 years sales experience with an ISP, ASP, Inter-exchange carrier or in a Data Center Environment. 
  • Internet experienced, from a carrier perspective, is required. Candidate must be able to hit the ground running!  
  • Ability to sell ‘value’ over price in a start up environment with aggressive goals. 
  • Must be comfortable working in a small company and willing to accept new challenges based on Business Development success. 
  • Must be a ‘team player’ with company success as the primary goal.

Send resumes to careers@gni.com

 

NETWORK ENGINEER

 
Job Description:
 
We are looking for an experienced network engineer to install, troubleshoot, and support our customers across multiple regions domestically and abroad. In this role you will be implementing new network designs and troubleshooting daily network connectivity issues for our customer base. You will be working in a great team environment, have lots of opportunities for training, but will be expected to learn and implement on your own as well.
We want someone who’s experienced in a fast paced, small – medium sized environment, has experience in an ISP / Service provider environment as a network engineer, and is a CCNP or close to obtaining a CCNP or CCIE. 
We are looking for a Team Player, someone with the desire to do a great job, enjoys network engineering, and be part of a rapidly growing company with a proven success record. If you like solving problems, thinking outside the box, and can also follow general guidelines, send your resume to careers@gni.com
 
Skills Required:
  • Cisco Router and Catalyst switch installation, configuration, troubleshooting and upgrades
  • TCP/IP, Multicasting (IGMP, PIM), IPv4, IPv6 (desirable)
  • OSPF, iBGP, eBGP, VRRP, VPNs (L2TP, IKE, GRE, IPSEC)
  • Configuring and Troubleshooting MPLS (pseudowire, MPLS VPN’s)
  • VLAN Configuration and troubleshooting ( VLAN Trunking, STP, VTP)
  • Metro Ethernet, (VPLS, etc), Sonet, DWDM, CWDM, MultiMode, Single Mode (SFP’s, SC, LC, etc).
  • Security policy, Firewalls (Netscreen and Linux-Unix based), Authentication, Authorization, Access
  • DHCP, DNS, HTTP, SSL, SMTP, SNMP
  • Familiar with IBM Blade Servers and IBM Director
  • Experience in dealing with ARIN, APNIC, and other address registries
  • Willing to be on call
 
Skills Desired:
  • Load Balancing and Application Acceleration
  • VOIP Implementation and troubleshooting experience (CallManager, Unity, SIP, H.323, G.711, G.729)
  • Experienced with Storage solutions: SAN, NAS, DAS, iScsi, Fiber channel
  • Force10 familiarity
 

Send resumes to careers@gni.com

 

STORAGE ADMINISTRATOR

 
 Job Description
 
Job Purpose
This position will be involved in the day to day management of current storage technology (SAN) in place for the customers of GNi. Planning for and facilitating the expansion of these services will also be a major role. This position will perform customer support in times of need at a level above Tier 1 support on SAN issues. There will be opportunities to propose new solutions for the company as the needs arise. Writing documentation will be included in this job for any new processes and procedures encountered and for all new services that this position is responsible for building. The person who fills this position must be a team player, motivated, able to work independently, and be able to multi-task and prioritize projects.
Tasks
  • Diagnose hardware and software problems.
  • Day-to-day support of storage infrastructure.
  • Storage and SAN monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Physical maintenance of SAN hardware in the data centers.
  • 24x7 on call support.
  • Analysis and reporting on performance issues and usage trends.
  • Management of volumes, creating new volumes, insuring sufficient disk space and permissions.
  • Work with the IT-Engineering team members in the installation and support of new clients.
  • Communicate with customers who need troubleshooting assistance.
  • Other projects for clients and internal corporate infrastructure as needed.
 
 
Work Context
  • Requires telephone conversations and use of electronic mail in communicating with clients in a polite, respectable manner.
  • Requires face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams.
  • Requires contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise).
  • Requires making decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization.
  • Requires collaborating and communicating with the team in an online environment (Internet Relay Chat).
  • Requires physical labor and lifting of computer equipment.
  • Requires after hours access to support emergency situations.
  
Qualifications

Education and Experience

Years of Experience:  4+
Education:   College or Equivalent Experience
Degree or Formal Training:  Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Experience Skills

 

Technical Skills
 
Hardware
  • Extensive knowledge and experience in network-attached storage hardware, specifically IBM and SGI SAN systems, Engenio, and Brocade storage networking.
 
Software
  • Experience in SAN connectivity for Windows and UNIX hosts, SANtricity management software.
 
Storage Theory
  • Working knowledge of zoning (hard and soft), LUN mapping, SAN performance optimization and growth planning.
 
Linux
  • Experience with Linux systems as SAN clients.
 
Windows
  • Experience with Windows systems (Windows 2000, Windows 2003) as SAN clients.
 
Networking
  • Knowledge of key networking concepts, IP addressing, routing, firewalls.
 
 
Send resumes to careers@gni.com