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Systems Administrator(Night Shift 9pm-6am)
 
Location: Washington DC (Metro Area)
Category: Engineer
Functional Unit: Alteritech


About Acumen Solutions
Acumen Solutions, Inc. is a leading business and technology consulting firm with offices across the U.S. and in Europe. Our comprehensive yet practical approach is Right From the Start(tm) and allows us to optimize Customer Value, Technology, Risk Management and Economics. We provide a different kind of consulting, separated from the rest by our unmatched quality and service in these industries: Communications and Media; Financial Services; Public Sector; and Consumer and Commercial Products. Our proven track record with Fortune 500 clients and other emergent industry leaders speaks for itself.

If you have a driving passion for innovative solutions and can deliver practical, sustainable results, Acumen Solutions is interested in you. In return, we offer you the opportunity to become skilled at and apply leading-edge management principles and state-of-the-art technology to the most pressing problems of the industry, gain a depth and breadth of experience that can develop your career as we grow our business and share in the rewards of success through a competitive, comprehensive compensation and benefits package.

Job Description
Love to solve IT problems? We’ve got a position for you! Jump-start your career with Alteritech, a subsidiary of Acumen Solutions. Alteritech is a dynamic, fast-growing company that will challenge and excite you. Alteritech manages the IT and VoIP infrastructures of small- to medium-sized businesses, protecting their critical information and assets.

Through a combination of Managed Services and Professional Services, we give organizations the freedom to focus on their core business while giving them peace of mind through business-class reliability and scalability.

For advanced and larger businesses, Alteritech provides business application migrations, storage area network upgrades and complex hosting applications. Additionally, Alteritech has superior expertise and experience in meeting the complex demands of the legal community for the integration of applications such as document management

Responsibilities include production server backups, restores, desktop support, and server builds. Technologies at the datacenter include Windows Server 2003, clustered Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Network Load Balancing, VMWare Enterprise Virtual Server environment, clustered SAN with iSCSI, SharePoint, SQL 2005, IIS, Blackberry Enterprise server, GoodLink Server, any and all email related protocols such as SMTP, IMAP, POP3, RPC/HTTPS, MAPI with supporting technologies such as relays, gateways, antivirus and spam prevention software. Additional responsibilities include the less critical office systems administration, advanced maintenance troubleshooting and set-up.
The successful candidate must be a solution-oriented technical professional who has experience supporting mission-critical applications in a business environment. This is a hands on position. The candidate must be aggressive and have a great work ethic to succeed in this company.

Required Skills
  • 1-3 years Experience with Exchange Server 2003/2000
  • Hands-on experience with Windows Server 2000 & 2003
  • Hands-on experience managing Active Directory
  • Experience with troubleshooting Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002/2003/2007
  • Flexible Work Hour Schedule
  • Must be able to work weekends for maintenance windows and on-call
  • Must be a US citizen or a Green Card holder
  • Must be able to commute daily to Vienna, VA
  • Enthusiasm about working in a fast-paced and ever evolving environment
  • Enjoy working with existing clients and eager to engage in new client opportunities
  • Service oriented attitude - will do what it takes to get the job done right
  • A spirit of perpetual learning, identifying new technologies as they emerge and becoming an expert in them
  • Prefers knowing a broader range of technologies well as opposed to being highly specialized in a few
  • A passion for sharing information to the team and clients
  • Desired Skills:
    -Prefer candidates with MCP or MCSE
    -Experience with Blackberry Enterprise Server, ISA, SQL, SharePoint
    -Experience with clustering & load balancing of Windows Servers
    -Experience with SAN storage technologies
    -Some scripting skills
    -Cisco Firewall Skills




    Minimum Qualifications
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