Wednesday, September 16, 2009

[NE-Financial-Services-IT-Jobs] Digest Number 374

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1a.

Updated - Manager - Unix & Storage Production Support(Hands On) - FS

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:32 am (PDT)




Updated - Open, Active & Hot as of 09-15-2009

Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Position Title – WR712811

Manager – Unix & Storage Production Support (Hands On) - FS – Marlboro, MA
Area - Outstanding Package

Outstanding Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Company

Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm –
Great Company – Lots of Upside – Excellent Compensation Package – Bonus –
Profit Sharing etc. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused
environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth
possibilities.

Position Responsibilities - Summary

This individual, as part of the Production Support team within Enterprise
Technology Services will manage a team that provides 24X7 production support
services for our Unix and storage infrastructure. The right candidate
should have extensive management and technical experience with the ability
to support a global multi-vendor and cross-technology production environment
with strong leadership, crisis resolution, team management, communications,
analytical and decision-making skills. This role will report to the manager
of the production support team.
Managing full-time and consultant staff (professional development,
establishing goals, managing workload, defining and clarifying priorities,
and providing technical direction), budgets, technology vendor relationships
and projects/programs (series of projects).

Key Responsibilities;

· Continuous availability and operational resiliency of Unix/Storage
infrastructure components
· Minimize production risk(s)/issue(s) through oversight and delivery of
people, process and technology services
· Taking ownership of issues in a 24x7 production environment, collaborate
with other teams on remediation and manage them through completion
· Understand business priorities/needs, the IT organization's goals and
enable alignment of the team's operating model, processes and systems to
meet stated objectives and outcomes.
· Providing vision, direction, definition of team activities/priorities and
impact on technology and thought leadership/expertise for the Unix/Storage
team initiatives
· Apply Unix/Storage technology and application domain understanding and
collaborate with teams/peers to implement solutions, systems and processes
to improve our operations and support capabilities.
· Interacting with planning, engineering, delivery and operations teams to
coordinate project activities and support issues. Communicating issues and
status to senior management in the form of status reports, briefings, and
presentations.
· Development of strategy and plans for systems production readiness,
security/audit, monitoring for continued operability in a 24x7 environment,
infrastructure high availability, participation in disaster recovery
planning and testing, adherence to system standards and oversee the
development of automated Unix/storage system provisioning and operational
tools/capabilities.
· Function as a "mentor" for the team and empower employees by dissemination
of personal knowledge, perspective(s) and experience(s)
· Foster a positive culture of creativity, innovation and continuous
improvements of our services and operational capabilities
· Focus on enabling efficiency and productivity enhancements within our
global support staff, processes and our technology/tool(s) portfolio.

Keys to This Position:

1. This is a Senior person that is a Strong Hands on Manager. This
individual will manage 16 resources in the Unix and Storage space. The
candidate should have Strong Leadership skills along with experience in
Budgeting, Project Management and Staff Development. 60% Management/40%
Technical blend. We need a strong Leader with excellent Communication
skills that is Collaborative. The approach and management style are key.
2. This individual will have a strong Operations background that can manage
Production Infrastructure for Unix and Storage. Must have a background
managing a production environment for either Unix or Storage. Unix is more
important of the two. Must have strong Operational Process Knowledge (ITIL,
Change Management, etc.)
3. Technical Requirements: This candidate needs to be close to the
following technologies as a Tech Lead: Solaris, Linux, Veritas, VMware and
EMC with an understanding of Oracle databases.
4. See the first two bullet pointes under Required Skills and Competencies.
5. The candidate should come from a large, mission critical, 24X7 production
environment. Financial services required.
6. A bachelor's degree is required.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· 10+ years experience as a manager/contributor supporting global 24x7 Unix
and storage support teams with distributed multi-server/multi-location
environments
· Hands-on experience in environments with the following technologies:
§ Solaris (Fujitsu Primepower and Sun V-, T-, M- series platforms) and Linux
(Redhat on Sun, IBM and HP platforms)
§ Veritas storage foundation suite
§ Virtualization with VMWare and SRDF based (or similar) replication
solutions
§ EMC, NetApps, Celera and Acopia (F5) SAN and NAS based storage subsystems
§ Functional understanding of Oracle databases, Weblogic application servers
and MQ messaging
· Ability to function/lead autonomously in a collaborative culture with
focus on business outcome(s), impact to the firm and client service
orientation
· Experience in leading, delegation and also having the technical expertise
to get "hand-on" involved as/when the need arises.
· A personal style, commitment and communication ability that allows you to
partner with IS peers and teams to work productively and efficiently.
· Strong delivery/operations leadership, change agent, motivation to take on
and lead new initiatives and willingness to learn and grow self (in areas of
technical and management skills)
· Good understanding of the financial services industry, business
priorities/workflow and it's associated IT infrastructure, system and
application needs
· Prior experience with designing, staffing and operationalizing a Network
Operations center (NOC) will be a plus
· Advanced degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB
Site – www.wrightassociates.org

2a.

Sr. Systems Engineer (Windows Server & VMware) - FS - Marlboro, MA A

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:32 am (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Still Open & Active as of 09-15-2009

Position Title – WR712351

Sr. System Engineer (Windows Server & VMware) - FS – Marlboro, MA Area -
Outstanding Package

Outstanding Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Company

Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm –
Great Company – Lots of Upside – Excellent Compensation Package – Bonus –
Profit Sharing etc. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused
environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth
possibilities.

Position Responsibilities - Summary

The Senior Systems Engineer will contribute to the overall engineering,
design, build and provide high level support of all existing and new Windows
Server infrastructure. As a senior member of the team, the successful
candidate will need to work closely with our internal clients to develop
consensus and find solutions to problems facing their business constituents.

Detailed Responsibilities;

· Monitor windows environment for anomalies and errors, reporting
and escalation of issues.
· Provide the required daily support, maintenance, and management of
the platforms.
· Provide Level III support and repair, as well as escalation to the
Business Application Group and/or Operations.
· Manager enterprise applications responsible for server builds,
patch management, virtual machine management, virus scanning, etc.
· Develop and maintain high standards in establishing procedures and
policies to address routine jobs and certain resolution protocols.
· Meet or exceed SLA obligations consistently and on an ongoing
basis, allow for accurate metrics to measure response time, meet BCP
requirements for offsite access, and reduce the time needed to address
hardware/software failures.

Keys to This Position:

1. We are looking for a Very Senior Windows Systems Engineer that has
strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
2. In-depth Knowledge of VMware architecture and hands on experience with
V-motion, ESX Ranger and other virtual management software. VMware and ESX
are required. The most recent version of ESX is 3.x
3. We are presently using Windows 2003 server and will be migrating to
Windows 2008. The candidate needs to have 2003 server (2008 would be a
plus).
4. Strong Active Directory and Microsoft Clustering skills are required.
5. The candidate should come from a large production environment - (700+
Windows Servers globally)

Required Skills and Competencies:

· 8+ years of managing a Windows Server environment (Windows 2003
Server required)
· In-depth Knowledge of VMware architecture and hands on experience
with V-motion, ESX Ranger and other virtual management software
· Extensive experience with Microsoft Clustering
· Ability to troubleshoot and problem solve independently
· The ability to design and build an Active Directory infrastructure
· Hands on management of an Active Directory infrastructure
· Proficiency in DNS, DHCP and other naming services
· Server management with an emphasis on HP servers
· In-depth Knowledge of disk management with SAN, NAS and local
storage with an emphasis on disk layout and performance
· Strong systems engineering skills with an emphasis on enterprise
scale architecture
· LINUX skills are highly desired.
· Understanding of High Availability, Business Continuity, and
Disaster Recovery concepts as they relate to Open Systems architecture.

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB
Site – www.wrightassociates.org

3a.

Systems Engineer (Windows Server & Exchange) - FS - Marlboro, MA Are

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:42 am (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Still Open & Active as of 09-15-2009

Position Title – WR713651

System Engineer (Windows Server & Exchange) - FS – Marlboro, MA Area -
Outstanding Package

Outstanding Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Company

Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm –
Great Company – Lots of Upside – Excellent Compensation Package – Bonus –
Profit Sharing etc. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused
environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth
possibilities.

Position Responsibilities - Summary

The ETS Communication's team seeks a Systems Engineer who will be
responsible for the engineering, roll out, and operational support of
messaging and communications products.
This individual will be primarily responsible for planning, architecture,
implementation and support of our messaging and communications
infrastructure for high availability, recoverability and reliability.

Key Responsibilities;

· Work on the architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and
support of the messaging and communications infrastructure
· Support the messaging and communications infrastructure as part of
an on call rotation
· Develop infrastructure standards, best practices and guidelines

Keys to This Position:

1. Strong analytical skills - ability to diagnose the interoperability
of a diverse set of technologies such as Exchange, Active Directory, VOIP,
SQL and A/V (The candidate should have 80% of these 5). Other key
technologies include OCS, Oracle, MOSS, SAN, TCIP, SIP, Avaya.
2. Strong system analysis, architecture, design and administration
skills. The position breaks down as follows: 50% system engineering &
administration, 35% infrastructure design and architecture practices, 15%
Project related tasks: working with support engineers, vendors and
developers across teams
3. Very close to the technology - design, configure and support
messaging and communications products
4. Strong knowledge of ITIL practices - Configuration, Change and
Release Management
5. The candidate should come from a large production environment -
(700+ Windows Servers globally)
6. Strong Infrastructure Management background - capacity planning,
performance management and security

Required Skills and Competencies:

· 7+ years experience supporting Microsoft Exchange
· Extensive experience in design, maintenance and support of an
Exchange infrastructure including performance, capacity, recovery
technologies for DR and HA, and journaling for compliance
· Knowledge of industry best practices related to email routing,
filtering, monitoring, storage, backup and disaster recovery is required
· Strong interpersonal skills and a proven record for attention to
detail
· A proven ability to interact successfully with clients, and
maintain open communications at all times
· Application Experience in Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2003,
Active Directory, Iron Mail, Blackberry Enterprise Server, OCS 2007,
Symantec Enterprise Vault
· Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field of study and
5 plus years related experience is a must.

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB
Site – www.wrightassociates.org

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