Tired Of Your Job? How about $105-120k for an SMS 2003 to SCCM Job?

October 17, 2007

If you are interested send me a copy of your resume and I will forward it on to the recruiter, the requirements are listed below. This is with a federal agency located on the east coast.

Skill set and experience:

Experience with managing SMS in a multi-site environment including the ability to troubleshoot all aspects of SMS via analyzing log files on both server and clients

Job Duties:

Require consultant with extensive experience with SMS to perform the following tasks:

(1) Advise the Agency on the best design for System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 in a multi-site environment.

(2) Upgrade from SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007.

(3) Create a disaster recovery plan for the SCCM 2007

(4) Implement Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 & Microsoft Operating System Deployment feature pack (OSD). This will better prepare the Agency to upgrade its desktop environment to Windows Vista.

(5) Troubleshoot SMS infrastructure and packaging issues Create SMS package deployment business process.

(6) Evaluate Agency's current SMS web reports for software modifications.

(7) Create a business process for SMS web reporting. SMS consultant will be responsible for providing Agency with the following Work Products:

a. Upgrade plan for SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007.

b. Implement upgrade plan for SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007.

c. Disaster recovery plan for the SMS infrastructure.

d. Implementation Plan for Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 & Microsoft Operating System Deployment feature pack (OSD).

e. Implementation of Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 & Microsoft Operating System Deployment feature pack (OSD).

f. Business process for SMS package creation.

g. SMS web reports business process.

Project description:

Agency has contracted prime for the overall evaluation, design, implementation, sizing and upgrades of the structure of the Agency's Active Directory, Group Policy Objects, System Management Server, Windows Internet Naming Service, Dynamic Naming Service, and Email. The Agency's environment includes Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2000, and Windows Server 2003 for all Agency users and workstations in those environments.

The following technologies are used for scripting at the Agency's: DOS Batch files, ADSI, LDAP, Kixstart and Visual Basic. The contractor shall have a high level of technical expertise with these scripting technologies in order to automate administrative tasks, software deployment, logon script development. The contractor shall have the ability to leverage languages such as JAVA, Cold Fusion, HTML, and SQL query to extract data from an SMS data base running on MS SQL server and build Web pages tracking software deployments & problems with the SMS infrastructure.