Current Open Positions as of 5/13/08

Please send a current resume to careers@custom-it.com
and indicate which position you are applying for.
 

Active Directory & Novell eDirectory  Specialist   *New
Program Manager   *New
Software Developer - Grand Rapids Area   *New
PL/SQL Developer - Grand Rapids Area   *New
Mainframe Computer Operator - Lansing Area 
Active Directory Support - Tecumseh Area
Project Manager / Project Leader  
Linux Network Engineer - East Lansing Area
Linux SuSE Administrator - East Lansing Area 
Cisco Firewall Engineer - East Lansing Area
Web Developer - Adrian Area
Sr. Project Manager
Sr. Designer / Architect  - Lansing Area
SAN Administrator (Lansing)
Windows 2003 Server Engineer (Lansing)
Firewall Project Engineer
Unix Engineer
External Connectivity Engineer

Platform Engineer
Platform Engineer - Tivoli
HP-UX Systems Administrator - Lansing area
 

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Active Directory & Novell eDirectory  Specialist

Minimum 5 years experience in implementing and maintaining Active Directory and Novell eDirectory.  Enterprise experience is a must as well as a background in server engineering and Identity Manager.  Qualified individuals will have built and deployed several servers.  Any experience with Lotus Notes technical support is a plus.

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Program Manager

Qualified individuals must have experience in developing application outsourcing RFPs and evaluating vendor responses.  Will initially pilot 2 applications for outsourcing and make selection recommendations to the client.  PMP certification is highly preferred.

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Software Developer - Grand Rapids Area

As a member of the Data Store Engineering Team, the individual will perform analysis, design, development and testing of software modules related to Data Warehousing. 

Skills required:

  • Oracle Developer (5-7 years)

  • Business Objects (3-5 years)

  • Computer Programming (5-7 years)

  • Oracle-Custom Database (5-7 years)

  • PL/SQL (5-7 years)

  • UNIX Scripts (5-7 years)

  • *Excellent Communication Skills

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PL/SQL Developer - Grand Rapids Area

PL/SQL Developer that will be responsible for designing and developing data extracts, Oracle reports, and Business Objects WebI reports from Oracle 9iR2 database.  Strong design skills required.

Skills required:                        

  • Oracle Reports (5-7 years)      version 10g

  • PL/SQL (5-7 years)                  version 9IR2 or above

  • Oracle Developer (5-7 years)   

  • UNIX - HP - UX (5-7 Years)

  • Microsoft Outlook (1-3 years)

  • Excel (3-5 years)

  • Visio (3-5 years)

Additional skills:

Required: Strong design and analytical skills, good communication

Preferred: Health Care experience, Facets 4x , Perl, Subversion

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Mainframe Computer Operator – Lansing area

  • Minimum of 5 years experience supporting Mainframe systems

  • Specific and recent experience with Dispatch, CA-7, TSO

  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills

  • MUST be available to start immediately

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Active Directory support – Tecumseh area
(southwest of Ann Arbor)

  • Minimum of 5 years experience supporting and rolling out Active Directory in a corporate environment; Enterprise Active Directory experience preferred

  • Experience with desktop support, technical support, and network support

  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills; Must have excellent customer service skills

  • MUST be available to start immediately; candidates need to be local candidates; no Detroit based candidates

  • Individual will be based out of Tecumseh but will be supporting sites throughout Lenawee, Washtenaw, and Monroe County

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Project Manager / Project Leader

Minimum 5 years experience as a Project Manager/Project Leader.  Experience in web-based applications highly preferred including: HTML, Javascript, CSS, Lotus Notes or .NET framework.  Qualified candidates will also be able to document the requirements for this position as well as manage the project.

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Linux Network Engineer - East Lansing Area  

  • Linux- must have minimum of 3-4 years

  • Experience with MS Server, MS Exchange, MS Active Directory

  • Novell and/or Cisco experience

  • Experience with servers, routers, switches, security administration

  • Must have the ability to multi task with more than one technology

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Linux SuSE Administrator - East Lansing Area 

  • Linux- must have minimum of 3-4 years

  • SUSE 9 or 10-must have a minimum of 3-4 years

  • Novell E-Directory- experience with modifying the schema

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Cisco Firewall Engineer - East Lansing Area

  • Must have a minimum of 3 years with Cisco Firewall Server Module in a 6500 series

  • Experience with ASA firewall experience preferred

  • Novell and/or Cisco experience-routers, switches

  • Prefer that the candidate has 1 or more of the following: Cisco Security Manager, Cisco Security Agent, and Wide Area Server

  • Must have the ability to multi task with more than one technology

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Web Developer - Adrian Area

Responsibilities include desk top applications, Intranet, Extranet, and Web Site (.com) development and coordination with external sourcing partners.

 

PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Ability to design, develop, and support Microsoft based applications utilizing a variety of programming tools including ASP, Visual Studio, XML and HTML.

  • Support new and existing applications and third party interfaces including updates, security, maintenance and administration.  

  • Provide technical support for our internal and external business users.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

 

Essential Qualifications and Skills:
 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a computer science/engineering discipline with applied information technology training and experience

  • 2-4 years of information technology experience with increasing responsibility

  • Developed applications using desk top and web server technology – Microsoft ASP and Visual Basic (preferred).

  • Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2 database experience

  • Foundation in multi-tier application development  - database, business objects, Graphical User Interface (GUI)

  • Ability to travel 25% of the time.
     

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

  • 1-2 years of ERP experience and AS/400 experience an additional bonus

  • Experience working in a manufacturing industry.

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Sr. Project Manager

A senior project manager is needed to manage a portion of the replacement of an entire WAN.  Candidates must demonstrate an expert level of project management proficiency and ability to provide leadership to the team.  Candidates also must demonstrate expert analytical skills and ability to work unsupervised.

Responsibilities include:

  • Manages the estimating, planning, and day-to-day execution of the project.

  • Identifies tasks and skills required to execute the project plan.

  • Defines expectations and success criteria clearly, communicating early and often.

  • Mentors the team members on project objectives.

  • Facilitates the development of the project requirements.

  • Ensures project deliverables meet defined requirements.

  • Monitors and, when necessary, challenge the progress of project team members.

  • Creates and maintains the project risk management plan.

  • Coordinates and integrates activities across multiple areas(training, testing, procedures, etc.).

  • Identifies issues and facilitates resolution and/or escalation as appropriate.

  • Incorporates approved change requests into the project plan.

  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written are required.

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Sr. Designer/Architect – Lansing area

Position requires a Bachelors degree with 7 to 10 years or related work experience in applications design and programming.  Solid knowledge of UML, object oriented design and analysis, JAVA development tools, client/server platforms and relational databases, enterprise or distributed computing, WEB based computing, multi-threaded/multi-tasking components, design patterns, distribution and data exchange technologies (XML, CORBA, etc.), ILOG Jrules, BEA Web Logic 8.x or higher, Oracle 9i or higher and Toplink.

Overview:  Will provide technical leadership and oversight of major open system development projects; as well as define and enforce design and programming standards and participates in software design and implementation reviews.

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SAN Administrator (Lansing, MI area)

Minimum 3 years experience in the following: EMC DMX class SAN equipment, Brocade and McData switching gear, EMC Timefinder Snapshot software, as well as StorageTek D380 SAN and L700 Tape backup systems.

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Windows 2003 Server Engineer (Lansing, MI area)

Minimum 3 years experience as a Windows 2003 Server Engineer.  Strong background with server tuning, setup and administration required.  Must be able to create reports and be able to work over 40 hours per week.

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Firewall Project Engineer

Specific Requirements:  

  • Minimum of 4 years experience designing, implementing, and supporting solutions for network, firewall, and UNIX environments.

  • Extensive hands-on experience with Check Point and Juniper firewall products.

  • Extensive knowledge and experience with network protocols and concepts including: SSH, FTP, Telnet, TCP/IP, TCP/IP addressing schemes, Network Address Translation (NAT)Domain Name Services (DNS), and routing (OSPF and BGP).

  • Extensive experience with various security practices and products including: OS hardening, encryption methods, virus protection, etc.

  • Demonstrated experience configuring and troubleshooting

  • Cisco switches and routers.  Cisco certifications preferred.

  • Proven ability to interpret output from network traffic analysis tools such as Sniffer, Etherpeak, and TCP dump.

  • Practical knowledge of various local and wide area network infrastructure including: Ethernet, VPN, Frame Relay, the ANX network, Point to Point Circuits.

  • Effective interpersonal and consulting skills to be used to align client needs tactical and strategic solutions.

  • Ability to effectively collaborate in a dynamic team environment.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills necessary for clear definition of scope, technical solutions, project deliverables, appropriate system documentation and client communication.

  • Proven skills in planning, estimating, organizing, and project management methodology.

  • Experience with Tripwire, Gauntlet, PGP, Solaris, Sendmail, proxy servers, VPN devices, and remote access technologies is preferred.

  • Bachelor’s Degree in related field and/or 4 + years of related experience is required

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Unix Engineer

This position is responsible for UNIX engineering for various servers. It is also responsible for hardware and software engineering, installation, testing, configuration, maintenance, and third level troubleshooting for various UNIX servers in a 7x24x365 production environment.  This will include ensuring availability of packaged software and recovery systems. Third level problem determination will be performed to provide the necessary resolution and recovery solutions and to determine root cause. This will involve working with all levels of management, internal and external clients, technical staff, and vendors.

Duties include analyzing and recommending hardware and software changes, performing technical design, providing detailed implementation plans, creating documentation, and modifying and maintaining software and hardware architectural solutions. Effective interpersonal and consulting skills for assessing client needs will be required with a high level of customer focus. This position requires an ability to achieve results by leading cohesive teams to plan, select, design, develop, integrate, and implement departmental projects providing accurate, timely, and appropriate status on assignments. This position will require a flexibility to adjust the work schedule as required and be on call via pager/cell phone 24x7x365.

Qualifications
 

  • Bachelor degree and a minimum of 7 years of related experience or 11 years of related experience.

  • 7 years of support in a production application server environment for external clients using multiple UNIX operating systems including hardware installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and problem resolution.

  • 7 years systems analysis experience.

  • 6 years of design and engineering of technical architecture in a UNIX  environment to meet business requirements as well as systems analysis experience.

  • 6 years of IBM WebSphere Application Server and/or IIS Web Server software experience.

  • 6 years experience in technologies such as Internet/Intranet, LAN/WAN, as well as network communications.

  • 5 years of project experience on medium projects comprised of multiple technical areas (network, operations, security, audit, application support, etc

  • 4 years HMC experience building LPARS, installing/imaging/updating HMC software, and using WebSM tools.

  • 4 years installing and performance tuning AIX 5L.

  • 4 years NIM/Infrastructure setup to centrally manage software installation/ imaging, maintenance upgrades, and backups of NIM clients.

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External Connectivity Engineer

Specific Requirements
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  • Minimum of 4 years experience designing, implementing, and supporting solutions for network, firewall, and UNIX environments.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with CheckPoint and Juniper products.
  • Extensive knowledge and experience with network protocols and concepts including: SSH, FTP, Telnet, TCP/IP, TCP/IP addressing schemes, Network Address Translation (NAT),
  • Domain Name Services (DNS), and routing (OSPF and BGP).
  • Extensive experience with various security practices and products including: OS hardening, encryption methods, virus protection, etc.
  • Demonstrated experience configuring and troubleshooting Cisco switches and routers.  Cisco certifications preferred.
  • Proven ability to interpret output from network traffic analysis tools such as Sniffer, Etherpeak, and TCP dump.
  • Practical knowledge of various local and wide area network infrastructure including: Ethernet, VPN, Frame Relay, the ANX network, Point to Point Circuits.
  • Effective interpersonal and consulting skills to be used to align client needs tactical and strategic solutions.
  • Ability to effectively collaborate in a dynamic team environment.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills necessary for clear definition of scope, technical solutions, project deliverables, appropriate system documentation and client communication.
  • Proven skills in planning, estimating, organizing, and projectmanagement methodology.
  • Experience with Tripwire, Gauntlet, PGP, Solaris, Sendmail, proxy servers, VPN devices, and remote access technologies is preferred.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in related field and/or 4 + years of related experience is required

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Platform Engineer - Tivoli

Experience with IBM - Tivoli Storage Management is required.  We are seeking candidates with TSM experience including Tivoli server installation on an AIX platform, client installation on AIX and Windows platforms, managing multiple TSM instances and TSM disaster recovery.
 

Familiarity with storage infrastructure (hardware components) is required

  • IBM disk storage subsystems and tape libraries

  • Cisco MDS Director Switches

  • HP, EMC storage subsystems      

  • AIX Operating System experience/knowledge is also required

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Platform Engineer

Specific Requirements:

  • Experience with IBM Virtualization (VIO) product set

  • Experience with Websphere 5.x & 6.x installation and troubleshooting

  • Experience with HP-UX 11i (optional)

  • Experience with IBM Edge Server (optional)

  • Experience with Microsoft Office suite products

  • Experience with Bourne, Korn & PERL scripting required

    Background:

    The individual will assisting other UNIX Engineer's with their current projects.
    On a day to day basis they will be attending Project related meetings, performing system installations and assisting Application Engineers with application installations.

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HP-UX System Administrator – Lansing area

Minimum 3 years experience as a systems administrator in an HP-UX environment.  SAN and Weblogic experience is also required.  Preferred experience includes:

System Hardening

Information Assurance

Intrusion Detection

DOD Certifications – DITSCAP or DIACAP

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