Contract - Technology Specialist

Contract - Technology Specialist

ESP Systems Professionals is an industry leader in the recruitment of Information Technology professionals. We place technical IT personnel, from programmers to senior level executives in permanent and contract positions. No other company knows IT recruiting as well as ESP.

Our client is looking for a skilled Technology Specialist to monitor the performance of company IT systems and applications.  This individual will create and manage tools that detect and sometimes correct system and application problems. The monitoring will focus on network devices, server hardware, server operating systems, middle tier services, databases, and applications. The Specialist must have excellent skills at diagnosing and troubleshooting complex technical issues both correctly and quickly. In many cases this role will restore service. They will also design, develop, deploy, and manage new, custom monitoring and alerting tools, using scripting, web technologies, applications, and databases. The Technology Specialist will be part of a team that communicates incidents to other IT teams, if needed, while maintaining complete documentation regarding alerts, procedures, and processes.

Responsibilities:
-Monitor infrastructure systems and applications, including 24x7x52 operations
-Develop scripts and applications to monitor system and application performance
-Use Web technologies (ASPX, ASP, CSS, DHTML, and JavaScript) to display SQL-based data
-Respond to alerts, with quick troubleshooting and diagnosing leading to appropriate resolutions or escalations
-Design or enhance monitoring and alerting systems, including custom-built tools
-Develop and maintain current, easy-to-understand documentation for an advanced technical audience
-Develop value-added monitoring tools and enhance existing monitoring tools, all in accordance with company IT standards
-Provide after-hours Help Desk services
-Perform after-hours Data Center tasks, such as network backup services
-Develop and deploy value-added services such as fault problem prevention, performance benchmarking, and troubleshooting expertise

Qualifications:
-Four-year college degree in a technical area, such as computer science, computer programming, software engineering, and the like, or demonstrated intellectual skills at mastering the mechanistic underpinnings of new technologies
-Microsoft Windows 2003 server troubleshooting experience, with MSCE a plus
-Demonstrated success at mastering new technologies with minimal management direction
-Proven knowledge of scripting (VBScript or JavaScript) or knowledge of an object-oriented language, such as VB .NET
-Very strong written communication skills
-Demonstrated success at multi-tasking in a complex technical environment
-Candidate must be a team player
-Willingness to work overnight and weekends