Config Manager

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We are looking for a SCOM/SCCM PFE and a SPS Dev PFE in New York, NY as well as a Platforms PFE in Bentonville, AR and Dearborn, MI.. Know anyone interested, please ping Dana Whitley (dminshew@microsoft.com)

You can bet the PFE in AR is going to be working at Wal-Mart.

Regards,
Anthony

Anthony Clendenen | Solutions Engineer | 1E

Microsoft MVP System Center Configuration Manager

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My client is seeking an SMS Administrator to join their operations team in Seattle. The ideal candidate must be passionate and driven about SMS 2003/SCCM 2007, but also enjoys interfacing with customers. The contract would be roughly 6 months in duration with a start date of immediately.
Responsibilities:
- Communicates and negotiates deployment activities with the customer on peer and management level
- Reviews basic level methods of procedures
- Initiates product improvement recommendation based upon experiences in field
- Makes recommendations on product deployment documentation, based on client needs.
- Interfaces with customer technical staff
- Installs, upgrades and configures SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007
- Interfaces to support organizations that provide support for third party products
- Responsible for building and maintaining excellent working relationship with customers.
Requirements :
- 3+ years experience with SMS 2003
- Prefer experience with SCCM 2007
- Prefer experience with large enterprise level companies.
- Must be an excellent communicator and enjoy a customer facing role.
Interested candidates can contact Matt at 206 778 4432 or via email at mnt2556@gmail.com

Regards,
Anthony

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These are located in Atlanta and sorry I don’t have salary information on these two, they are contract to hire.  The details are below, if you are interested shoot me an email including your updated resume and I will forward it on to the recruiter.

These 2 administrator/ packaging SMS Engineering positions begin as a 6 month contract and converts over to a permanent position. The hourly rate and salary are competitive based on experience.

The client is looking for candidates that have SMS packaging/repackaging combined with SMS Administration experience with MSI or   (Microsoft Installer) Technology. 

Job Responsibilities:

• SMS packaging (from scratch) and repackaging
• Deployment and working with the internal business units
• Following up with each business unit after deployment.  Completing a follow up report.
• Monitoring the SMS environment.  Must be proactive to keep the servers healthy.
• Deploy security updates to workstations (soon they will also work with the servers)
• The client is now using SMS on their imaging solution “OSD” and “BDD”
• Work with workstations, drivers
• Scripting:  VBScript preferred
• They are upgrading to SMS 2007 with “WSUS” Windows Security Update Services.  WSUS experience is desired.

• PKI experience is desired .
• Must have basic MS foundation infrastructure skills, AD (Active Directory), Windows operating system, troubleshooting skills

• Light project management skills are desired

• MOM experience desired

ENVIRONMENT:

• 3,000 desktops in the environment.  A mix of LAN devices, remote users, and VPN. 
• Only on call one week out of every 10 weeks
• A great deal of TRAINING offered

Regards,
Anthony

Anthony Clendenen | Solutions Engineer | 1E

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If you are interested send me a copy of your resume and I will forward it on to the recruiter, the requirements are listed below.  This is with a federal agency located on the east coast.

Skill set and experience:

Experience with managing SMS in a multi-site environment including the ability to troubleshoot all aspects of SMS via analyzing log files on both server and clients

Job Duties:

Require consultant with extensive experience with SMS to perform the following tasks:

(1) Advise the Agency on the best design for System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 in a multi-site environment.

(2) Upgrade from SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007. 

(3) Create a disaster recovery plan for the SCCM 2007

(4) Implement Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 & Microsoft Operating System Deployment feature pack (OSD). This will better prepare the Agency to upgrade its desktop environment to Windows Vista.

(5) Troubleshoot SMS infrastructure and packaging issues Create SMS package deployment business process.

(6) Evaluate Agency’s current SMS web reports for software modifications.

(7) Create a business process for SMS web reporting. SMS consultant will be responsible for providing Agency with the following Work Products:

            a. Upgrade plan for SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007.

            b. Implement upgrade plan for SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007.

            c. Disaster recovery plan for the SMS infrastructure.

            d. Implementation Plan for Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 & Microsoft Operating System Deployment feature pack (OSD).

            e. Implementation of Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 & Microsoft Operating System Deployment feature pack (OSD).

            f. Business process for SMS package creation.

            g. SMS web reports business process.

Project description:

Agency has contracted prime for the overall evaluation, design, implementation, sizing and upgrades of the structure of the Agency’s Active Directory, Group Policy Objects, System Management Server, Windows Internet Naming Service, Dynamic Naming Service, and Email. The Agency’s environment includes Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2000, and Windows Server 2003 for all Agency users and workstations in those environments.

The following technologies are used for scripting at the Agency’s: DOS Batch files, ADSI, LDAP, Kixstart and Visual Basic. The contractor shall have a high level of technical expertise with these scripting technologies in order to automate administrative tasks, software deployment, logon script development. The contractor shall have the ability to leverage languages such as JAVA, Cold Fusion, HTML, and SQL query to extract data from an SMS data base running on MS SQL server and build Web pages tracking software deployments & problems with the SMS infrastructure.

Restrictions:

(1) MUST BE A US CITIZEN

Regards,
Anthony

Anthony Clendenen | Solutions Engineer | 1E

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