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# Linux Network Performance Engineer

- **Company:** VDart, Inc.
- **Location:** Chandler, AZ, United States
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Communications Protocols, Perl (Programming Language), Internet Protocol Security (IP SEC), Python (Programming Language), Linux Kernel, Nginx, Performance Tuning, Virtualization Technology
- **Published:** August 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/21873820-f6dd-4638-ba74-ce502e1a2587

## About the Role

* Good understanding of Linux internals and OS concepts
 * Identify bottlenecks of different workloads
 * Knowledge on Ixia or Spirent Traffic Generator
 * Knowledge on Performance benchmarking (RFC 2544)
 * Problem solving skills and learning attitude

Key Responsibilities

 * L2 / L3 Networking protocol testing experience
 * Experience on virtualization, DPDK, VPP, IPSec, NGINX, NGFW
 * Software based networking, data path forwarding
 * Performance analysis and performance tuning
 * Shell / Python / Perl scripting

Skill Requirements

 * DPDK, VPP, IPSec, NGINX, NGFW, Shell / Python / Perl scripting



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