Infrastructure Architect must have the following skills:

• The holder of the vision across the enterprise, working closely with the stakeholders, selling the vision.
• Takes a holistic view and communicate to others to be able to understand the enterprise view to ensure coherence of all aspects of the project as an integrated system
• Experience leading major infrastructure migration initiatives
• Experience with data center automation initiatives and multiple data center configurations
• The ability to analyzes existing systems through an interview process with technology SMEs to develop a complete end-to-end Current State Architecture to drive and define the Future State Architecture
• The ability to document end-to-end application transaction flows through the enterprise
• Perform gap analysis between current state and the future state architecture to identify single points of failure, capabilities, capacity, fault tolerance, hours of operation (SLA), change windows,
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong facilitation and interviewing skills
• Resolve conflicts within infrastructure and application teams, business units and other architects
• Ability to work independently
• Good initiative and organization skills
• Deep knowledge specialist in a particular area such as infrastructure, process, and data
• If required can play the role of a solution architect.
• Market architecture best practices, guidelines, standards, principles, and patterns while working with infrastructure and technology project teams.
• Identify opportunities to cut cost without sacrificing the overall business goals.

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

 Technical skills:

• Be the point of escalation for complex AD issues
• Have a solid understanding of the Windows kernel, registry, network services
• Work with tightly-aligned 2nd and 3rd level technicians to ensure world-class level of service
• Define, prioritize, schedule, and monitor technical projects
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation
• Experience with build automation, patch management, automated deployments and packaging
• Experience with backup tools (e.g., Veritas NetBackup)
• Experience with email archiving (e.g., KVS Enterprise Vault, Legato EmailXtender)
• Experience with Microsoft Cluster Services
• Experience with MOM
• Experience with anti-spam, anti-virus products

 ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

• SQL Server 2000/2005
• Strong familiarity with networking technologies: TCP/IP, DHCP, WINS, LDAP, DNS, SMTP, OWA, IMAP4, etc.
• Strong familiarity with storage technologies: SAN, NAS, CAS, EMC DMX, Clariion, Celera/NSX, Centera
• Strong experience with Citrix and distributed desktop environments and deployments
• Findustry experience preferred
• Familiarity with RedHat Linux Experience with ASP.NET/C# (particularly ASP.NET/WCF Web Services)
• Knowledge of with WinRM/WMI, preferably through C#, though PowerShell/VBScript are also acceptable.
• Familiarity with customizing MS deployment technologies… MDT 2010/2012 (LiteTouch and ZeroTouch), SCCM 2007/2012 OSD.
• Familiarity with Linux shell commands used in troubleshooting (tcpdump, lsof) etc.

Personal Skills:

• Have a hands-on, proactive attitude – an individual who truly enjoys complex technical challenges and takes pride in their work
• Serve as the subject-matter expert for the technologies above
• Be a self-motivated team player with a highly collaborative outlook
• Ready, willing and able to mentor junior personnel
• Able to set priorities and manage deadlines, project plans, work with other senior technologists, project managers, senior management, and power users
• Have experience in and be comfortable with demanding users in a high-pressure, 24×7 environment

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

Required Skills

• Install and configure PeopleSoft Financials and HR software in a Windows Server Platform.
• Troubleshoot processes uses by the PeopleSoft systems
• Monitor the performance and report on these monthly or as required
• Design & implement test and development environment
• Strong customer service, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to create and deliver status and project level presentations to business sponsors.
• Participation in “on-call” service rotation
• Upgrade software components and participate in hardware design
• Provide internal customers with technical support
• Provide cross training to peers in order to maintain a 3 person support structure
• Provide input into virtualization or the environment as feasible
• Provide proof concept, project documentation and lead/manage projects as needed in the area of PeopleSoft.

Required Experience

• 6+ years experience with PeopleSoft Administration. Must be proficient in the following areas: PeopleSoft PeopleTools and Application Installations, PeopleTools and Application Upgrades, Integration Broker, Environment Creation, Database Refreshes, Change Management, Migration of Objects, Performance Tuning , STAT administration and Production Support.
• Must have at least 4 years of experience with PeopleSoft Migrations
• Must have at least 4 years of experience with PeopleTools 8.x/9.x Administration
• Must have a working knowledge of PeopleSoft Architecture (Application, Web Server, Process Scheduler)
• Must have at least 4 years of experience working in windows 2003/2008 R2.
• Must have experience migrating PeopleSoft objects from one environment to another.
• Must have at least 4 years’ experience in SQL server 2005/2008.
• Experience in STAT 5.6 administration.
• Bachelors Degree preferred

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

Responsibilities:

• Support 24x7x365 mission-critical database and application infrastructure, including participation in an on-call schedule.
• Prepare database for heavy event-based processing peaks which may exceed average daily transaction processing by several orders of magnitude.
• Support Business Intelligence group with development of Enterprise Reporting Solutions, OLAP Reporting, Data Marts and Star Schemas in support of enterprise reporting and analytics.
• Responsible for Performance Tuning by monitoring efficient use of memory and CPU resources.
• Responsible for monitoring alert logs, dump files and other logs for errors.
• Identify performance bottlenecks due to waits and suggestions on how to address them.
• Provide SQL Server database administration and support for development and production databases in a distributed environment.
• Promote/migrate SQL-Server objects from development to production instances.
• Work with application teams in creating supportable development, test, and production environments for application databases.

 Job Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Engineering or a related field.
• 7+ years database design/architecture experience in a Microsoft SQL Server environment.
• 5+ years database administration operations experience in a Microsoft SQL Server environment.
• Expert in physical data modeling and documentation.
• Expert knowledge of Transact SQL.
• Expert in strategies and approaches for physical database design, performance optimization, clustering and database replication.
• Experience with integration of SQL Server to any version control system.
• Experience with SQL Server 2005, SQL Clustering, Log shipping, and High-Availability highly desirable.
• Ability to perform code and design reviews.
• Experience working with different editions of SQL Server namely MSDE, Standard, Developer and Enterprise and familiarity with their usage and limitations.
• Knowledge related to computer hardware including networks and storage devices (SANS).
• Solid understanding of Windows environment, RAID Levels, etc.
• Experience in quality assurance process.
• Knowledge and understanding of disk capacity planning and monitoring.
• Data migration and integration experience.
• The following skill levels are a plus:
• MCDBA (Microsoft Certified Database Administrator)¬
• Knowledge of the .NET platform and services oriented architecture ¬
• MySQL Experience a plus¬
• Experience with multi-platform data extract, transform and/or load (ETL) processes and OLAP, query and/or extract tools and others¬
• Experience with SQL LiteSpeed, Lumigent LogExplorer, a plus¬
• Knowledge of SAN*s/Network Appliance storage hardware a plus¬
• Knowledge of SQL Server 2008
• Must possess excellent communication, organizational skills and project management skills.
• Must be self-directed and effective working independently, yet equally comfortable contributing in a team environment.
• Ability to handle multiple projects with competing deadlines in a fast paced environment.
• eCommerce experience preferred.
• Hands on experience on a fast paced internal development team.

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

• Strong leadership—must be able to direct, mentor & guide a team of test engineers
• Customer facing—must be able to engage cross functionally to include the business, development, etc to drive ideas and deliver solutions across the enterprise
• Strong technical skills to include the formulation & execution of a test strategy. Creation of test plans, scripts, etc.
• Experience supporting an eCommerce & .NET platform
• Will own the test engs, automation engineers and deployment
• Leverage QTP tool and move the organization to be more automated—mostly a manual env today
• Automation engs develop the scripts
• Regression, integration & performance testing
• Identify inefficiencies across the organization and create a plan to address those
• Use element tool to track bugs but there is no standardized approach for this to ensure communication across the enterprise

Responsibilities:

• Provide necessary definition, development, and implementation of the quality assurance strategy.
• Supervise Quality Assurance staff including the preparation and delivery of performance evaluations and career development.
• Leveraging industry accepted best practices, develop, maintain, and train all QA personnel on quality tools, processes, and procedures including automated regression testing, stress/load testing, etc
• Developing and managing key performance metrics including product quality and engineering effectiveness and defect profiles. Working with the respective engineering teams to ensure that quality issues are addressed as quickly as possible.

• Working with the support organization to ensure that root cause of any production issue is identified and mitigated against future occurrences.

 Qualifications:

• Minimum of 7 years hands on experience developing regression and unit test plans, managing defects, and implementing stress/load/volume/automated testing of WinForm and Internet (both web and SOA) applications.
• Experience with HP QuickTest Professional, Microsoft Visual Studio testing frameworks, and Selenium are a plus.
• Hands on experience using profiling tools with .NET based applications to identify potential application bottlenecks.
• Minimum of 3 years in a lead role or management position.
• Must have the desire for achieving excellence in customer satisfaction, process, product quality, and reliability. Must process strong leadership skills that inspire the team to strive for the same.
• Excellent problem solving, interpersonal communication, project management skills a must.
• Must be extremely detailed-oriented in regards to verbal and written documentation and communication.
• BS/BA in computer science, engineering or related discipline.

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop database schemas, PL/SQL stored procedures, and database maintenance scripts.
• Maintain several Oracle development databases.
• Design and develop data warehouse components for a large (several terabyte, over 500 million rows collected daily) data warehouse.
• Develop SQL reports.
• Develop scripts using Perl, Python, and Java.
• Work with application developers to define database requirements.
• Optimize and tune database routines and sql.
• Define and implement database development products.
• Develop schemas for, and load, mapping data into Oracle databases.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Management Information Systems
• Possess a minimum of five years of software development experience with Oracle including SQL, PL/SQL, and tuning.
• Knowledge of OLTP and OLAP database design
• 2+ years experience with Perl.
• Experience with PHP and SAS preferred.
• Understanding of Oracle internal structures and DBA functionality.
• Import, Export, DataPump, and SQL*Loader experience.
• Proficient oral and written communication skills
• Must be a team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Proven ability to work independently with limited supervision
• Creative, resourceful and innovative problem solver
• Self-taught and self-teaching, with a demonstrated aptitude for acquiring knowledge and skills

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to the EDW team – 5 onshore employees and 7 offshore contractors
• Understand what metrics are important to our business
• Understand business needs and create a data architecture / model vision
• Partner with the business and provide clear visibility to the team in terms of project priorities
• Execute and deliver on projects – dates, business benefits, costs

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other equivalent or related field. Advanced degree and/or certifications preferred
• 8-10 years of experience in IT with emphasis in EDW
• Practical knowledge of EDW, specifically Business Objects
• Experience in resource (people and capital) management, capacity planning, organizing and planning projects.

Leadership Style & Culture:

• Young, startup type company
• Need a dynamic, business oriented, tech savvy leader
• Create a service mindset in the team
• Value speed-to-market, quick turn-around

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

Qualifications

• BSEE or equivalent degree
• Experience in the Satellite/RF Engineering field with a leadership role in product or service development
• Experience developing technical specifications, test plans and procedures, and service level agreements
• Experience in leading a team of engineers with responsibilities for vendor management, contracts, cost, schedule, processes and technology development

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with Product Management and development team to ensure testable user stories are created and estimated
• Works with Product Management in determining acceptance criteria for user stories
• Recommends test approach, test environment requirements and data strategies
• Executing a testing process that fits within our Agile development life cycle
• Works closely with development team to identify and resolve issues
• Analyze, design and maintain test artifacts
• Create and/or set up test environments and test data
• Develop and execute automated and manual tests

REQUIREMENTS:

• BS in a technical discipline or
• 5+ years of test engineering experience
• Deep knowledge of test methodologies and debugging
• 3 years of development and/or test automation experience
• Excellent coding skills in C, C++, Java or Python with scripting skills in at least one common language (Perl, Python or Shell)
• Highly proficient in a Unix/Linux environment
• Experience testing large structured data sets
• Database/SQL experience (Oracle)
• Performance testing a plus
• Strong communication skills
• Must be a team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Proven ability to work independently with limited supervision
• Creative, resourceful and innovative problem solver
• Self-taught and self-teaching, with a demonstrated aptitude for acquiring knowledge and skills

Highly Desired Skills

• Excellent knowledge and proven, multi-year experience in Agile/Lean development environments performing testing

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

Position Description:

•  Work on the development of the relational database, OLAP and ETL aspects of a new system rewrite.
• Create a uniform calculation, production reporting, and ad hoc reporting and analytics platform for all surveys – Cost, Revenue, Household, YOE.
• The project is intended to replace and enhance only the analytics and reporting components of the survey systems
• Design & develop DB2/MS SQL Server Relational, ETL & OLAP
• Work with BI Lead & .NET Lead to own/implement data modeling & data manipulation changes\
• Implement views, stored procedures, functions etc. as required by SSAS cube & .NET Application
• Data migration from legacy system
• Performance tuning of the Relational database, SSAS & ETL
• Contribute to technical architecture discussions

Requirements:

•  Min education required: BSc
• Min 2 -5 yrs work experience required
• SSAS, ETL & OLAP experience required
• MDX experience min. of 2 years a plus
• Strong Business Intelligence experience a must
• Domain Expertise required
• Strong communication skills

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/