Senior DDI Engineer
Dallas · New York, NY · NJ · Dallas, TX · Jersey City, NJ · London · Hybrid · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Dallas · New York, NY · NJ · Dallas, TX · Jersey City, NJ · London
About the role
- Orion Innovation is seeking a Senior DDI Engineer to work as part of the migration team supporting operations and engineering tasks through the QIP and Bluecat environment transition.
Responsibilities
- Support migration, engineering, and operations work in the QIP and BlueCat environments throughout the transition.
- Run multi-pass migrations: export QIP data, write transformation scripts, and clean up orphaned records, inconsistent TTLs, overlapping IP blocks, and misconfigured DHCP options before import.
- Map QIP objects and custom properties to BlueCat’s object hierarchy and User-Defined Fields, then run bulk imports and validate the import logs.
- Manage DNS coexistence and query routing during the transition using BlueCat Edge or BIND forwarding rules, while keeping lookups to the legacy system working.
- Migrate DHCP scopes without IP conflicts by shortening legacy lease times before cutover and managing active lease hand-offs.
- Design and validate rollback and failback plans for each phased site cutover.
- Inventory custom QIP REST/SOAP integrations and rewrite them against BlueCat’s REST v2 API.
- Integrate BlueCat with Ansible, Terraform, and ServiceNow so automated provisioning keeps working after migration.
- Coordinate with supporting infrastructure teams and application owners.
Requirements
- Senior-level DDI experience, with strong knowledge of QIP internals and how it differs from native BIND.
- Strong knowledge of BlueCat Address Manager and BlueCat DNS/DHCP Server, including Configurations, Blocks, Subnets, Devices, and User-Defined Fields.
- Experience running stepped (multi-pass) 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 roles.
- Works well in a team and with application owners.
Preferred qualifications
- API mapping from QIP to BlueCat: rewriting custom QIP REST/SOAP endpoints for BlueCat REST v2.
- DevOps and ITSM integration experience with Ansible, Terraform, and ServiceNow.
- Hybrid and multi-cloud DNS, including avoiding IP overlap and forwarding sprawl.
- Prior large financial-services enterprise experience.
Skills
- Python
- Bash
- PowerShell
- BlueCat
- QIP
- Ansible
- Terraform
- ServiceNow
- BIND
- DNSSEC
