MUST be willing to be on site at clients in Boston area.

NO REMOTE- Candidate must be located in or near Boston

Senior Technology Consulting Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide white glove service at the desktop level
• Provide clients with technical expertise pertaining to networking, mobility, virtualization, security, and cloud-based solutions.

• Evaluate, recommend, and execute new technologies.

• Update existing infrastructure to ensure optimal network performance, security, and availability.

• Develop IT strategies to ensure the networking, compute, and storage infrastructure meets current and future requirements based on needs and regulations.

• Have an understanding of on premise, hybrid, and cloud architectures as well as proven best practices that enable high operational resiliency.

• Candidate must have the ability to work in a variety of environments, have excellent follow-up skills, provide detailed documentation, and be able to work effectively and independently.

• Participation in proposal content, product research, and sales meetings with prospective clients may be required.

• Understanding fundamentals of IT governance

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• Certifications strongly preferred: Microsoft expert certification (Cloud technology), CISSP, CCSP and other related industry certifications.

• Minimum of 5 plus years' experience with the maintaining, and supporting of various technology environments

• Prior consulting experience is highly desirable.

• Comprehensive understanding of operating platforms, connectivity, security, and information management

• Fundamental knowledge of advanced troubleshooting theory and practice

• Deep knowledge of the complete Microsoft SaaS cloud stack including Microsoft 365, EMS, and Azure Active Directory.

• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Azure IaaS services including virtual machines, storage, networking, backup/site recovery and security.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure PaaS platforms such as SQL databases and Elastic pools, Azure App Services, and web application firewalls

• Knowledge of on-premises based technologies such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, LAN/WAN

• Systems Center knowledge a plus

• Strong interpersonal and client management skills

• Must be a team player.

• Must be strong in all aspects of Microsoft back-office platforms.

• Strong hands-on networking, firewalls, routing and switching experience.

• Experience with virtualization technologies, such as VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft

• Outstanding and proven communication at all levels within an organization, project management, and organizational skills required.

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