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The Firm seeks a very bright, highly motivated, and exceptionally well-qualified senior Database Infrastructure Engineer to lead a team which designs and manages enterprise-wide, distributed, mission-critical databases in a fast-paced environment. Responsibilities include database design, performance analysis and tuning, server administration, disaster recovery, and improving software release processes. Successful hires will have the opportunity to grow beyond traditional DBA confines, working closely with software developers to help design and implement efficient, scalable, and resilient database applications.

A bachelor's degree is required, preferably in a technical discipline, as is 5+ years of experience. Programming and scripting ability as well as excellent verbal and written skills are also required. Ideal candidates will have experience in financial or related environments. Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase ASE, Replication Server, and UNIX or MS Windows administration are definite pluses. The Firm offers a casual, collegial working environment and an extremely attractive compensation package.

We are always willing to consider candidates with a record of extraordinary intellectual achievement regardless of area of expertise or past experience. Also, please keep the following in mind: We look for stellar grades and scores and top universities.

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The firm seeks an extraordinarily gifted technology specialist to provide direct support to the firm's chairman. The successful candidate will work closely with the firm's highly skilled IT systems staff and will be responsible for meeting the chairman’s short- and long-term technical needs. The responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• On-site, off-site, and telephone support for all technology-related needs of the firm's chairman;
• Installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of desktops, laptops, peripherals, and mobile devices;
• Management of desktop technology-related research projects;
• Identification and recommendation of process improvements;
• Testing and evaluation of products and solutions which may enhance the chairman's efficiency and productivity;
• Monitoring the progress of technical projects assigned to other groups;
• Training of the backup technical support staff; and
• Involvement in the firmwide technology projects which are not directly related to the chairman.

The ideal candidate will be well-versed in communications and audio-visual technology (Blackberry, video conferencing, etc.). Programming ability is a significant advantage, but is not required. Candidates must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and outstanding organizational and project management skills. While we certainly welcome applications from computer scientists, developers, and systems administrators with extensive track records, we are looking for exceptional technical ability more than specific experience.

We are always willing to consider candidates with a record of extraordinary intellectual achievement regardless of area of expertise or past experience. Also, please keep the following in mind: We look for stellar grades and scores and top universities.

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The firm seeks an exceptionally gifted individual for the role of Senior Network Engineer in its IT Systems group. Candidates should have superb network design, implementation, and troubleshooting skills, as well as strong programming skills and an excellent understanding of best-of-breed network management practices. Responsibilities include developing scalable network designs for our campus and global networks; identifying, researching, and evaluating emerging network technologies; developing and implementing network management and related tools; and engineering solutions for the firm's growing, highly-resilient network infrastructure.

Five to seven years experience with enterprise-level network design is required, as is a bachelor's degree, preferably in a technical discipline. The successful candidate must have extensive hands-on experience with enterprise-class routers and switches (Cisco experience a plus); superior understanding of network routing and switching protocols (BGP, OSPF, and MPLS); excellent knowledge of TCP/IP, including packet-level traffic analysis; in-depth understanding of network security and access control; experience with VoIP, QoS, and IP Telephony technologies; excellent written and oral communication skills; and creative problem-solving abilities. Experience with UNIX Systems administration (Solaris, Linux) is a plus.

We are always willing to consider candidates with a record of extraordinary intellectual achievement regardless of area of expertise or past experience. Also, please keep the following in mind: We look for stellar grades and scores and top universities.

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The firm seeks an extraordinarily intelligent and resourceful individual to help architect next-generation Microsoft Windows infrastructure. The successful candidate will be able to conceptualize, build, and deploy systems management and automation technologies for a large number of Windows servers and Windows PC clients. He or she will work independently and will collaborate with our large systems staff on substantial design and research projects within the Windows environment.
Responsibilities:
• Develop a scalable Windows server environment for both our campus and global networks
• Identify, research, evaluate, and implement emerging Windows technologies
• Develop and implement automation and management tools
• Engineer application, database, and messaging solutions for the firm’s growing and highly-resilient Windows infrastructure

Requirements:
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with server applications in a Microsoft networked environment
• High level of expertise in the following areas:
• Windows Server 2003/2008
• Exchange Server 2003/2007
• SQL Server 2005/2008
• Active Directory management
• Application distribution
• VMWare virtualization solutions
• Sharepoint 2007
• Proficiency in systems programming and scripting
• Project management and documentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to develop tools to maintain and monitor corporate infrastructure

We are always willing to consider candidates with a record of extraordinary intellectual achievement regardless of area of expertise or past experience. Also, please keep the following in mind: We look for stellar grades and scores and top universities.

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The firm seeks incredibly bright individuals for the role of Systems Administrator. The technologists we hire will be responsible for substantial systems projects (such as building very powerful computing clusters) and other work covering a wide range of technology including, but not limited to, Windows PCs and servers, UNIX servers, and advanced networking and telecommunications infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a computer science or engineering degree, extensive knowledge of UNIX and/or Windows environments, as well as programming and scripting ability (Perl, Python, Shell, etc.). This is a client-facing role and excellent verbal and written skills are a must. We’re seeking exceptionally well-qualified candidates and are prepared to offer a highly attractive compensation package;

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Client is looking to engage 1 Tivoli WS resource to assist us with our migration to 8.4/8.5. We would also like occasional help with our current production on 8.2. This person would start as soon as possible and multiple platforms HP-UX, AIX, Windows, probably Redhat linux.

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1. Technical review of hardware requirements, software, and connectivity for installation. This installation will be on a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 guest on zLinux.
2. Install DB2 UDB on the TEMS/TEPS server machine. Verify the Oracle database has been deployed by ThinkTech for the Tivoli Data Warehouse.
3. Install, patch, and configure ITCAM for Applications V6.2 Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS), Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (TEPS), and Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) on the SLES 10 guest on the zLinux system.
4. Configure the Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW), storage of up to four (4) metrics, and the Pruning and Summarization Agent. Verify that data collected in the Data Warehouse can be accessed from the TEP after 24-48 hours. The RDBMS will be Oracle, and created using the supplied scripts, and administered by ThinkTech. Data retention management will be taken over by the ThinkTech DBAs once it has been set up in TEST.
5. Install, patch, and configure the appropriate operating system agent and up to two (two) additional agents on the TEMS and on up to eight additional computers in ThinkTech’s test environment, patch them, and integrate them into the ITCAM for Applications environment. Deploy up to two (2) custom Universal Agents. Available agents include: a. ITCAM for Databases b. ITCAM for Virtual Servers c. Universal Agent The custom Universal Agent will be that which was developed earlier for Cache for this environment.
6. Test agent connections by browsing agent data within the TEPS, and test whether stopping and starting the agent reflects properly within ITCAM.
7. Test TEP Internet Explorer client sign on for up to three (3) users, and for up to three different user workstations.
8. Identify, communicate and resolve ITCAM for Applications 6.2 installation issues.
9. Develop up to two (2) custom TEP workspaces which use data coming from the monitoring operating system agents to display the data graphically for ThinkTech personnel.
10. Develop up to eight (8) ITCAM for Applications situations to notify ThinkTech personnel of out-of-bounds conditions of monitored operating systems. These situations may be a mix of newly-created situations, modified out-of-box situations, or unmodified out-of-box situations, if the default values are meaningful to the customer environment.
11. Create As-Built Document for ITCAM for Applications 6.2. 12. Conduct orientation overview for up to two (2) people in one session of about two (2) hours, demonstrating key out-of-the-box usage scenarios and administrative tasks.
Completion Criteria: This activity will be considered complete when either one of the following conditions first occurs:
1. IBM has delivered the As-Built Document for ITCAM for Applications 6.2 to the ThinkTech Project Manager, conducted the orientation overview, and executed the key usage scenarios identified in the Readiness Review. 2. IBM has met the completion criteria defined in the "Completion Criteria" section of this Statement of Work. Deliverable Material: As-Built Document for ITCAM for Applications 6.2

The tasks Associated with Level II Support include the following: Monitoring, review of errors, start/stop processes. Based on IBM/Wal-Marts inputs develop plans and recommendations to improve service quality. Implement approved recommendations for service quality
Qualification: B.E /B.Tech,MCA ,M.sc,B.sc

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1. Verify the server and file-systems for server hardware to be configured in this implementation. This will be installed in a SLES 10 guest in a zLinux system. This installation will use the ITCAM for Applications 6.2 infrastructure installed in the task ITCAM for Applications v6.2 Quickstart in TEST.
2. Install and configure ITCAM for J2EE software in the non-production, distributed systems environment. The ITCAM Managing Server will be installed on WebSphere to use a DB2 database.
3. Deploy the ITCAM for J2EE Data Collectors to up to five (5) WAS Servers.
4. Add Application Support for ITCAM for J2EE to the ITCAM for Applications components deployed in “ITCAM for Applications v6.2 Quickstart” section including TEMS and TEPS.
5. Install Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents (TEMA) on up to five (5) servers monitored by ITCAM for J2EE.
6. Create up to five (5) situations and distribute up to five (5) servers.
7. Demonstrate up to five (5) key use cases based on the target environment.
8. Create the As-Built document for ITCAM for J2EE.
9. Conduct orientation overview for up to two (2) people in one (1) session of up to four (4) hours covering key out-of-the-box usage scenarios and administrative tasks.
Completion Criteria: This activity will be considered complete when either one of the following conditions first occurs:
1. IBM has delivered the As-Built Document for ITCAM for J2EE to the ThinkTech Project Manager, executed the key usage scenarios identified in the Readiness Review, and conducted the orientation overview.
2. IBM has met the completion criteria defined in the "Completion Criteria" section of this Statement of Work. Deliverable Material: As-Built Document for ITCAM for J2EE 6.2

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1. Verify hardware, software, and connectivity readiness. This installation will use the ITCAM for Applications 6.2 infrastructure installed in the task “ITCAM for Applications v6.2 Quickstart in TEST.”
2. Install and configure OMEGAMON XE for z/VM and Linux on System z software in the Test environment. a. Add Application Support for “OMEGAMON XE for z/VM and Linux on System z” to the ITCAM for Applications components deployed in “ITCAM for Applications v6.2 Quickstart” section including TEMS and TEPS.
3. Identify, build, test and document up to 5 Alerts (Situation Events) for problem detection scenarios on installed products. These will be based on the key usage scenarios defined for the proof-of-concept engagement, or the detailed design engagement, if they are defined there.
4. Design and implement up to two workspaces one for zVM and another for zLinux LPARs that will contain bar graph of current users with average number of eligible users; average number of users and number of dialed users; bar graph of top 5 CPU users; including a bar graph of Linux guest workload CPU use.
5. Create As-Built Document for OMEGAMON XE for z/VM.
6. Conduct orientation overview for up to two (2) people in one (1) session of up to four (4) hours covering key usage scenarios and administrative tasks.
Completion Criteria: This activity will be considered complete when either one of the following conditions first occurs:
1. IBM has delivered the As-Built Document for OMEGAMON for z/VM to the ThinkTech Project Manager, executed the key usage scenarios identified in the Readiness Review, and conducted the orientation overview. 2. IBM has met the completion criteria defined in the "Completion Criteria" section of this Statement of Work. Deliverable Material: As-Built Document for OMEGAMON for z/VM and Linux on System z 4.1.1

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The selection of these options will be determined in the preceding detailed design engagement. The major subtasks are:
1. Event Console Consolidation and synchronization
a. Install the EIF Probe on the OMNIbus server for forwarding events from ITCAM for Applications TEMS to OMNIbus.
b. Configure the EIF Probe to start under PA control. Integrate with ITNM start/stop.
c. Configure ITCAM to forward events to the EIF probe.
d. Develop Netcool/OMNIbus rules to correctly present ITCAM events for up to ten (10) ITCAM situation(s) with the right fields that will be displayed in the Event Viewer.
e. Install the Event Synchronization Component on the OMNIbus server and enable the Situation Update Forwarder.
f. Configure two-way communication between ITCAM and OMNIbus so that changes made to events in OMNIbus are reflected in ITCAM event views.
2. ITNM Application Health Monitor
a. Install the appropriate ITCAM OS agents on the ITNM server (Linux).
b. Install the ITCAM Agent for ITNM on the ITNM server.
c. Verify the view of ITNM in TEPS.
3. Archival and reporting of historical network performance data
a. Create the ITNM historical database instance in the Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW).
b. Configure the migration of historical network performance data to the TDW.
c. Configure the ITNM reports in Tivoli Common Reporting to use the TDW as the data source.
4. Archival and reporting of Event History
a. Install the Oracle Gateway on the OMNIbus server.
b. Configure the Oracle Gateway to start under PA control. Integrate with ITNM start/stop.
c. Create the Event History database instance in the Tivoli Data Warehouse RDBMS. This task will be performed by ThinkTech DBAs using scripts provided by IBM.
d. Install the Tivoli Common Reporting package for Omnibus in the Tivoli Integration Portal.
e. Configure the Omnibus Reports to use that database as the data source.
5. Develop limited integration with ThinkTech trouble ticketing system, BMC Remedy.
a. Develop one (1) test event scenario.
b. Establish and verify data flow from event monitoring system into BMC Remedy
c. Execute test event scenario.
6. Create As-Built document for Integration Tasks
7. Conduct orientation overview for up to two (2) people in one session of up to two (2) hours demonstrating key out-of-the-box usage scenarios and administrative functions
Completion Criteria: This activity will be considered complete when either one of the following conditions first occurs:
1. IBM has delivered the As-Built Document for Integration Tasks to the ThinkTech Project Manager, executed the key usage scenarios identified in the Readiness Review, and conducted the orientation overview.
2. IBM has met the completion criteria defined in the "Completion Criteria" section of this Statement of Work. Deliverable Material: As-Built Document for Integration Tasks

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1. Verify hardware, software, connectivity readiness.
2. Install and patch Impact 5.1 on one server in the TEST environment. This will be installed on a SLES 10 guest in a zLinux system.
3. Integrate Netcool Impact with the existing OMNIbus Object Server.
4. Configure Impact to start at system startup.
5. Create a stand-in for an external source of information about maintenance schedules for devices and servers in the test environment. In this test environment, a locally defined table containing sample information about maintenance schedules will be sufficient.
6. Develop one example of event enrichment policy from that data source documentation produced from the Tivoli Solution Design engagement.
7. Integrate this policy with the OMNIbus probe rules and automations established in the OMNIbus activity to suppress events in accordance with the maintenance schedule. This will be based on the documentation produced from the Tivoli Solution Design engagement.
8. Verify the behavior of this policy.
9. Create As-Built Document for Impact 5.1. 10. Conduct orientation overview for up to two (2) users in one session of up to two (2) hours demonstrating key out-of-the box usage scenarios and administrative tasks. Completion Criteria: This activity will be considered complete when either one of the following conditions first occurs:
1. IBM has delivered the As-Built Document for Impact to the ThinkTech Project Manager, executed the key usage scenarios identified in the Readiness Review, and conducted the orientation overview.
2. IBM has met the completion criteria defined in the "Completion Criteria" section of this Statement of Work. Deliverable Material: As-Built Document for Impact 5.1

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1. Verify the OMNIbus installed during the ITNM activity in the TEST environment. This will be on a SLES 10 guest in a zLinux system.
2. Enhance the probe rules and Omnibus automations to support a customer-maintained maintenance schedule table that will be used to add maintenance window information to events and suppress them appropriately. Make use of Impact integration for this. This will be based on the documentation produced from the Tivoli Solution Design engagement.
3. Develop and/or modify Omnibus automations based on the event lifecycle design specified in the assessment phase. IBM will spend up to five (5) days to configure the desired functionality based on the documentation produced from the Tivoli Solution Design engagement.
4. Develop the necessary pages and viewpoints within the Netcool GUI Foundation to support an operator profile with up to twelve (12) Active Event Lists filtering on event classes defined in the assessment phase. This will be based on the documentation produced from the Tivoli Solution Design engagement.
5. Develop the necessary pages and viewpoints to provide an example dashboard user profile complete with a simple tabular map with up to sixteen (16) rolled-up status indicators. This will be based on the documentation produced from the Tivoli Solution Design engagement.
6. Create the As-Built Document for OMNIbus 7.2.1 and Webtop 2.2. 7. Conduct orientation overview for up to two (2) people in one session of up to four (4) hours demonstrating key out-of-the-box usage scenarios and administrative functions.
Completion Criteria: This activity will be considered complete when either one of the following conditions first occurs:
1. IBM has delivered the As-Built Document for OMNIbus and Webtop to the ThinkTech Project Manager, executed the key usage scenarios identified in the Readiness Review, and conducted the orientation overview. 2. IBM has met the completion criteria defined in the "Completion Criteria" section of this Statement of Work. Deliverable Material: As-Built Document for OMNIbus 7.2.1 and Webtop 2.2

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