LRS Consulting Services is seeking an Operations Manager Architect/Consultant for a 6 month, contract to hire opportunity for our client, a global hardware manufacturer. Our client is increasing the size of it's Microsoft practice due to an overwhelming demand for its services. Join this successful team with this fantastic growth opportunity! You can live anywhere in the US (close to a major airport) and will work from home when not traveling to customer locations.
Responsibility:
Lead large, complex System Center Operation Manager projects. Evaluate customer requirements and constraints and develop optimal design. Provide hands-on configuration and validation of design, as well as production deployment and migration. Be able to document design, configuration and project results. Provide knowledge transfer to customer technical staff and brief customer management.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities: Requires advanced domain expertise, capable of designing and deploying complex solutions. The consultant should be able to nearly always resolve engagement requirements without having to escalate to additional resources. Individual has a mix of advanced technology and practical, operational acumen.
The role requires both broad and deep technology knowledge and the ability to architect a solution by mapping a customer’s business problem to an end-to-end technology solution. The Consultant should possess a strong knowledge of Microsoft operating systems from Windows NT through Windows 2003; heavy Active Directory and Directory Services knowledge necessary. Expert level knowledge of SCOM required. Demonstrated ability to engage in senior level technology decision maker discussions related to agility, business value. This role manages the complete lifecycle of large and complex projects. He or she has a passion for the customer which is demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the customer experience.
Requirements:
• Candidate will work in a highly decentralized and customer facing environment.
• Must have expert level knowledge of Microsoft MOM 2005 or Systems Management Operations Manager 2007
• Must have 5-10+ years of hands-on technical and design experience with Microsoft Enterprise technologies
• Must have 5+ years customer consulting experience
• Must have a history of having performed successful Operation Management implementations for enterprise customers (large environments)
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
• Experience with adjacency technologies ie. SMS, AD, etc. is required
• 70%+ travel is required
• Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent industry experience
• Must be able to take a consultative approach to develop, present and explain the value of proposed infrastructure solutions to customers
• Will act as a consultant to field technicians, customers and in pre-sales support. This person must be able to build and maintain a network of technical resources and across functionalities to allow for higher productivity and increased business
• Must have the ability to function in a technical lead capacity and may manage projects or staff
Hired candidate will perform a wide variety of technical and administrative enterprise solution assessment, design, validation, development, delivery. Strong analysis and communications skills, as well as the ability to resolve problems are required for this position.
If you are interested in hearing more, please contact me asap. This is a fantastic opportunity!
Melissa Holmes – Senior Technical Recruiter
LRS Consulting Services
9200 Indian Creek Parkway, Overland Park, Kansas, 66210
O: 913.339.9200 x2312 Melissa.Holmes@lrs.com | www.lrs.com
LRS is a privately-held company with corporate headquarters located in Springfield, IL . More than half of the Fortune 500 and Fortune 500 Service companies rely on industry-leading LRS solutions, with products in use in over 30 countries. Gartner and others recognize LRS as a global IT leader. Software Magazine consistently ranks LRS as one of the top 200 software companies in the world.
LRS has over 25 years of consulting experience providing a variety of consulting services to our customers alone and in partnership with others. LRS was named the 2005 Microsoft Advanced Infrastructure Worldwide Partner of the Year. LRS is a Microsoft managed partner and is part of their partner advisory council. LRS is one of the top 150 Microsoft partners in the USA. In addition to providing excellent infrastructure and application development consultants, LRS supports a broad range of staff augmentation needs.