IT Help Wanted: [itroundtable] FW: Design Lead - NEW YORK, NY. No Corp to Corp. This is a contract for up to 18 months.

Monday, March 10, 2014

[itroundtable] FW: Design Lead - NEW YORK, NY. No Corp to Corp. This is a contract for up to 18 months.

If anybody meets the requirements, please contact Clifton

From: Clifton Jadoo [mailto:clifton.jadoo@axelon.com]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 3:49 PM
To: scott.sommer@ieee.org
Subject: Design Lead - NEW YORK, NY. No Corp to Corp. This is a contract for up to 18 months.

03/10/14 3:02 PM
Hello,
My name is Clifton and I'm a recruiter at Axelon Services Corporation. We have your resume on file and I thought you may be interested in an opportunity we currently have available for a Design Lead with a major financial company located in NEW YORK, NY. No Corp to Corp. This is a contract for up to 18 months.
Please review the job description below. If you are qualified and interested in pursuing this opportunity, please call me at (212) 384-6508 ASAP. You may also send me an e-mail, if you do respond via e-mail please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP.
If you do not feel like you are a good fit, but you know someone, perhaps junior to you, who is looking for a temporary assignment without a heavy skill set required, please feel free to forward this email onto them. I also encourage you to visit our website at www.axelon.com for all of our job openings.
Minimum 10yrs (Windows Server) experience in IT infrastructure design or support.

Can design an entire system configuration including hardware, software, and communications.

Can define a total disaster recovery plan and present the client with various options
Work with and manage multiple suppliers

Specific responsibilities include, but not limited to:
Identify applications as candidates for virtualization migration and provide infrastructure design of Client platform
Translating Business Requirements to Technical Requirements
Matching Technical Requirements to standard product offerings
Determining potential hosting environments for new applications
Create and maintain the Technical Requirements Document (TRD)
Create and maintain the Infrastructure Design Document (IDD)
Create and maintain any hardware / project cost estimations (CWB)
Maintaining all documentation in the common document repository
Interfacing with Engineering teams as required for the project (Internal Design Reviews)
Interfacing with the PM and Business Partner as required for the project (External Design Reviews)
Maintaining the current status of each design request and providing a weekly update to the management team
Completing all design requests via the Workflow process on time
Team Responsibilities includes, but not limited to:
Accurately track and submit time spent on each work effort
Use the DMAIC framework for all design projects
Following through on process improvement opportunities, using the past to learn for the future
Maintaining a consistent focus throughout the design project on the customer and business goals of the project.
Demonstrate Clien core values

Required technical skills include:
Virtualization (ESX)
Data Center Migrations
Broad technology expertise across the following technology product area is required. Deep subject matter expertise in one or more is desirable.
oMid-Range Hardware / Operating systems - SUN,HP, IBM; Solaris, Linux, Windows Server
oMid-Range Storage -EMC, Hitachi, SAN, NAS - Network Appliance, NFS, CIFS, GFS. Etc
oMiddleware Hosting - BEA Weblogic, MS IIS, Sun One Java Webserver, JBoss etc.
oMessaging Platforms - IBM WebSphere MQ, BEA JMS, Tibco RV/RD, Sonic MQ, UI Empire
oNetwork Infrastructure - BigIP, 3DNS
Strong communication skills are key
+MS Office products (Visio, Project, Word, Excel, Outlook
Other Criteria:
Previous Brokerage GWIM technology experience is preferred
Large financial firm/ Bank experience required

***potential to Split time between NYC office and Hopewell, NJ office****

Note: Please allow me to reiterate that I chose to contact you either because your resume had been posted to one of the internet job sites to which we subscribe, or you had previously submitted your resume to Axelon. I assumed that you are either looking for a new employment opportunity, or you are interested in investigating the current job market.
If you are not currently seeking employment, or if you would prefer I contact you at some later date, please indicate your date of availability so that I may honor your request. In any event, I respectfully recommend you continue to avail yourself to the employment options and job market information we provide with our e-mail notices.
Thank you,
Clifton Jadoo

Axelon Services Corporation
44 Wall Street 18th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Phone: (212) 384-6508 or (877) 711-8700
Fax : (212) 306-0191
clifton.jadoo@axelon.com

For more job opportunities: www.axelon.com