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Please review my below requirement and let me know your interest as soon as possible. * * *Position Name: Sr.**Operating Systems Engineer. Duration: 9 Months contract to hire Location: Pittsburg, PA*** *Skill Set: **MCSE; Microsoft Visual Studio Team System platform* *Experience:** 5+ years experience supporting software development teams* *Work Authorization: Need GC or Citizen Only* ** *Please mark cc resume at [email protected] * * Job Description* Under general direction of the management team, maintains systems software and purchased systems software packages, determines and resolves problems occurring in systems software or hardware and acts as a technical liaison to computer manufacturers. Some programming will be required to accomplish system to system interfaces. Will assume on-call support responsibility on occasion. This person needs to have a broad, deep background in all aspects of system engineering on a Microsoft platform, including networking, security, hosting data-driven web applications and supporting software development processes and tools. Experience installing, configuring and managing Visual Studio Team System and Project Server is highly preferred. Client may elect to hire the resource utilized in this position after 6 months. *Responsibilities**:* - Provides service to ISD client community, patients, families and visitors, while protecting the integrity and confidentiality of all data and information through physical and electronic measures. - Determine the cause of systems software or hardware problems, arrive at a solution, and implement appropriate actions to correct. - Install all system software, upgrades, or new releases, all utility software, all program temporary fixes. Perform system gens as required. Do so in a manner that will not cause a major disruption to the production environment. - Assist programming personnel and operations personnel with technical problems and their resolution. Provide operator or client with information on new or modified systems. - Maintain and use all appropriate technical manuals and documentation for the computer hardware and software installed at Information Services. Maintain current information on recent trends of computer hardware and software. - Write, debug, test and document any specialized programs required to interface with systems software or between hardware units. - Ensure performance considerations are designed into system configurations and maintain a formal methodology for reporting performance. - Provide on-call support (non-business hours) at established times in accordance with policies and procedures of the Information Services Division. - Provide clients of Information Services with the necessary procedures and documentation needed to operate systems. - Provide support as required by ISD’s Disaster Recovery Plan. - Additionally, this position may be required to maintain a stand by status as part of a rotation within the team. This requires 24 hours per day, 7 days per week availability during the stand by period. The frequency varies based upon the number of colleagues in the rotation. - Candidate must be highly motivated to follow project management, systems/software processes, measurement disciplines, and process improvement (CMMI) to improve product and services quality to achieve business objectives. - Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors. - Performs other duties as assigned. * * *Individual Modality Responsibilities**:* *Systems Infrastructure, Operations, and Engineering* - Conducts platform studies and performance analyses and recommends changes - Designing methods/tunes systems/servers/networks to high performance - Leads implementation and deployment efforts - Leads review of vendor proposals - Evaluates operating system/platform/environment/ network change implementation options, benefits and risks, and recommends most appropriate direction - Creates solution to resolve complex operational problems, collaborating with vendors and users as required, and identifying trends that warrant immediate attention Provides guidance to management in predicting performance and capacity and addressing related issues *Systems Administration and Support* - Performs performance tuning, error tracking, and debugging - Develops and executes complex change implementation plans - Projects performance and capacity - Resolves complex operational problems and determines root cause - Demonstrates in-depth understanding of system/servers and utilities by designing and implementing configuration - Executes thorough disaster recovery testing procedures - Performs system management for complex development efforts - Works with development team to configure and troubleshoot applications - Sets up most development environments with little or no supervision from lead system administrator *Operating System Programming* - Formulates/defines specifications for operating system programming - Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents operating system software for an entire computing platform, large communication network, advanced system utility, or control package - Modifies, maintains existing operating system software using engineering releases and utilities from the manufacturer *Hardware / Platform Engineering & Support* - Develops specification of complex platform hardware components - Designs complex hardware/platform infrastructure and interfaces - Performs complex hardware sizing - Troubleshoots complex hardware problems - Performs as hardware resource lead on most projects - Leads the documentation and maintenance of hardware platform policies and procedures - Develops High Availability hardware platform designs *Systems Technical Support* - Plans, coordinates, develops, and maintains operating systems, regardless of complexity - Answers complex technical questions and corrects deficiencies in operating systems or related software - Acts as project leader for projects dealing with overall operating system, mainframe, network, etc. - Acts as primary technical contact for a complex technology *Project Management Skills* - Works with project manager to develop realistic work estimates, financial budgets, and project schedules - Assists and mentors others involved with project planning and execution - Measures progress toward goals and revises work plan accordingly - Reviews project deliverables for accuracy and provides assistance and mentoring to others - Proactively apprises management of issues effecting project status and offer solutions to solve the issues *Via Oncology Requirements**:* A senior-level position responsible for and collaborating on many different critical areas: · Participates in architecture and design discussions relevant to platform choices, security, networking and connectivity. · Tier II support, attempting to troubleshoot server issues that may not require developer resources. · Installation, configuration and management of dev/test servers, including any software tools and processes. Also provides Via Oncology staff with PC/laptop support as needed. · Acts as the build manager, performs all deployments, configures and performs monitoring of all applications, processes and servers and manages system backups, server maintenance, platform upgrades, etc. · Acts as the technical liaison between Via Oncology and our hosting service provider, as well as potential interface development contractors/partners. *__** With Regards, Kamal Pandey *Technical Recruiter *Ask IT Consulting** *You Ask, We Deliver! Phone : 631-869-4700 Fax No: 631-803-4488 Email : *[email protected] <[email protected]> URL : http://www.askitc.com Yahoo IM: komal_90pandey GTalk: kamal.askit
