Currently Seeking a junior-level System Engineer.

Currently seeking a junior-level System Engineer to work onsite in Mt. Weather, Virginia to write new and run existing SQL statements for an application for FEMA. The application, which is Oracle based, resides in a Linux environment. The successful candidate will be required to have a basic knowledge of Unix/Linux commands as well as basic Oracle commands. In addition, the candidate will need to have solid SQL experience working within a Java interface.

Requirements:
Active Secret or TS clearance preferred;
Experience managing, administering, operating and maintaining enterprise wide IT solutions;

Salary:
Up to $80K with Full Benefits, DOE.

Please send resume and salary requirement to:
Andrea Roe
aroe@pssfed.com

Very truly yours,

Andrea Roe

POSITION TITLE: Database Programmer/Analyst

• POSITION TITLE: Database Programmer/Analyst 
• BUSINESS PURPOSE: new position created on account of bandwidth issues amongst the existing team due to a current spike in work volume 
• TEAM SIZE: 4-person group 
• CLIENT INFORMATION: Our client is a consulting firm offering services in economics, finance, and business strategy to leading law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies. Our client provides their clientele with a unique combination of quantitative and analytical expertise, and an understanding of business issues across a wide range of industries. 
• CLIENT LOCATION: Washington, DC (Downtown) 
• ASSIGNMENT DURATION: 4-month contract with potential for permanence 
• WORK HOURS: Monday – Friday, Standard First Shift Hours…OT is pretty standard, and a typical week includes 10-hour workdays and approximately 50 hours per week 
• START DATE: ASAP, but will work with a 2-week notice if need be 
• COMPENSATION: $40-50 per hour, depending upon experience

  PROCESS: (1) Meet with a TEKsystems recruiter. (2) Provide TEKsystems with an updated MS Word version of your resume and 2 supervisory technical references from the recent past. (3) Phone screen with TEKsystems client. (4) Personal interview with TEKsystems client. 

• TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
  3+ years of database programming experience
  Strong data skills, having worked with large data sets (just under a terabyte)
  Strong database language skills (namely SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL)
  Some experience with front-end scripting (e.g., Python, C Script, VBScript)
  Experience with data analysis and data migration
  Strong experience with SQL Server 2000/2005
  Familiarity with Oracle 9i and MySQL
  Experience performing data loads, indexing, joins, and queries
  Understanding of HTML and various web applications 
• Opportunity: TEKsystems staffs a consistent variety of positions for myriad clients. 
• Long Term: TEKsystems works with you to advance your career over the long term. 
• Service: TEKsystems goes the extra mile to service our clients and consultants. 
• Compensation: TEKsystems pays on an hourly basis with optional benefits.

Staffing Firm Request: Experienced Linux Systems Architect needed.

I represent a very large media company in Los Angeles. This is a very well known and well established media company.

The company is seeking an experienced Linux Systems Architect. In a nutshell, the company currently has 800 Linux servers and is expanding it to 2000 servers in the next year. They need an Architect to help them design and navigate them though their scalability issues. The company is expanding extremely fast and there is a ton of room for growth. This is literally one of the hottest companies in LA right now. Below is a job description. This role is in Los Angeles, so they would have to relocate the candidate. If you feel like you would be a good fit for this or if you know of anyone else that would be good, please contact:

James Parselle: jparselle@focusedstaffing.com. 310 966 7231.

Main Responsibilities:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Wanted: Web Application Developer

Position: Web Application Developer

Knexus Research Corporation, an information technology research startup located in Springfield, VA, is looking for a web application developer to support one of our US Government clients located in Washington, DC. Knexus provides a casual, supportive, flexible, and cutting edge R&D work environment for creative, technically sophisticated, and diligent individuals. We offer a competitive compensation package that includes retirement benefits, health care allowances, two weeks vacation, and one week sick leave.

The Web Application Developer we seek will be the chief contact responsible for delivery of robust, easy to use, and attractive web applications. You must have strong development as well as communication skills combined with the ability to work effectively in a multi-project team. This position will provide you with the opportunity to make and implement many of the design choices on a project whose success depends on your ability to follow through. Experience working on open source projects, particularly using LAMP technologies, is of strong interest to us, even if outside of a work environment. We are staffing this position in a relatively short timeframe, so please send us a cover letter and resume immediately. If available, links to public websites you have worked on, along with a description of your contributions, is helpful.

Duties and Responsibilities
* Interact with project sponsors to elicit and document application requirements
* Develop, document, and communicate design alternatives to sponsors and co-developers
* Code, document, test, and validate developed applications
* Liaison with system administration to test and deploy applications in Unix environments
* Write design documents, deployment instructions, and end user manuals

Skills
* Experience designing and implementing web user interfaces
* Interest in laying out intuitive graphical interfaces
* Proficiency with server-side scripting (PHP, Perl)
* Proficiency with client-side technologies such as JavaScript and CSS
* Experience working with relational databases (SQL); experience with Oracle a plus
* Familiarity with standard data representations such as XML
* Ability to communicate effectively in writing
* Familiarity with the Open Source community and Open Source tools
* Familiarity with Unix and the ability to be productive in a Unix environment
* Strong interpersonal and communications skills; ability to work independently as well as in teams

Experience
4+ years experience software development

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Other
Work location: The candidate will work onsite at the client location in South DC
Citizenship: US Citizenship required, no clearance necessary, must be eligible
Interview and selection: Applicants should be prepared to discuss and demonstrate an existing application that they have worked on in the past.
Application: Please send a resume and cover letter to groups.webappdev@knexusresearch.com. Links to existing web applications preferred.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or Vietnam era, or other eligible veteran status, or any other protected factor.

Staffing Firm Request: Linux Technical Support Engineer

We are currently recruiting
Submitted by Angela Greggs (not verified) on Wed, 07/25/2007 - 11:57.

We are currently recruiting for a Linux Technical Support Engineer in the Washington, DC/Virginia area.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

•Provide technical support to customers, prospects and partners, and ensure any issues are diagnosed to root cause.
•Resolve issues by providing fixes and/or workarounds.
•Interface with engineering to resolve issues.
•Provide on-call support when required.
•Maintain technical services lab for problem reproduction.
•Internal training as needed.
•Demonstration systems.
•Knowledge transfer.

Job Qualifications:

•Extensive Linux experience.
•Very strong knowledge of storage.
•Understanding of file systems.
•Familiarity with TPC/IP, Clustering, SAN and NAS, Fibre channel, Volume Management.
•Scripting and/or programming experience.
•Storage industry customer support experience is very desirable.
•Requires Bachelor of Science degree in computer science or equivalent.

To learn more, please contact angela.greggs@corestaff.com

VOLUNTEER REQUEST: Reformat and post the archives from the old-website into the "NOVALUG Wiki like thingy"

This file contains dozens of presentations from the old website that might be useful to people. If anybody has some spare time they could donate, the presentations would be easiest to access through the site Wiki which will make them searchable via the site search module.

Archive Files

Thank you!