Career Opportunities

We have the following positions:

Network Integration Engineer III or IV Technical Support 4 - Specialist RDA Firewall Engineer RDA Design Engineer Project Management Network Architect Network Analyst Network and implementation engineers Engineer 1 - Mechanical Cable Analyst Finance 1 - Professional

Network Integration Engineer III or IV

Specialty: VoIP Engineer specializing in Avaya solutions

Specialization: Advanced IP Specialist (Avaya)

Location: NYC

General Functions

• Business Planning / Project Management
• Capacity Planning
• Equipment installation
• Equipment integration
• Equipment Optimization
• System upgrade / migration

Skills:

Project Management

• Project plan execution
• Project deliverable controller
• Project operational development / planning

Technical Discipline

• Avaya technology
• Voice PBX systems
• Voice / data convergence

Network Protocols

• IP

Engineering Specialty

• Site preparation
• Site installation
• Resource deployment
• New equipment configuration
• Topology drawings

Carrier Technology

• Frame
• POTS
• Sonet
• FDDI

Consulting Specialty

• Deployment
• Network topology / architecture

Major Responsibilities/Results/Outputs:

General Function & Responsibility

• Provide technical expertise and guidance in the planning, implementation, and migration of both the network circuits and premises equipment requirements associated with an Avaya voice network application of advance IP services.
• Responsibilities include engineering and technical support of voice network changes including administration and maintenance of PBX switch translations, Network Routing Translations, and ARS Trunk Translations.
• Certify detailed interface/access engineering project plans, coordinate and manage the delivery of LAN/WAN installations and documents configuration changes.
• Provide technical voice network-related problem resolution and support.

General Project Duties

• Assists in the planning, forecasting, implementation, and identification of resource requirements for network systems (including wireless) of moderate complexity.
• Participates in network planning, network architecture design and engineering.
• Integrates and schematically depicts communication architectures, topologies, hardware, software, transmission and signaling links and protocols into complete network configurations.
• Evaluates new products, performs network problem resolution and assists in the development and documentation of technical standards and interface applications.
• Monitors protocol compatibility, perform system tuning, and make recommendations for improvement.

Education and Work Experience

• At least ten years experience in telecommunications services, and certified in technologies deployed in various network environments, especially Avaya.
• Three or more years experience in industry with system certification PBX and voice mail systems installed in the large headquarters environment. Current project entails the Avaya G3r PBX, S8300 IP system and the Octel overture 350-voice mail system.
• College degree in technical area - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field.
• Must be able to interact in a professional manner with End Users; must possess excellent PC, communication, and organizational skills.
• Understand voice, data, and client-specific applications within the finance industry environment.
• Ability and experience in coordinating communications and work efforts among Vendor, other vendors, customers, and consultants. Formal project management training required.
• Advanced knowledge of PBX, ACD, and voice mail systems.
• Advanced knowledge of data applications and computer telephony applications.
• Knowledgeable of new and existing technologies appropriate for deployment. These include e-enabled Frame (MPLS), advanced IP technology (VoIP), service management systems, messaging systems (email, unified), and could include Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems and computer telephone integration (CTI).

Desired Required Skill Set:

• Five (5) years of relevant work experience in network design techniques and standards including routing design (ARS, NRS/BARS), multiplexer to PBX Configuration design, Access and WAN design and implementation, contingency & recovery planning. In-depth knowledge of virtual/private voice network architecture, PBX/key systems, administration/management systems, voice mail configurations, PBX adjunct configurations, Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) applications/configurations, call center design, ACD design and call vectoring. Requires facilities engineering/provisioning, procurement and diagnostic techniques, project coordination, and project management.

If interested, please send your resume and contact info to hiring@excis.com

Technical Support 4 - Specialist

Resource Type: Contractor

Job Class: Information Technology

Overall Experience: 04-06 Yrs.

Position Description:
Expert experience with Tivoli Storage Management (TSM) administration and how TSM interfaces with Unix, SAN and tape.

Region: NY Work

Location: NY - Hicksville - 175 E. Old Country Road - 11801

Regular Hours: 40 / Week

Overtime Hours: 0 hour(s) Estimated Duration: 6 Month

If interested, please send your resume and contact info to hiring@excis.com

RDA Firewall Engineer

Location: NYC

To provide Engineering, Design and Tier-4 support for on-going Firewall related projects - including Data Highway, Wealth Management Technology Platform, ECU, Vendor handoffs with a special interest. The resource must be conversant with Netscreen, Nokia (with checkpoint firewall software) products and technology. Also required to have good understanding of Web hosting with a full understanding of underlying architectures, not limited to DNS Proxy, load balancing and Socks services.

Scope

Engineer, Design, Implement and Tier-4 Support networking components with a specialty in Firewall design, troubleshooting, maintenance and support

Responsibilities and Estimated Work Effort:

Job Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility-to provide senior level engineering, design and tier-4 technical support for the configuration, installation, and problem management of the Enterprise Network Netscreen and Nokia (with Checkpoint Firewall software) firewall infrastructure deployed within the Internet, Extranet, and Intranet environments. The infrastructure includes Netscreen, Nokia, and Check Point Firewalls.
• Provide input into the strategic and architecture direction for the global firewall infrastructure within both a dedicated and leveraged environment.
• Provide technical support for business and disaster recovery initiatives as it relates to the implementation of firewalls in creating a secure recovery environment.
• Establishes and maintains documentation regarding standards and policies surrounding deployment and troubleshooting of the firewall infrastructure as it applies to best practice industry standards.
• Develop and maintain documentation for implementation, operational support and various internal and external audits including topology drawings, cabling maps, port connections and usage, processes, and procedures.
• Work with other technology centers to leverage standards, knowledge, lessons learned and to ensure global cooperation across the organization.
• Participate in the review and analysis of internal projects and external connectivity issues that may have an impact on security (Change validation).

Required Skill Set:

• Must be proficient as it applies to TCP/UDP/IP networking, including the TCP and UDP protocol suites, IP sub-netting, VLSM, NAT, PAT(NAPT), QoS, and routing protocols.
• Must have a strong understanding of the OSI model as it relates to analyzing application flows end-to-end and be able to apply the knowledge while troubleshooting through-out the seven layers.
• Experience with various dedicated WAN and Internet access technologies.
• Must have a good understanding of IDS, IPS, and security scanning technologies
• Must have a good understanding of encryption technologies including IPSec, 3DES, AES, PGP.
• Experience working with vendor support organizations and managing a problem through resolution including the handling of vendor and internal escalations.
• Eight or more years of experience in network security systems positions, with at least 4 years experience in a pure information security position (senior firewall engineer)
• Strong “hands on” deployment and troubleshooting knowledge of Netscreen and Nokia (checkpoint firewall software), Security policy and ‘rule base’ development, Cisco switches and routers, and various network security architectures.
• Knowledge of Juniper and Cisco security products is plus.
• Financial Industry experience is plus.

Desired Education and Industry certification level:

• BS and MS Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Equivalent; CCIE security Certification or equivalent firewall certifications,

If interested, please send your resume and contact info to hiring@excis.com

RDA DESIGN ENGINEER

Location: NJ/NY

Responsibilities and Estimated Work Effort:

Required Skill set:

• 8-12 years, relevant work experience in technology network architecture, design & engineering techniques and standards including access to LAN/WAN, circuit/trunk sizing, terminating equipment, routing design, contingency and recovery planning. Knowledge of Cisco switches and routers, various network service architectures and transport technologies, access/egress arrangement. Facilities engineering, procurement and diagnostic techniques, project coordination, and project management.

Desired: CCIE Certification, BS and MS Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Equivalent

If interested, please send your resume and contact info to hiring@excis.com

Project Management

Location: NYC

PM2: Standard Project Manager w/Firewall

Job Description:

Project Manager will be responsible for developing and managing multiple complex technical (IT) project plans to completion within time and resource constraints. Typically, leads and/or manage multiple interrelated projects. Specific Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Analyzes proposed projects, develops detailed project plan schedules and identifies and assembles a project team; performs scheduling, tracking, reporting cost management, change management; establishes and manages critical contractual relationships with customers and/or external vendors (either directly or through vendor managers);
• Collect all pertinent documentation (survey results, contact information, project plans) and produce site-specific folder for centralized documentation referral,
• Coordinate project events, Adjust plan and schedule to meet contingencies,
• Develops and manages issues lists, mitigation plans and corrective actions.
• Distributes Project Plan and makes available all folder information to other organizations to permit assessment of their required work effort,
• Requires schedule information from all other organizations (customer schedule revisions and site survey results) and concurrence with schedule produced from the inputs, and
• Acts as escalation point for all Project issues.
• Capable of working with little or no supervision
• Excellent soft skills to deal with sponsor and client issues effectively
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Needs to be predictive, ensuring that the entire project team is aware of what the next steps are.
• Plan proactively , not re-actively
• Have an excellent understanding of what transpires in meetings, take good meeting minutes, and distribute quickly to the project team.
• Be available to work overtime and weekend hours to support cutovers and testing.

Require/Desired Skills:

• Working knowledge of firewall technology and experience with firewall implementation and migration work
• Program/Project Management – 5-10 Years Experience
• MS Project 2000, MS Office
• Knowledge of Network Topologies and Infrastructure
• Cisco LAN/WAN implementation experience
• Voice and VOIP product knowledge a plus
• PMP Preferred

Preferred Education:

• BA/BS in Management or related field

PM2: Project Manager

Job Description

Senior Project Manager (PIM) will be responsible for preparing project plans based on customer requirements, deployment factors and migration strategies. From the plan the PM will coordinate with the customer and the other organizations to develop a project schedule. After acceptance of the plan and schedule the PM will be responsible to keep the customer, management, and other organizations apprised of the project status. The Project Manager' role is one of a facilitator in orchestrating a smooth project flow. Specific Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Review customer documentation and interview elements of customer's organization to determine scope of work and schedule expectations (review schedule revisions and site surveys),
• MS-Project Plan Documents for Individual Projects,
• Collect all pertinent documentation (survey results, contact information, project plans) and produce site-specific folder for centralized documentation referral,
• Coordinate project events, Adjust plan and schedule to meet contingencies,
• Distributes Project Plan and makes available all folder information to other organizations to permit assessment of their required work effort,
• Requires schedule information from all other organizations (customer schedule revisions and site survey results) and concurrence with schedule produced from the inputs, and
• Requires recurring conformation for schedule commitments and early warning of potential problems.
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Have a good understanding of what transpires in meetings, take good meeting minutes, and distribute quickly to the project team.
• Good soft skills to deal with sponsor and client issues effectively
• Plan proactively, not re-actively.
• Capable of working with minimum supervision

Require/Desired Skills:

• Project Management – 5-10 Years Experience
• MS Project 2000
• MS Office
• Knowledge of Network Topologies and Infrastructure

Education:

• BA/BS in Management or related field
• MBA/MS (Preferred)

PM1: Junior Project Manager

Job Description

Project Manager (PIM) will be responsible for preparing project plans based on customer requirements, deployment factors and migration strategies. From the plan the PM will coordinate with the customer and the other organizations to develop a project schedule. After acceptance of the plan and schedule the PM will be responsible to keep the customer, management, and other organizations apprised of the project status. The Project Manager' role is one of a facilitator in orchestrating a smooth project flow. Specific Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Review customer documentation and interview elements of customer's organization to determine scope of work and schedule expectations (review schedule revisions and site surveys),
• MS-Project Plan Documents for Individual Projects,
• Collect all pertinent documentation (survey results, contact information, project plans) and produce site-specific folder for centralized documentation referral,
• Coordinate project events, Adjust plan and schedule to meet contingencies,
• Distributes Project Plan and makes available all folder information to other organizations to permit assessment of their required work effort,
• Requires schedule information from all other organizations (customer schedule revisions and site survey results) and concurrence with schedule produced from the inputs, and
• Requires recurring conformation for schedule commitments and early warning of potential problems.

Require/Desired Skills:

• Project Management – 2-4 Years Experience
• MS Project 2000
• MS Office

If interested, please send your resume and contact info to hiring@excis.com

Network Architect

Primary Work Location: Pennington, NJ

Synopsis of Position:

This Network Architect position will support the client onsite at their location. This position will be responsible for assessing technical, deployment, economic and operational requirements and managing the development of a technical solution. The Network Architect organizes and directs the activities of an engineering project team supporting the client’s data networking. This position also manages the development, distribution and team review of detailed design documentation; identifies and resolves technical issues encountered during network design; develops and documents technical migration strategies and plans; ensures engineering standards are met and project deadlines are adhered to.

Responsible for the following projects:

Head End Design Engineer

• Design engineering on the Head End of the WMTP Network
• Projects surrounding Head end and Back end connectivity
• Standards for the Head End
• Tier 4 support for Head End operational issues
• Capacity reviews of the Head End and Back end
• Overall Routing design between WMTP and Data Highway
• Data Center load sharing

WAN Design Engineer

• WAN design
• Diversity Planning
• Standards/Certification approval for WAN
• WAN capacity analysis
• WAN functionality and Performance

Required Degrees/Majors/Accreditations/Skills:

• Candidates must be able to effectively interact at multiple levels, from extreme technical detail to customer/executive management level.
• Candidates must have excellent client interface skills and superior technical knowledge in BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, MPLS, and Cisco products, with a minimum of 8-plus years of hands-on technical experience.
• Strong familiarity with AT&T’s products, services and processes is a plus
• Prior direct client-facing experience
• Prior experience supporting clients in the financial services industry.

If interested, please send your resume and contact info to hiring@excis.com

Network Analyst

Location: NYC

JOB DESCRIPTION & MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work with project managers and network engineers to determine client data network requirements. Assist Design Engineer in developing the network solution and design document. Determine cabling requirements needed in the solution. Submit and schedule cable orders and validate connectivity. Support after hours and weekend cutovers

If interested, please send your resume and contact info to hiring@excis.com

Network and implementation engineers

Location: NYC

Responsibilities: both design and implement network solutions.

JOB DESCRIPTION & MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsibilities:

• Contact client for initial project investigation
• *Investigate current network layout, utilization, technology, and Capacity
• Work with client to determine Firewall requirements and account for them in design
• Using Visio, cleanly draw a design for an initial solution based on the client’s needs and current network.
• Write configurations as part of design summary and get approval from network architects on all designs
• Present design solutions to clients.
• Configure and test routers and hubs per each design implementation

SKILLS, EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED / DESIRED

Required:

5-10 Years Internetworking Experience – Cisco LAN Switches and Routers (6500, 7500);

Experience with NAI Sniffers

Desired:

CCIE Certification Preferred, BS Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Equivalent

If interested, please send your resume and contact info to hiring@excis.com

Engineer 1 - Mechanical

Job Class: Specialty

Resource Type: Contractor

Overall Experience: 04-06 Yrs.

Region: NY

Work Location: NY - Melville - 15 Park Drive - 11747

Additional Location Details: 25 Hub Drive - Melville

Regular Hours: 40 / Week

Overtime Hours: 0 hour(s)

Estimated Duration: 6 Month

Position Description:

Position:

• Program Support Analyst The person filling this position will be responsible for evaluating and determining if the electric energy-efficient equipment contained in customer applications, particularly lighting and HVAC, qualifies for incentives under LIPA’s Commercial Construction Program.
• Additionally, the person filling this position will be required to perform additional day to day administrative tasks, including basic spreadsheet analysis related to program metrics and performance and, on occasion, assist in field inspections.
• Individual most be self-motivated, able to work under minimal supervision, capable of meeting strict time-tables in order to meet customer, sales staff and program schedules.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Evaluate equipment listed on customer rebate applications to determine its qualification for incentives under LIPA’s Commercial Construction Program.
• Provide general technical support to LIPA sales personnel related to their delivery of the program which may include assisting in field inspections.
• Generate transmittal memos for program invoices and maintain invoice files.
• Perform basic analysis of program under the direction of the Program Managers.

Educational Requirements:

• Associates Degree
• Technical Certification in any of the technologies listed in the technical requirements section
• Related work experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel

Technical Requirements:

• Basic knowledge and understanding of the terminology associated with the following types of equipment
• Fluorescent lighting fixtures and controls (lumens, CRI, efficiency, etc)
• HVAC systems (SEER, EER, BTUh, tons, HSPF, etc.)
• Motors (RPM)
• Variable Frequency Drives
• Air Compressors
• Ability to interpret the information on manufacturer specification sheets for the technologies listed above
• Ability to read and interpret building plans and equipment schedules as they relate to the equipment rebated under LIPA’s Commercial Construction Program

If interested, please send your resume and contact info to hiring@excis.com

Cable Analyst

Location: NYC

PM1: Cable Analyst

Job Description/ Skills/ Education

Job Description and major responsibilities:

• Review CMS package sent to IPC for work to be done. Discuss or perform walk through of CMS package with Cable Analyst.
• Submit complete Change Management to SIR for network turn up. Include full description of network impact, backout procedures, CPR#, EAN#, and Engineer (as Primary Contact) on SIR
• Submit manpower required for server and equipment installation
• Submit request for space for any data center rack space required
• Supervise equipment installation and cabling work.
• Test connections after completed by CMS
• Coordinate with site engineer and TR&P for network turn up
• Complete CMS work by placing ports in use or not in use for connections and disconnection's completed
• Coordinate with Circuit Vendor for circuit turn up, report any trouble tickets required (Provisioning)
• Conduct Connectivity test with client to hand off to production
• Work nights and weekends with short notice when required
• Place design summary and drawing in turnover directory for Operations

Require/Desired Skills:

• Cables and cabling – 3-7 Years Experience
• Patch panels
• Fiber knowledge
• Knowledge of Network Topologies and Infrastructure
• Basic cable equipment: i.e. Mod tap, fluke meters, thunderbirds
• Voice and VOIP product knowledge a plus

Preferred Education:

• AA or BA Degree

If interested, please send your resume and contact info to hiring@excis.com

Finance 1 - Professional

Resource Type: Contractor

Job Class: Professional & Administrative

Overall Experience: 01-03 Yrs.

Region: NY

Work Location: NY - Melville - 1800 Old Walt Whitman Road - 11747

Additional Location Details: Actual Location - 25 Hub Drive Mellville NY 11747

Regular Hours: 16 / Week

Overtime Hours: 0 hour(s)

Estimated Duration: 6 Month

Position Description:

Financial Systems act as liaisons between accountants and programmers to design specifications and make enhancements to existing systems. They are also responsible for running the existing daily, weekly and monthly interfaces form the various Oracle Feeder Systems into the General Ledger as well as numerous interfaces from external systems. These systems include the Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Projects Module, Oracle Accounts Payable, Oracle Inventory, PowerPlant Fixed Assets, PeopleSoft Payroll. Analysts must understand how these systems function on a business level so that they can assist the clients in solving problems such as out of balance conditions and reacting to changing business requirements. On a technical level analysts must know the underlying data structures of these systems in order to access the underlying information.

Analysts are called upon to develop applications and reports, on all platforms that are outside of the IT development environment or assist IT in the development or upgrading of significant corporate systems. Typically this includes utilizing the Company standard systems development methodology and project management tools. Analysts have participated as team members in several significant IT projects.

Financial Systems may assist IT in modification JCL and production schedules for running processes and reports. Analysts are on call at night and weekends and must be familiar with the production jobs and may assist in restoration of data when jobs fail. An understanding scheduling software CA-7 for Mainframe and USCC for Midrange applications are necessary.

Qualifications:

A Bachelor's Degree (or progress toward) in Computer Science or Accounting with 1-3 years experience in various disciplines within the Information Technology area. An understanding of Oracle Financial Software including knowledge of Oracle Database file structures and data retrieval techniques is desired. Knowledge of application programming languages such as SQL, HTML, and Visual Basic and strong MS excel and MS Access are required. A working knowledge of Great Plains, Monarch, Mark 4 and TOAD are helpful.

Additional Information:

Please NOTE:

Candidate with less than 1 or greater than 3 years of experience will not be considered.

Worksite Location:

25 HUB DRIVE MELVILLE, NY

RECENT GRADUATE SOUGHT FOR PART-TIME (16-24 hours per week)OPPORTUNITY

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