Sr. Systems Analyst

Businesses face challenges every day building responsive and agile IT capabilities to grow and stay ahead. Since everyone has access to the same tools, your competitive advantage directly depends on how you apply technology – on the people leading, supporting and optimizing your IT initiatives. USM Business Systems, established in 1999, is an industry-leading private talent management firm, specializing in providing unique IT turnkey solutions, IT staffing solutions, and Talent management insights, enabling you to sustain a truly competitive advantage in this fast-moving environment. USM has offices throughout the US and offshore delivery centers in India. USM is a certified Minority Business Enterprise and is a CMMi Level 3 Organization.

USM is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT Temporary Staffing firms in the US and most recently was ranked #3 on the list of the Top Temporary Staffing firms in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2016).

Job Title: Sr. Systems Analyst

Location: Washington DC –Locals Only

Duration: 9+ months

F2F Interview

Abilities/Skills:

• 8+ years of IT experience working to support and enhance infrastructure and DR capabilities within an organization.

• Systems engineering and technical expertise in the planning, design, and implementation of high availability IBM mainframes & AIX open systems.

• Knowledge of backup and recovery methodologies and business continuity concepts.

• Experience in the development, testing, and execution of DR plans with IBM’s Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, and SVC Global Mirror with Change Volumes in order to verify functionality, timeliness, and accuracy of recovery processes and procedures.

• User acceptance testing and application verification to meet SLA/RPO/RTO objectives.

• Operational support in the planning, design, replication, and synchronization of secure, high-availability systems and applications.

• Demonstrated ability to manage infrastructure-related projects including installation of hardware and software solutions (for mainframe, distributed servers, storage, middleware, and networking)

• Knowledge of and experience in managing DR environment/configuration projects and/or other data center operations projects.

• In-depth of knowledge of system development methodologies; understanding of technologies employed at the FEPOC; experience in managing and leveraging cross-functional teams in a matrix environment.

• Ability to lead dynamic, energized, and highly creative multi-discipline high-performance work teams in learning and applying new skills/techniques to respond to business needs.

• Leadership skills, including: coaching, organizing, integrating, directing, controlling and motivating.

• Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and to apply it to business needs.

• Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate and persuade customers, employees, and management at all levels and thrive in a cross-functional environment.

• Excellent oral and written communications; an ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding. Must be able to influence and partner with Functional Managers to achieve wins for not only own objectives and deliverables but also those of the broad organization.

• Ability to analyze project requirements and determine resources needed to meet objectives, possessing good technical skills, including scheduling, estimating, and costing.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills.

• Knowledge of technology product offerings and experience with hardware, software and software development methodologies to understand the impact of a new project.

• Proficiency in project management planning and estimation tools.

Preferred:

• Health Care Industry experience.

• Prior experience as Sr. Systems Engineer for multiple infrastructure projects that include both internal, external, and vendor resources.

• Prior experience with initiating, tracking, and, when required, working with Procurement teams on infrastructure-related procurements with external vendors

• Good understanding of data warehouses running in AIX/ DB2 UDB environments with Cognos as the BI reporting tool.

• Good working knowledge of configuring and managing IBM TPC/R for data replication.

• Experience managing storage configuration and LUN layout in IBM SAN devices.

• Working knowledge of network components (switches, routers, port configurations).

• Excellent knowledge of MS Office tool set – MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project and MS Visio.

• Strong communication skills.

• Ability to work independently.

• Ability to work under pressure

• Ability to provide structure in a rapidly changing environment.

• High motivation.

• Positive attitude.

• Experience in managing extensive client interaction and schedule client meetings on a weekly basis for infrastructure projects.

• Experience in creating required Plan of Action (POAs) for all major environment implementations that include detailed steps and activities with identified ownership and execution timing.

• Experience in ensuring that appropriate project communication occurs on an on-going basis with internal and external stakeholders.

• Seeks out opportunities on a continuous basis to enhance the customer relationship.

• Understanding of or experience with Service Level Measurements with contractual obligations and their application to infrastructure projects

If you are interested in the below position please forward your profile to Saikirann@usmsystems(dot)com or call me on 703-880-4146.