| Director, Network Engineering | Washington, District of Columbia | Permanent |
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This HireStrategy client is a membership of 2,500 of the country's largest and most progressive health systems and medical centers. Our client provides best practices research and analysis to the health care industry, focusing on business strategy, operations and general management issues.
We are conducting a search for a Director, Network Engineering.
Position Info:
As a critical member of the IS Operations team, the Director, Network Engineering will be responsible for the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of systems and processes to ensure the availability and consistent performance of the company's technical infrastructure, supporting 1200 associates in six offices. The Director will also assist in architectural and solutions design and will mentor other IS Team members. This is a “hands-on” position requiring solid technical skills, along with solid leadership and communications skills.
Overview of Existing Technical Infrastructure:
Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft file and print servers
Microsoft SQL servers
Microsoft Sharepoint servers
Citrix and Blackberry servers
Cisco Networking
Cisco VoIP
VPN connectivity including point-to-point and remote access
Primarily Microsoft desktops and laptops
Responsibilities:
Configure and maintain servers and processes across multiple environments, including monitoring of system health and performance, automating regular processes, scheduling upgrades, and assisting with delivery issues.
Research, troubleshoot, track issues, and document changes to various parts of the infrastructure platforms and networks.
Planning, set up and integration of remote offices
Serve as a point person to analyze, solve and support customer issues.
Create task lists and project plans for work as assigned and act as lead for projects.
Contribute to the creation and maintenance of business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
Basic Qualifications
At least 5 years experience in Microsoft infrastructure platform administration
Educational background in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field-- minimum of a Bachelor's degree required
Ideal Qualifications:
Experience troubleshooting and finding multiple solutions to a complex problem
Ability to organize and plan work and lead implementation efforts
Ability to work in a rapidly changing and interrupt-driven environment
Ability to communicate ideas and expectations effectively by e-mail, phone, and in person
Experience working within a team environment |
 Email this Job! | ID#: 27597 |
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| Sr. Systems Engineer (Unix) | Washington, District of Columbia | Permanent |
| Expand | Collapse | $90,000 to $110,000 | I'm Interested |
This HireStrategy client is a membership of 2,500 of the country's largest and most progressive health systems and medical centers. Our client provides best practices research and analysis to the health care industry, focusing on business strategy, operations and general management issues.
We are conducting a search for a Senior Systems Engineer.
The Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible for the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of systems and processes to ensure the availability and consistent performance of products. The Senior Systems Engineer will also assist in architectural and solutions design, and will mentor other Infrastructure Team members. This is a “hands-on” position requiring solid technical skills, along with solid leadership and communications skills.
Specific Responsibilities:
Configure and maintain servers and processes across multiple environments, including monitoring of system health and performance, automating regular processes, scheduling upgrades, and assisting with delivery issues.
Research, troubleshoot, track issues, and document changes to the production platforms.
Provide on-call and after hours support for critical production systems on a rotation basis.
Independently analyze and correct production issues in real time.
Serve as a point person to analyze, solve and support customer issues.
Participate in the software deployment process (system configurations, writing automated deploy scripts, etc.)
Plan for expansion of systems to account for the expected high growth of ABCO's Compass Solutions.
Automate and refine existing configuration management and operations processes.
Maintain and share domain and technical expertise with peers and customers; provide technical mentorship and cross-training to peers in areas of expertise.
Create task lists and project plans for work as assigned, and act as team lead for projects.
Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies.
Create business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
Perform complete systems administration and support functions for IBM WebSphere Portal Server v6.0 and v6.1 and IBM WebSphere Application Server v6.0 and v6.1 on various UNIX servers.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
At least 5 years experience as a Unix Systems Administrator with Solaris and Linux, and familiar with Windows 2003 platform administration
At least 3 years experience installing and configuring distributed software systems in multi-tier environments (Apache, Java, LDAP, Oracle)
In-depth web/application server skill sets, with a thorough understanding of load balancers, single sign on solutions, and HTTPS/SSL communications
Knowledge of low-level operating system command sets and shell scripting
Ability to troubleshoot
Ability to organize and plan work and lead implementation efforts
Ability to be on-call to respond to critical production system issues
Experience in performance tuning, using tools for stress testing, and building scalable systems
Ability to work in a rapidly changing and interrupt-driven environment
Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
Ideal Qualifications:
Experience administering WebSphere Portal and Application servers
Experience with GlassFish application server
Familiarity with Oracle databases, data warehousing, and ETL tools
Familiarity with MicroStrategy reporting and Informatica
Prior operational experience in an ASP environment
Prior experience in healthcare or a HIPAA compliant environment
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| Email this Job! | ID#: 27562 |
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| System Engineer 5 | Reston, Virginia | Contract-To-Permanent |
| Expand | Collapse | $36 to $44 | I'm Interested |
Job Requirements
Perform all aspects of the installation, maintenance and usage of a large-scale local and wide area network. Manage network performance and maintains security. Execute test procedures to assess systems performance, identify and troubleshoot difficult or unusual problems, and analyze results for the implementation of system upgrades.
Assumes a technical leadership or supervisory role as required. Monitors resource allocation and utilization and performs capacity planning. Maintains expertise with, and advises management on, current technologies. Work with vendors to research, assess and acquire new or upgraded technologies. Act as a Subject Matter Specialist in supporting firewalls, routers and core switching techniques. Must be able to assume technical leadership to implement projects such as cable plant installation or expansions, and router and firewall installation or upgrades. Provide peer learning opportunities to other team members. Coach lower-level staff to elevate overall institutional knowledge among the technical teams. Develop detail project plans and project schedule. Produce high level system engineering design layout covering all aspects of implementations. Deliver technical presentations to the management
At least eight (8) years experience in a large organization responsible for administering, operating, maintaining, and securing a large-scale computer network, including two years in a technical leadership or supervisory role
At least five (5) years of experience in supporting a complex back-end firewall infrastructure environment covering all aspects of firewall administration such as hardware, operating system, encryption tunnels, gateway-to-gateway VPNs, TCP port exemptions, day-to-operations of firewall rule sets. Backup and restore of management consoles, firewall OS and rule sets
At least three years experience in a large organization responsible for deploying computer system applications in a client/server network environment
Thorough knowledge of computer network telecommunications, Windows Server operating systems, and TCP/IP protocol and TCP ports
At least three (3) years of progressive experience in supporting a large network comprising business DSL based gateway-to-gateway VPNs, MPLS and point-to-point WAN products
Thorough knowledge of network management protocols and related standard tools
Thorough knowledge of network-based application software such as Exchange, Oracle, DNS/DNSSec, DHCP, Internet based Domain Naming services and registration process
Thorough knowledge of telecommunications, network, and computer security issues and established security practices
Lead approved LAN and WAN technology deployments and network expansions and upgrades, insuring that contractor staff follow documented procedures and policies
Recommend equipment, parts and software required to be purchased by the Government in support of the System Improvement Plan
At least two (2) years of progressive experience in managing and supporting Disaster Recovery and COOP operations and further expansions
Technical certification (e.g., Cisco Certified Network Professional or Cisco Certified Design Professional)
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| Email this Job! | ID#: 27486 |
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| Storage Engineer 6 (SAN Engineer) | Reston, Virginia | Contract-To-Permanent |
| Expand | Collapse | $40 to $49 | I'm Interested |
Job Requirements
Expert knowledge of setup, deployment, maintenance and operations of Network Applicance (NetApp) SANs.
At least six (6) years experience in supporting, administering, operating, maintaining, and securing SAN and NAS storage facilities, including two years in a technical leadership or supervisory role
At least six (6) years experience in troubleshooting, installing, and patching storage subsystems
At least four (4) years of experience troubleshooting storage problems and providing solutions
At least four (4) years of storage management experience in a large organization or corporation
Thorough knowledge of computer network telecommunications, UNIX operating systems, Windows operating systems, and the TCP/IP protocol
Thorough knowledge of network management protocols and related standard tools
Thorough knowledge of telecommunications, network, and computer security issues and established security practices
Thorough knowledge or enterprise network back technologies (e.g., Veritas NetBackup) used to and restore SAN and NAS systems
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| Email this Job! | ID#: 27483 |
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| VOIP Engineer | Reston, Virginia | Contract-To-Permanent |
| Expand | Collapse | $54 to $66 | I'm Interested |
Job Duties:
Maintains data, voice or video network hardware and systems; investigates and resolves network and hardware matters of significance; researches, analyzes, isolates and resolves errors; assesses and updates older networks as needed and in accordance with specified plans.
Installs and maintains Voice facilities, including hardware, software, and system data for small to medium sized networks.
Maintains, tests, researches and resolves problems.
Determines appropriate standard testing routines or scripts; may test various voice or data equipment such as routers, switches, hubs or optical equipment, or multi-function switches, end offices, signaling transfer points, voice mail, and call management system, etc. for maintenance.
Work with vendors to provision, design, maintain and troubleshoot circuit issues.
Primary Skills Required:
4+ years with Cisco VoIP to include Call Manager 6.0, Unity 5 Voice Messaging, Meeting Place, Voice Gateways, UNITY Digital Networking, Gatekeepers in a multi cluster environment.
Minimum 6 years experience in deploying, maintaining and troubleshooting a Cisco VoIP environment.
Extensive knowledge of features like attendant console, hunting groups, CTI route groups, licensing, IP Communicator
Comprehensive understanding of circuit bandwidth relationships and telecommunications concepts to create provisioning install, disconnect and/or change for circuits such as BRI/PRI, ISDN and POTS.
Familiarity with Cisco VoIP phone product lines
Experience with Cisco Meeting Place 2.0 or above. To be able to troubleshoot issues quickly.
Strong Understanding of VoIP concepts such as H323, MGCP, SIP.
Strong QoS skills.
Extensive knowledge of VLANs, QOS, EIGRP, 802.1Q Trunks, in a LAN environment
Secondary Skills/Certifications Desired:
Monitor network utilization, identify and resolve bottlenecks
Firewall Technologies to include ASA , IPS , IDS and CS MARS
Experience with configuring and troubleshooting IOS features.
Configuring Site to Site, Remote Access and SSL VPN's.
Network Access Control ( Cisco NAC)
Cisco Load Balancing Technologies
Cisco Wireless Technologies
Cisco WAAS
CCVP -preferred
CCIE -preferred
CCNA (Voice) - required
**B.S. Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar. preferred
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| Email this Job! | ID#: 27305 |
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| Sr. Systems Engineer (Oracle 10g AS) | Winchester, Virginia | Permanent |
| Expand | Collapse | $100,000 to $125,500 | I'm Interested |
A profitable government services firm seeks a Senior Systems Engineer with experience in Oracle 10g Application Server. This particular position is located in Mt. Weather, VA, which is about 20 minutes west of Leesburg, VA. It is easily commutable for candidates located in Loudon County, VA; Western, Fairfax, VA, and northern Montgomery County, MD.
We are looking for an IT Infrastructure professional, at a senior and hands-on engineer level, who can support the application server infrastructure for a very large Oracle implementation.
Our technical environment includes thousands of servers, millions of user (citizens), and the largest Oracle replication implementation in the world.
The role is onsite at a federal civilian client. While this role does not require a security clearance, it does require that candidates be US Citizens. You will work closely with Project Manager, DBAs, developers, sys admins, architects, and other systems engineers.
Our people actively engage with our clients and other companies to solve business challenges through effective technology integration. Most of our consultants have extensive experience in systems integration and development and are committed to delivering lasting solutions to our clients. We begin by determining our client's current technology state, their needs and developing a path forward to get from the current to the desired state. We help our clients in designing and implementing systems that impact the business and fit within their technology roadmap.
As a leader, each of our people is responsible for managing and delivering solutions during our client engagements that identify, design, and implement technology and business solutions for large complex organizations. You will be responsible for developing, maintaining and growing client relationships and leading project teams from project planning through execution. These integrated project teams will often include specialists from other technical disciplines from within our company, teammates and from our clients.
This senior systems engineer will need at least 4 years of experience with enterprise operations and strong knowledge of deployment, configuration, and architecture of Oracle 10g AS.
Experience with Oracle, Linux, Microsoft Exchange, and Active Directory desirable. Understanding of enterprise operations environment a plus.
-Assist in the deployment of software releases on the Oracle Application Servers.
-Troubleshoot issues with Oracle Grid and Oracle Application Servers.
-Responsible for monitoring and supporting all application servers.
-Creation of Standard Operating Procedures for all software deployments.
-Researching and resolving Remedy Action Requests.
REQUIREMENTS
-Four years in the enterprise operations environment.
-Bachelors Degree or higher.
-Experience with or knowledge of Remedy Action Request System
-Significant application architecture experience with Oracle Application Server
-Experience with enterprise applications such as Oracle, MS Exchange, Active Directory and Remedy
-Experience with IT best practices.
-Excellent writing/documentation skills.
-Ability to work independently or within small teams.
-Experience with Red Hat Linux a plus.
-Significant experience troubleshooting complicated systems problems.
-Experience researching and recommending technology solutions.
-Strong analytical skills
-Excellent oral communication skills, including experience with customer interaction in a help desk environment.
-Knowledge of TCP/IP networking.
DESIRED SKILLS
- Prior consulting experience, preferably in a large consulting firm environment.
- Advanced degree in business or a technology area with a business focus
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| Email this Job! | ID#: 26883 |
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| Senior Cisco Network Engineer | Washington, District of Columbia | Permanent |
| Expand | Collapse | $110,000 to $140,000 | I'm Interested |
Senior Cisco Network Engineer
We are experts in Network design (from conception through implementation, including large-scale routing protocol upgrades and network migrations), Network security (firewalls, intrusion detection, incident response and escalation, security policy articulation and compliance checking), Network performance evaluation and optimization, Troubleshooting, and Infrastructure project management.
We have worked with major enterprise and service provider customers, including federal government networks, market data networks of 2000+ and 3000+ routers, electrical industry networks, and banking and lending institution networks. And our staff has trained and advised the staffs of major telecom service providers, Cisco and several ISPs.
We are currently seeking a Senior Cisco Network Engineer to act as a trusted advisor and consultant for networking as well as many other aspects of IT to our client, a federal government agency. Your mission will be to leverage your management expertise and network design to assist the customer in both long and short term planning as well as to provide leadership for our staff and our client in design and deployments.
Key Requirements:
Solid Cisco networking knowledge and experience
Broad IT background with the ability to speak to all aspects of technology
A professional who will constantly identify opportunities to help the customer, as well as to earn the role of trusted advisor and work with both the customer and vendors to drive improvements
A demonstrateable, successful track record of taking important projects from concept to completion.
While a CCIE is strongly preferred, the skills and experience are most important, and we will help you pursue certifications.
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| Email this Job! | ID#: 26327 |
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| Senior Unified Communications Architect | Arnold, Maryland | Permanent |
| Expand | Collapse | $110,000 to $130,000 | I'm Interested |
Senior Unified Communications Architect
We are experts in Network design (from conception through implementation, including large-scale routing protocol upgrades and network migrations), Network security (firewalls, intrusion detection, incident response and escalation, security policy articulation and compliance checking), Network performance evaluation and optimization, Troubleshooting, and Infrastructure project management.
We have worked with major enterprise and service provider customers, including federal government networks, market data networks of 2000+ and 3000+ routers, electrical industry networks, and banking and lending institution networks. And our staff has trained and advised the staffs of major telecom service providers, Cisco and several ISPs.
We are currently seeking a Senior Unified Communications (UC) Architect in the Washington DC Metro Area to lead design and development of UC solutions to meet customer business requirements. The successful candidate must demonstrate the ability to understand customer needs from a technical and business perspective, architect solutions to support those needs, and lead a dynamic team to implement the strategic architecture.
The Senior UC Architect will work independently and with other engineers to provide exceptional service to clients, and to internally contribute to our UC practice. This responsibility includes identifying areas of business growth through technology, researching vendor products, and developing solutions that bridge business needs with vendor products.
The Senior UC Architect should be able to support the sales and delivery process. This position requires approximately 20-30% pre-sales and 70-80% post-sales delivery.
Candidate responsibilities include:
Work closely with customer decision makers, account managers, Cisco account teams, and partners to identify technical and business requirements
Assist in developing responses to RFPs and RFQs
Assist in writing and presenting statements of work to prospective clients
Develop high level architectural designs and provide authoritative review of generated BoMs
Lead efforts in developing detailed design for Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Unity, UCCX, MeetingPlace, and collaboration technologies
Lead efforts in integrating Cisco UC technologies with Cisco and 3 rd party advanced communications applications
Develop and deliver project documentation
Provide a leadership role to other consultants
Provide an escalation point for troubleshooting service impacting issues
Able to demonstrate technology features and products to audiences with varying levels of technical proficiency
Candidate Certifications:
Minimum CCNP or equivalent experience, CCIE R&S is a plus
Minimum CCVP, CCIE Voice is desirable
MCSE or equivalent experience is a plus
Candidate Experience:
Candidate should have at least 10 years of industry experience with at least 5 years experience with Cisco voice applications and technologies
At least 6 years of designing, implementing, and supporting IP enabled networks
Technical writing experience and good organizational skills are required
Experience with developing applications using the Cisco SOAP/AXL API or Cisco Unified Applications Environment is a plus
Candidate should have in depth understanding and experience with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), Cisco Unity, Cisco Contact Center Express (UCCX), and Cisco voice gateway technologies
Experience with at least two Cisco advanced technologies is desirable
Experience with VoWLAN, SCCP, SIP, H.323, and MGCP is required
Ability to perform protocol analysis for Cisco voice protocol stacks is a plus
Pre-sales and presentation experience is a plus
Candidate Education:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience |
| Email this Job! | ID#: 24384 |
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| Citrix Engineer | Falls Church, Virginia | Contract-To-Permanent |
| Expand | Collapse | $36 to $44 | I'm Interested |
Citrix Engineers
This HireStrategy client is currently seeking Systems Engineers to install, configure and upgrade Citrix Presentation Server, Citrix Access Gateway, VMWare and other Virtualization solutions for a variety of customers. The successful candidate will have solid experience with Citrix Presentation servers in an enterprise-level Windows environment. This is a full time position located in Falls Church, Virginia.
Roles and responsibilities include:
Design, implement and administer Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 and Access Gateway farm
Monitor the technical operation, specifications, and administration of the Citrix server farm
Support Citrix installation upgrades by installing service packs, and resolving service requests
Provide necessary documentation to customers during and after project implementations
Provide knowledge transfer to customers at the completion of projects
Required Experience
Five to six years system administration or systems engineering experience including a minimum of three years of recent Citrix Server experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information systems, Engineering or equivalent work experience
Required Skills
Must have experience implementing Citrix Presentation Server 3.0 or 4.0
Must have experience implementing applications on a Citrix server
Must be able to do application integration and provide communication with customer as to the impact caused by the upgrades
Extensive experience with installation, configuration, management, and troubleshooting on a large Citrix server farm
Experience performing Windows 2000 or 2003 server builds
In-depth knowledge of Citrix Presentation Server, Password Manager, Access Gateway and Advanced Access Controls
Strong knowledge of Microsoft Terminal Server including rights and security configuration in a multi-user environment
Should be knowledgeable with Windows 2000/2003 and Active Directory, DNS, group policy implementation, security policies, and maintenance
Should be knowledgeable in networking, routers, firewalls and V-LANs
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Must be organized and detail-oriented
Must have a team player attitude
Ability to interact with all levels of an organization in a professional, diplomatic, and tactful manner
U.S. Citizenship is required
Certifications:
Preferred - CCEA, CCA, MCSE, MCSA
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| Email this Job! | ID#: 24152 |
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