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Next Step Systems
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Industry:
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Software
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Function:
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LAN Administration
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Location:
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Chicago, IL
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REF Code:
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Position Level:
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Experienced
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Position Type:
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Full Time
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Salary:
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$75 - 100K
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$85-$100K
Technology skills: UNIX, Sun Solaris, Perl Scripting, Shell Scripting
The primary focus of this position is the operational support of multiple, remote, proprietary financial environments. This involves performance monitoring and analysis and the development of improved monitoring methodologies, tools, and systems reporting processes.
Responsibilities:
-Provide first level technical support for financial staff.
-Communicate systems related issues to financial staff.
-Understand the architecture of the financial environment.
-Manage the startup of the financial environment.
-Monitor the financial environment and identify and report system failures and inefficiencies.
-Understand the purpose of the applications used by the financial staff.
-Understand how these applications are accessed by the fianncial staff.
-Understand the communications needs and expected behavior of these applications.
-Troubleshoot and resolve unexpected application or system behavior.
-Recommend improvements to facilitate better management and monitoring of the environment.
Qualifications:
-BS in Computer Science or 2 to 3 years work experience as a UNIX systems administrator.
-Knowledge of the UNIX operating system (Solaris and Linux preferred).
-Strong Perl and Shell Programming skills.
-C and C++ knowledge is a plus.
-Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with users.
-Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
-Self-motivated with interest in learning new applications and systems.
-Ability to handle multiple issues of varying priority effectively.
-Ability to work unsupervised.
Often there are several phases of projects running concurrently. This requires identifying solutions to problems, specifying projects, recommending schedules and priorities for projects, and programming solutions to these problems. All these phases must be coordinated to achieve results that satisfy both users needs and desires as effectively as possible.
User support is a major facet of this position. The availability of the systems and applications are critical to the function of the business and the end-users and therefore must be monitored on an on-going basis to ensure problem free use and smooth operation through training, guidance, and ongoing support when problems are encountered. Feedback from users is critical to enhancing system administration. This position must promote and use that feedback to improve the service provided.
Contact information:
Gina Gomulka
gina@nextstepsystems.com
Next Step Systems
www.nextstepsystems.com
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Contact:
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Gina Gomulka
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Phone:
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630-428-0600
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Fax:
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E-mail:
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gina@nextstepsystems.com
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Next Step Systems
Next Step Systems is a recruiting firm specializing in permanent employment of Information Technology (IT) Professionals. We work with candidates and jobs at all levels. We are currently working on 200+ full-time technical positions nationally. We're a Chicago based Technical Employment Service that has computer job openings across the country.
Here is a partial list of recent positions and titles:
Programmer-Developer-Business/Systems Analyst - Quality Assurance
Database Administrator-Datawarehouse-Data Modeling
LAN, WAN and SAN Administrator-Network Engineer-Systems Support
Technical Sales-Sales Support Engineer- Account Manager
Project Leader -Manager - Director-VP-B CTO-CIO
If you are on the job market and have technical or computer skills, please send your resume with salary expectations to jobs@nextstepsystems.com.
We are Information Technology recruiting specialists, providing a personalized service to fit the changing needs of our job seeker clients and our employer clients. From technical jobs in Chicago to network jobs in Philadelphia and Denver, we have been successful. Visit us on the web at http://www.nextstepsystems.com.
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