We are seeking an experienced Altiris Engineer who will work on the design and integration of Altiris solutions, as follows:
Day to Day Work:
- Work closely with Altiris Technical Support, Product Engineering, and Professional Services escalation team to identify and resolve issues and to mitigate customer impact.
- Maintain a high level technical expertise with Altiris products and solutions.
- Mentor junior consultants within the team in developing stronger Altiris skills.
- Display strong situational analysis, problem solving and decision making skills.
- Assume leadership on engagements and work without direct supervision, interfacing with customer IT and business-function leaders.
- Maintain professional demeanor and appearance at all times.
- Provide successful project performance and follow-up.
- Develop and present comprehensive project documentation and results to Altiris customers.
- Must demonstrate implementation experience (i.e., enterprise implementations)
Engineering Background:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, and problem solving and multi tasking abilities required.
- Excellent presentation/public speaking skills for both technical and management presentations both internally and to clients required.
- Proven success under aggressive schedules and ambiguous direction required.
- Strong influence/interpersonal skills, customer orientation, team interaction/effectiveness, and analytical and decision making skills required.
- Strong management/supervisory and presentation skills required.
- Strong ability to elicit customer requirements, define limits to project scope and develop documentation preferred.
- Working knowledge of scripting tools, such as Windows Scripting Host, WISE and the like preferred.
- A working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and SQL query languages TCP/IP networks, including DHCP, DNS, and WINS is required.
- A working knowledge of internet technologies, including IIS, HTML, XML, HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP required
- A working knowledge of network infrastructure components, including routers, switches, subnets, V-LANs, Ethernet, and Token Ring is required.
- A working knowledge of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint is required.
- A working knowledge of e-mail and internet use is required.
- 2-5 years experience with Altiris Deployment Solution and Notification Server.
- A working knowledge of Standard client platform administration, configuration, rights management and file access.
- Bachelor’s degree in IT related field or equivalent experience is preferred.
- Windows 2003/2008 experience a MUST. MSCE preferred.
- Desired familiarity with Altiris 7.x.
- Must be able to demonstrate trouble shooting SQL and Altiris issues.
- Large scale deployment of Altiris Notification server to enterprise environment a real plus.
- Experience writing custom reports in Altiris.
- Must have an understanding of the network impact of the solution.
- Altiris Certified Engineer (ACE), MCSE 2000 – Preferred.
- ITIL Foundation
Please email pgrainger@kforce.com for more information or to apply.