Our GLOBAL Client located in the Chicago suburbs, currently seeks an IT SOLUTIONS ENGINEER. This is a 3-6 month CONTRACT positon.

IT SOLUTIONS ENGINEER


Position Description:


Research, plan and deliver IT infrastructure and application enabling solutions to support the business needs of the Client. Candidate will play key role in evolution of new IT infrastructure and application services leveraging primarily IBM iSeries and IBM BladeCenter server technology coupled to a CISCO LAN / WAN Networking infrastructure.


Position Responsibilities:



· Provide engineering and ongoing system administration guidance for infrastructure which centers on IBM iSeries and BladeCenter hardware platforms hosting primarily IBM i5/OS and Linux operating systems with some Windows 2003 server instances.

· Lead Infrastructure initiatives and help provide leadership and support to the IT support areas to resolve operational issues.

· Participate in IT directional planning for the use of infrastructure solutions.

· Assist in the development of IT standards, policies and processes.

· Collaborate with internal and external customers to achieve defined goals while fostering and maintaining good business relationships internal and external.

· Coordinate inter-departmental activities with other areas as required for projects.

· Own lead technical engineer / architect role in projects.

· Help create and foster a team environment.

· Perform the following as required:

- Travel to international and domestic sites in support of project, task, assignment, or educational enhancement.

- Report to work during non-scheduled hours if / when required.



Qualifications:



· Candidate should come from a medium to large scale data center environment with a high-availability, continuous-improvement and service delivery orientation.

· Minimum of 8 years professional experience in a relevant infrastructure engineering / administration role.

· Strong technical aptitude coupled with good logical / analytical skills.

· Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

· Strong verbal and written communications skills.

· Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate and persuade at all management levels.

· Project Management Experience.

· Experience in developing strategic plans.

· Experience with any of the following is considered a plus: ITIL, SAS-70, Sarbanes-Oxley, C-TPAT.



Technical Knowledge:



Required:

· 5+ years technical experience with IBM iSeries hardware, i5/OS operating system and iSeries storage subsystems.

· 3+ years experience with IBM BladeCenter Servers

· 3+ years experience with Linux Operating System environments

· 3+ years experience with LAN / WAN networking in a CISCO environment.

(Above experience should be demonstrated by professional experience in Infrastructure Engineering / Administration roles)



Preferred: Experience with any of the following will be considered a plus.

· IBM Websphere Portal Server

· LOTUS Domino

· APACHE

· VOIP

· VMware

· SAP

· CITRIX

· LDAP

· Windows2003 Server

· DB2

· Oracle

· SQL



Successful candidates will possess the following characteristics:

· Willingness and ability to pursue and grasp new technical / functional skills

· Strong personal ownership

· Outstanding logic and troubleshooting skills

· Strong ability to multitask

· Results oriented

· Relationship builder

· Teamwork orientation

· Enterprise focus

· Creative thinker

· Problem solver

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