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Java Developer

Contract position in Issaquah, WA

Seeking 2 Java contractors immediately to help with workload on his website customization project.   Developer will be building customized websites for the client's own customers using Jira tool. Both contractors must have excellent communication skills; will be with onshore and offshore team.  Must be flexible to work different hours if necessary if asked. They are only committing to one to two months right now, so it’s a pure contract situation to supplement current team.

Qualifications:

• Java, Spring and Hibernate a must
• JSF preferred
• Excellent communication skills.  Will be not only interfacing with the onshore team, but also with the offshore team.
• Must be able to work 6am-2pm to overlap with offshore team.
  

SolutionsIQ ScrumMaster: St Louis, MO

Are you passionate about helping software development teams collaborate and deliver? SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for a ScrumMaster to work in the Seattle area, Dallas or Atlanta.

Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban, and we provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers.

This role serves as a liaison between technical and non-technical departments, and communicates with other management, developers, product managers, and technical support specialists on product issues. The ideal candidate is experienced with both Scrum and traditional project management practices.

Responsibilities:

Support the product development process:

• Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Maintain process documentation.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles.

Support the Product Owner:

• Assist as needed with backlog maintenance.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.

Support the product team:

• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
• Empower the team to self-organize.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience.
• Must be a Certified ScrumMaster with 5+ years of project management experience and 2 years of ScrumMaster experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
  A thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies,
• values, and procedures.
• Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
• Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential.
• Collaborative approach to driving decisions.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.

Optional:

• Experience in a cellular communications industry

Personal Characteristics:

• Passion to proactively seek ways to improve processes.
• Self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position and ability to constructively resolve problems.
• Creative, resourceful, and innovative at tackling complex challenges.
• Demonstrated aptitude for acquiring knowledge and skills and readily adopting
• new technologies.
• Respectful, professional interpersonal working style.

As an Agile professional, why would you choose SolutionsIQ?

When we ask our employees this same question, they explain that the best part about working at SolutionsIQ is the opportunity to collaborate daily with an outstanding group of Agile experts from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. From the day we began using Agile practices in 2004, our commitment has steadily grown. Today we use Agile in running the entire company--“we practice what we preach!” We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. We provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers. These software development projects are a laboratory for our Agile consultancy. We encourage our Agile practitioners to participate as students and as thought leaders in the Agile community.

Senior Software Design Engineer in Test - C#, SQL

On-going contract role in Bellevue, WA

Join a team of passionate engineers working on applications related to entertainment and gaming.  This is a great opportunity to help shape the story of one of the key growing assets of this company.

Technical Skills:

• Strong in C#, test automation expereince
• Strong test experience with WCF
• Testing ofSQL queries 
•  .NET 3.5/4.0, XML
• Experience integrating enterprise services

Exposure to building web services (SOAP) Functional Skills:

• Automated Builds (preferably, using MSBuild)
• Automated Unit Testing using VSTS 2010
• Automated Deployment
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM
• Knowledge on VSTF 2010 tools - Source Control , Test Manager, Lab Manager and Bugs Management

Deliverables:

• Delivery of a features. Code, code Inspections
• Technical specifications
• Automated builds, automated unit testing and automated deployments
  

Senior Software Design Engineer - C#, WCF SQL

Contract Position in Bellevue, WA

Join a team of passionate engineers working on applications related to entertainment and gaming.  This is a great opportunity to help shape the story of one of the key growing assets of this company.

Technical Skills:

• Strong in C#  
• .NET 3.5/4.0, XML
• Must have a strong understanding and expereince with WCF
• SQL Server
• Experience integrating enterprise services
  SOA
• Exposure to building web services (SOAP)
• Experience in design patterns

Functional Skills:

• Automated Builds (preferably, using MSBuild)
• Automated unit testing using VSTS 2010
• Automated deployment
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM
• Knowledge on VSTF 2010 tools - Source Control , Test Manager, Lab
• Manager and Bugs Management

Deliverables:

• Delivery of a features. Code, code inspections
• Technical specifications
• Automated builds, automated unit testing and automated deployments

Helpdesk Support Engineer

Position Description – Basic Function:

Provides technical support and serves as primary customer contact regarding problem definition and resolution for end-user computer issues. 

Essential Responsibilities & Duties:

• Efficiently install, configure, and test PC desktop and laptop hardware and software in a Microsoft Active Directory network environment.
• Provides troubleshooting support for complex and critical end-user computer issues and determines hardware/software solutions.
• End-user support for a broad range of systems including laptops, desktops, remote access, mobile phones, printers, and applications.
• Performs installation, maintenance, administration, and upgrades of software, and hardware.
• Tracks and maintains an IT asset inventory including hardware and software.
• Creates and updates technical documentation, user instructions, FAQ, and communicates company policy and procedures.
• Manages phone system. 
• Serves as a liaison with IT outsource provider, vendors and other third-party providers:
• Investigates sources of equipment and services, and purchases with limited authority.
• Evaluates vendor cost and quality of equipment and services.

Education and Experience Requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree and certification such as A+ desirable. 
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in a corporate IT or technical-support environment providing hardware installation, software configuration, system troubleshooting, and user support.

Skill Requirements:

• Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2010, Exchange 2007/2010, Internet Explorer, Virtual Private Networking (VPN), Anti-virus, Wireless network.
• Strong experiences in account setup and maintenance (Outlook, Exchange, Active Directory) , desktop and laptop migration. 
• Knowledge of a broad range of relevant and alternative computer systems, applications, and equipment is desirable.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical personnel.
• Excellent communications, problem solving, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with support ticket tracking systems and ability to independently manage a ticket workload.

CTO/Vice President of Technology

FTE position in Seattle, WA

Position Summary

The CTO/VP of Technology is responsible for the overall technology strategy for the company, development of the company’s SaaS online learning platform, and production systems operations to ensure users have reliable 24X7 access to the company’s digital curriculum solutions.  The CTO/VP Technology oversees the planning and implementation of all technology systems, including internal IT and business systems.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Collaborate with members of the executive team to establish a technology strategy consistent with the company’s goals and priorities.
• Work closely with Product Management and the VP of Content Development to ensure technology development plans align with content development plans to deliver leadership digital curriculum solutions on time and on budget.
• Manage and direct application development.
• Manage and direct production systems operations.
• Keep abreast of government regulations related to technology systems as applicable to an education business and ensure compliance.
• Develop and oversee department budget.
• Manage and direct the planning, allocation, training, and evaluation of staff for the department.
• Oversee project management and workflow of the department.
• Review operating results of the department and compare with established goals.
• Ensure clear and consistent communication with members of the executive team and other departments regarding technology systems and projects.
• Analyze and evaluate new technologies and make recommendations for new systems, software, or products.
• Manage third party consultants and vendors.  Negotiate, review, and approve contracts for consulting, hardware, software, services, and maintenance. 
• Promote a culture of collaboration, innovation, entrepreneurship, accountability and overall excellence within the technology organization.

Qualifications

• The successful candidate will have a Masters degree, proven leadership and management experience, and have demonstrated expertise in current technologies. The ideal candidate will have previously been responsible for the development and delivery of a mission critical application and served as CTO/VP of Technology for a SaaS company.
• This leader will bring a deep sense of personal responsibility and accountability along with drive, intelligence and passion for technology.  The ideal candidate approaches work with a flexible and adaptable attitude toward changes in the business environment and has proven his or her ability to work through conflict, build trust, and influence outcomes through outstanding interpersonal skills with all kinds of people at all levels.
• Additionally the candidate has experience setting the technology direction for multiple teams – evaluating options, recommending and making decisions, and evaluating results.  Must have experience and appreciation for enterprise-scale software development methodologies (Agile experience is desirable) and associated best practices.
  

Senior/Principal SW Engineer – Management GUI and User Experience

Job Description:

The Unified Compute Platform team is looking for a senior engineer to design and implement a modern web-based management console. He or she will guide the creation and development of the user experience for an Infrastructure as a Service Private Cloud product.

Job Functions:

• Work with product management to develop a roadmap for usability and manageability of an early development compute cloud product.
• Work with other developers to understand the functionality being developed, and define the user model for the management of that functionality.
• Guide the evolution of a Web-based management console for that product.
• Design and implement a management console that is both user friendly and unit test ready.
• Select and drive technology for automated testing of the management console and other cloud management technology.
• Work with testers and customers to validate user models and identify and resolve usability issues, and drive continuous improvement in the ease of installation, management, and use of a cloud storage product.

Qualifications:

• 4-8 years of software development experience
• 2-3 years of experience with Javascript , AJAX, JQuery,  and CSS
  • Icon illustration and Photoshop/bitmap generation
• 2-3 years of experience with usability and user interface design
• Experience with automated testing frameworks
• Experience with Microsoft .Net Platform and Razor MVC view engine
• Experience with the design and testing of distributed software is highly desirable
• Experience with storage system management a plus.
• HTML5 experience a plus
• Must be able to present a portfolio including  body of work
  

Storage Engineer

FTE position in Bellevue, WA

• Deep understanding (including packet level) of ISCSI and FCoE.
• Strong production experience troubleshooting (incl. command line interface) VMWare ESX in SAN environments.
• Experience provisioning and administrating VMWare ESX, Solaris, Linux

Senior Software Developer

Contract position in Seattle, WA

Job Description

This position is responsible for delivering stories on projects and developing the next generation of software for our client.  This position helps evolve and improve the architecture and development patterns. This position encourages leadership, creativity and the enthusiasm of participating in a startup business with a wide range of software development opportunities.

Duties:

• Employ the technologies that comprise the client's technology stack to find creative and efficient solutions to implement new functionality or sustain and improve existing systems.  Evaluate new technologies to further enhance system capabilities.
• Evolve and improve the architectural and development patterns employed at client when implementing the projects to which assigned.
• Participate in and evolve Agile or Lean methodologies and approaches.
• Break down requirements into assigned discrete development tasks and then produce deliverables as part of feature development teams.
• Interact with cross functional teams to define, implement, test, and deploy system enhancements.
• Often lead feature development teams.

Qualifications:

• 5 years minimum experience designing, developing and shipping software products over multiple product release cycles with experience in:
  • System Architecture with focus on SOA and n-tier design
  • Designing for performance with caching and threading models
  • Development of database schema and stored procedures in a modern RDBMS such as SQL, Oracle, etc…
  • Development of Web Services with WCF, REST
  • Development of data interaction components with ORMs such as Entity Framework, Linq, ActiveRecord, etc…
  • Development of Web Sites with MVC, AJAX, jQuery, CSS, Javascript
• Experience with agile or lean project management methodologies
• Experience with unit test patterns and practices, including test driven development approaches
• Ability to lead small to mid-size teams to accomplish assigned tasks
  

Sr. Producer

Contract position in Renton, WA

Job Description: 

• Interfaces and communicates effectively with Development, Brand Management, Technology Services, and R&D, as well as external partners, vendors, and licensees on a regular basis
• Works with internal and external resources to create in-depth design documents and develop realistic production schedules with detailed milestones
• Directs workflow and resource scheduling for the Project Management, Development, QA, and Build Engineering Makes day-to-day decisions on Program design based on input from key stakeholders
• Gathers input and provides accurate quality evaluations and detailed recommendations
• Reviews products for spec requirements, quality, and progress
• Reports product development status to upper management and manages release activities
• Manages Business & Development requirements
• As a Producer/Tech Project Manager, successfully deployed a similar number of systems and in-house applications
• 2-4 years working as a Producer, or similar, managing an external Development team
• 2-4 years business development or licensor/licensee relations experience
• 2-4 years experience with project budgetary processes, profit, loss, and return on investment required
• Experience with an asset control system such as CVS or Perforce required
• Experience with project management software such as Microsoft Project or similar required
• BA or BS preferred. MBA or Masters is ideal. However, five or more years of game industry or technology production experience would be an acceptable substitution
• Highly capable with requirements analysis, software development, databases, hardware, quality assurance, and technology operations
• Experience reconciling iterative software development with a waterfall project methodology, or combination of waterfall and agile (network, infrastructure, or widely cross-functional) is

Skills Required: 

• Provides input to junior producers, leads, and other team members
• Plans budgetary items such as project headcount, hardware, and software
• Provides reasonable estimates of time and materials required to complete project vision and scope goals outlined by Producers and Senior Management
  Identifies and prioritizes the key issues that must be addressed for projects to succeed
• Works with teams to identify, analyze, and resolve project problems
• Conducts progress and deliverable reviews during development and adjusts scope and schedule accordingly
• Manages requirements and specifications
• Leads staff working with cross-functional teams to ensure successful requirements management for the project
• Works closely with other managers and project leads to ensure that the entire project life cycle is a quality process
• Drives the use of standards
• Participates in Business process review and redesign
• Implements and tracks related process improvement efforts
• Identifies and communicates organizational and process solutions to mitigate risks
• Establishes processes and work assignments
• Identifies leading-edge techniques and methodologies for their area of expertise
• Serves as liaison with other teams’ Business and Technical management
• Submits weekly and monthly communiqués to stakeholders

Skills Preferred but Not Required: 

• Data Privacy experience
• Online Registration System Experience
• RightNow Technologies or similar CRM system Experience highly desirable
  Minimum Years of Relevant Experience: 5
  

SQL Database Administrator
 
FTE position in Seattle, WA

Job Description 

Our client islooking for a bright, innovative and highly organized SQL Database Administrator to join their growing team. The new Database Administrator will be responsible for leading the team in database modeling and maintenance for both new and existing databases in high traffic, high availability SQL applications in a clustered environment. The DBA is ultimately responsible for reviewing all stored procedures, triggers and indexes written by Application Developers prior to moving them into a production environment. Optimum database performance for stored procedures and applications is a priority.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Database team member covering the build, deployment, backups, and high availability of our online product offering.
• Responsible for ensuring availability and performance of the databases that support the system. This will include 24x7 on call support as required.
• Work to ensure that the associated hardware resources are allocated to the databases and to ensure high availability and performance tuning.
• Proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime.
• Responsible for providing trend analysis to management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management.
• Responsible for troubleshooting and problem solving of SQL development.
• Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout and upgrades.
• Lead in all areas surrounding our data, its security, integrity and availability.
• Perform the configuration and setup of databases and maintain the database performance criteria.
• Create stored procedures and triggers and to assist the Application Developers with the development of optimum SQL applications.
• Develop and maintain proper security of the database, which includes access for changes, application access and end-user interfaces.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation for all new development, maintenance changes and upgrades.
• Utilize numerous sources (publications, seminars, workshops, trade shows) to keep current with technology trends - especially those, which have applicability or can otherwise benefit the firm.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or like field.
• Minimum of 7+ years MS SQL Server Database Administration experience.
• MCSE/MCDBA 2000/2005 or above desired.
• Experience managing multiple MS SQL 2005/2000 RDBMS on large systems in a clustered environment.
• Proficient with database replication and able to tune to optimize replication.
• Experience with MS SQL Integration Services highly desired.
• Experience with T SQL, and DTS stored procedures.
• Strong self-sufficiency and initiative working on Database projects.
• Practical experience in managing the internal and external MS SQL database security.
• Practical experience in monitoring and tuning a database to provide a high availability service.
• Experience with MS SQL Reporting Services highly desired.
• Effective written and verbal communications. Ability to convey technical issues and material to non-technical people.
• Exceptional documentation skills are required.
• Comfortable with new technologies in an ever changing environment.
• Working with and designing of disaster recovery plans and testing strongly preferred.
• Ability to pass a pre-employment criminal background check

Project Manager/Scrum Master (SW Development)

FTE in Boulder, CO

Senior SQL Server Developer  
 
FTE position in Seattle, WA 
 
Job Description

Our client, a SaaS company in Seattle in the education market, is looking for a bright, innovative and highly organized Senior SQL Developer to join our growing team. The new Software Engineer will be responsible for collaborating with other staff to develop, test and deploy critical applications using SQL Server technologies

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinate with the Client Support team to address platform defects and issues reported by customers.
• Assist senior-level technical staff and Product Management to build, test, and deploy new features or enhancements to existing features.
• Utilize both Agile and traditional software lifecycle methodologies.
• Analyze performance of software interfaces and identify alternatives for optimizing the usage of computer resources.
• Apply generally accepted programming standards and techniques to assure efficient program logic and data manipulation.
• Participate in designing, coding, testing, debugging, configuring, and documenting and software.
• Provide assistance and routine consultation to users in the development of operating systems and software.
• Plan and execute software version upgrade releases and custom interfaces.
• Collaborate with others to develop alternative system and software designs.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years of direct development experience in Microsoft SQL Server technologies, including SQL 2005 and 2007
• Strong knowledge of and experience with Microsoft SQL programming and best practices required.
• Background with data warehouse and OLTP highly desired; OLAP would be helpful.
• Knowledge of .NET. including C# 
• nHibernate and ADO.Net
• Ability to pass a pre-employment criminal background check.
  

Software Engineer - Java

FTE position in Bellevue, WA

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be part of a small agile team of experienced software engineers enhancing existing and creating exciting new services for our client's rCloud software.

• Day-to-day development activities include participating in designs, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation
• Self-motivated SCRUM team member with a strong customer focus and dedication to quality work
• Enjoys participating in different development tasks from sprint to sprint within a self-managing and self-organizing team
• 2-5 years of hardcore of experience with Java, object oriented programming, and experience working with databases
• 2-5 years of commercial programming experience on Windows Server and UNIX variants.
• Strong systems development and networking experience.
• Experience with VMware APIs (e.g. VDDK), ZFS, OpenSolaris,
• Experience in delivering and maintaining large scalable cloud services a big plus
• Strong communication skills in both written and verbal form.
  

Project Manager

Contract Position in Issaquah, WA

Description of Services

Project Manager will assist the Program Management Office (PMO) including, but not limited to, the following activities:

Project Management:

1. Ensure all program issues and risks are tracked and managed
2. Manage schedules, status, issues, risks, and dependencies between workstreams
3. Track, monitor, and assist with physical deployment activities
4. Assist with functional (LOB) deployment activities
5. Assist with running User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test cases
 
Communicate:

1. Create (as needed) and maintain the program office status reporting mechanisms, including newsletters, scorecards, etc.
2. Maintain, manage, and utilize program communications plans.  Maintain the programs’s SharePoint site.

Additional Activities:

1. Complete other PMO activities at the direction of the PMO Manager and other key project stakeholders

Project Manager will assist in Customer Service & Support Business Continuity Management Program Office activities:
 
Communicate:

1. Create and maintain the Customer Service and Support program office status reporting mechanisms, including Newsletters, RSS feed information, Executive Scorecard

Project Management:

1.  Maintain the master project plan and Global Customer Service and Support for the Customer Service and Support  program office
2. Assist with garthering business requirements, create Business requirement doc (BRD), work with Dev team to implement requirements for quarterly releases.

Business Analysis:

1.  Assist with business analysis activities around the successful implementation of the Customer Service and Support  program

Additional Activities:

1.  Assist in other areas that arise related to the Customer Service and Support program

SolutionsIQ Agile XP Developer - Java

Richardson, TX

SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for Java developers for an Agile adoption project with a large organization within a household name company.  The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, interest in technical practices, and will have worked in an Agile/Scrum environment. This is an excellent opportunity to learn development Extreme Programming (XP) practices.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, code, test, and document new functionality and fixes for defects in software applications.
• Redesign existing systems for improved performance, reliability, or functionality.
• Create, modify, and validate databases.
• Work with other disciplines (Test, PM, Operations) and partner teams to gather and prioritize requirements.
• Work with the team to estimate new work.

Qualifications:
General

• Experience in the development of complex SQL queries
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent command of the IDE
• Experience with SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) application design and development
• Experience in an Agile/Scrum environment desired
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) desired
• Experience in paired programming desired

Java

• 5+ plus years of Java programming experience
• 5+ years of object-oriented (OO) development and design
• UI development experience with JSP, HTML, and JavaScript
• Experience writing and consuming SOAP and REST services
• Experience with Spring and Hibernate
• Experience with JUnit/TestNG

About SolutionsIQ
 
With more than 30 years of experience, SolutionsIQ has a deep understanding of software delivery excellence.  A leading provider of Agile consulting, certified training, coaching, development, and talent acquisition services, the company is uniquely equipped to help organizations leverage Agile project management and software development methods to deliver solutions more reliably with less risk and at lower cost. SolutionsIQ helps its international client base navigate complex cross-functional changes – increasing Agile competencies at the individual, team, and enterprise level – and gives them the tools and collaboration they need to succeed.

Project Integrator

Contract to FTE position in Redmond, WA
 
Our clinet has an opening for a Project Integrator in its Redmond, WA location. As a Project Integrator, you will work:

• Individually or within the Market Management Systems (MMS) team.
• Performing assigned system integration and testing tasks ,
• Assisting senior engineers in integrating software applications for customers,
• Designing, developing, customizing, configuring, implementing supporting, maintaining and/or administering solutions
• Diagnosing and fixing systems and application problems,
• Assisting in project and system documentation efforts and internal testing

You will work directly with the senior engineers and may have some direct customer interaction. You may need to serve as pre-sales support specialist when needed.
 
Primary Responsibilities:

• Provides technical direction in the system development and has general responsibility for system integration and testing.
• Ensures generation of project and system documentation and that internal testing is completed. Responsible for development of progress reports to the customer. Responsible for documentation on all tasks and development work assigned.
• Works in a self-directed fashion to proactively identify system problems and failures. Pursues solutions to system problems by researching issue and obtaining support from both internal and external resources.
• Coordinates with other internal delivery teams to obtain fixes on a timely basis to support maintaining the project schedule.
• Works directly with the customer to resolve any technical issues that may develop. Keeps customers abreast of technical developments. Tracks resolution to issues and creates detailed documentation of solutions implemented and troubleshooting guides.
• Works with Project Manager to create project schedules, scope changes, and execute project hand-off to customer support.
• Creates detailed software release notes.
• Tracks progress of the other engineers, software development and integration effort and assists in the resolution of any technical issues that may arise.
• And any other duties which may be required.

All candidates must meet the following minimum requirements in order to be considered for this opportunity.  Candidates who exceed minimum qualifications may be considered for a higher level position.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent degree or equivalent work experience.
• 2-3 years software systems development, software integration and/or EMS, Market System, or related experience.
• Good knowledge of Linux, Source Code Management and IT administration
• Good knowledge of Web technology integration, i.e. – Web Servers and Web Services
• Working knowledge of Java, Python, .NET, C++
• Excellent communication, presentation, and project engineering and integration skills. 
• Professional appearance required.
• Requires travel of 10-25% of the time.

The following requirements are desired and will be used to differentiate all candidates who apply for this position.

• Good understanding of highly complex hardware and software configurations in a real-time environment.
• Programming experience and familiarity with database operations.

Key Competencies

• Software Integration Troubleshooting
• Computer Networking – TCP/IP
• Operating Systems – Linux, Windows Desktop and Windows Server
• Candidate must have the ability to “pull it all together”, general problem solving skills
• Excellent English communication skills – both written and oral
  

SolutionsIQ ScrumMaster: Atlanta, GA

Are you passionate about helping software development teams collaborate and deliver? SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for a ScrumMaster to work in the Seattle area, Dallas or Atlanta.

Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban, and we provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers.

Responsibilities:

 Support the product development process:

• Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Maintain process documentation.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles.

Support the Product Owner:

• Assist as needed with backlog maintenance.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.

Support the product team:

• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
• Empower the team to self-organize.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience.
• Must be a Certified ScrumMaster with 5+ years of project management experience and 2 years of ScrumMaster experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
• A thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
• Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential.
• Collaborative approach to driving decisions.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.

Optional:

• Experience in a cellular communications industry

Personal Characteristics:

• Passion to proactively seek ways to improve processes.
• Self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position and ability to constructively resolve problems.
• Creative, resourceful, and innovative at tackling complex challenges.
• Demonstrated aptitude for acquiring knowledge and skills and readily adopting new technologies.
• Respectful, professional interpersonal working style.

As an Agile professional, why would you choose SolutionsIQ?

When we ask our employees this same question, they explain that the best part about working at SolutionsIQ is the opportunity to collaborate daily with an outstanding group of Agile experts from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. From the day we began using Agile practices in 2004, our commitment has steadily grown. Today we use Agile in running the entire company--“we practice what we preach!” We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. We provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers. These software development projects are a laboratory for our Agile consultancy. We encourage our Agile practitioners to participate as students and as thought leaders in the Agile community.

SolutionsIQ ScrumMaster

Bothell, WA

Are you passionate about helping software development teams collaborate and deliver? SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for a ScrumMaster to work in the Seattle area, Dallas or Atlanta.

Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban, and we provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers.

Responsibilities:

 Support the product development process:

• Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Maintain process documentation.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles.

Support the Product Owner:

• Assist as needed with backlog maintenance.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.

Support the product team:

• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
• Empower the team to self-organize.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience.
• Must be a Certified ScrumMaster with 5+ years of project management experience and 2 years of ScrumMaster experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
• A thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
• Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential.
• Collaborative approach to driving decisions.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.

Optional:

• Experience in a cellular communications industry

Personal Characteristics:

• Passion to proactively seek ways to improve processes.
• Self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position and ability to constructively resolve problems.
• Creative, resourceful, and innovative at tackling complex challenges.
• Demonstrated aptitude for acquiring knowledge and skills and readily adopting new technologies.
• Respectful, professional interpersonal working style.

As an Agile professional, why would you choose SolutionsIQ?

When we ask our employees this same question, they explain that the best part about working at SolutionsIQ is the opportunity to collaborate daily with an outstanding group of Agile experts from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. From the day we began using Agile practices in 2004, our commitment has steadily grown. Today we use Agile in running the entire company--“we practice what we preach!” We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. We provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers. These software development projects are a laboratory for our Agile consultancy. We encourage our Agile practitioners to participate as students and as thought leaders in the Agile community.

Software Design Engineer in Test - Social

FTE position in Seattle

Our client, an exciting gaming company in Seattle, is looking for several SDETs.  As an SDET you will be focusing on services, API testing, and automation creation.  This position will work closely with cross-functional counterparts to determine the vision, scope, design, testability and requirements of the features under test.  As part of the QA team you must be able to independently own the testing of technically complex features, be able to identify and understand key client/server scenarios and be able to implement and execute appropriate test scenarios.  It is also essential that as an SDET you have strong technical and coding skills, good trouble shooting and communication skills and passion for customer experience..

Responsibilities:

• Independently carrying out design and implementation of test plans for feature areas
• Reviewing product designs and specifications
• Designing, implementing, and executing robust automated and manual test scenarios for services, web pages, and database queries, and community features.
• Designing and implementing test and automation tools
• Implementing shared test framework components
• Load/Stress test preparation and execution
• System Security review

Required Skills/Personal Requirements:

• 3+ years professional experience in a technical role, with 1 full software product cycle
• Proficiency in PHP, Java Script/Action Script, and at least 1 more scripting language.
• Proficiency in database, social media services, and software design
• Familiarity with SQL
• Proven test aptitude
• Leadership experience is a strong plus
• Familiarity with Flash is a strong plus

Education and/or Certifications:

• BA/BS in Computer Science or an equivalent technical field

Senior Systems Engineer - Linux

FTE position in Seattle, WA

Description:

We have a position open for a Senior Systems Engineer - Linux at a client of ours in Seattle, a hot, on-line gaming company!  The Senior Systems Engineer position will be part of an Online Operations team responsible for the design, implementation, configuration, and administration of production systems in a multi-site high volume web environment.   Daily tasks include, but are not limited to, hardware and software installations, upgrades, system troubleshooting, maintenance, and tasks related to ensuring service availability.  Participate in high level cross team architectural design discussions, contribute to detailed company wide project planning, and provide technical leadership for team.
 
 
Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage complex systems and configurations in a multi-site environment
• Use best practices to ensure designs meet standards for creating a secure system environment
• Lead and/or participate in troubleshooting efforts and implement effective remediation plans
• Provide expertise in performance tuning analysis
• Contribute to disaster recovery readiness  and ensure system data is properly archived
• Represent Online Operations in technical cross team planning and design meetings
• Mentor team members in areas of technology strengths
• Automate tasks to simplify system management and trouble-shooting with scripts and tools
• Work with cross department teams to scope work, produce estimates and to help define deliverables and time lines
• Provide backup support for our network engineer
• Participation in teams 24x7 on-call rotation

Required Skills/Personal Requirements:

• 7+ years experience supporting Linux/UNIX servers
• 5+ years experience supporting internet based applications in a LAMP
• Linux/Apache/MySQL, PHP) environment
• Knowledge of scalable network topologies
• In depth knowledge of core Internet and networking protocols (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, ARP, HTTP, HTTP/S, SSH, BGP, and SMTP), IP communication, packet structure, and load balancing equipment
• Solid experience working in a high volume, mission-critical, ecommerce web environment
• Experience with proxy caching, object caching and Linux load balancing technologies (Varnish, memcached, nginx) very desirable
• Skilled in shell and perl scripting
• Experience with Nagios monitoring and cacti graphing tools
• Familiarity with Xen virtualization technology a plus
• Experience with storage arrays and storage networking technologies
• Ability to grasp, diagnose and analyze complex problems quickly 
• Very good interpersonal communication skills to represent the Online Operation group’s priorities while collaborating in cross department projects
• Proven ability to handle a wide variety of tasks and successfully prioritize work through multi-tasking
• Experience working in a start-up environment preferred
• Familiarity with online gaming preferred
   

Education and/or Certifications:
 
College degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Infrastructure Services Supervisor

Contract to Full Time position in Issaquah, WA 

Position Summary:

The Infrastructure Services Supervisor will plan, organize, and manage staff to deliver a stable and secure computing environment. This includes developing, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing key functional areas, particularly desktop, RF, EMS, Windows server, storage, virtualization, data communications, and telecommunications infrastructure.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee the administration and monitoring of all local and remote network servers, firewalls and associated systems.
• WAN/LAN Network Management: support and configuration of VLAN Technologies, Knowledge of Cisco and other network hardware solutions, Layer 2, Layer 3 management, routing protocols, MPLS, Point to Point circuit, Site to Site VPNs and High Availability Network Systems
• Responsible for corporate backup and restore strategies.
• Oversight of Network user administration; server, and end-user administration including building access control security.
• Monitor network and internet security, network intrusion prevention, vulnerability testing, authentication and encryption.
• Document network systems, network architecture, operations procedures, and software licensing. Monitor and review security audits, performance monitoring, and reporting to ensure optimal business networking solutions
• Maintains Enterprise storage solution delivering 99.999% uptime and ensuring data integrity across multiple sites
• Coach, mentor and develop career paths for team members. 

Requirements:

• Ability to travel on-demand as needed.
• Strong computer operations skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Self-motivated results-oriented individual with strong work ethic.
• Possess excellent organizational, planning and overall time management skills. Effective communication
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple assignments with minimal supervision.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years LAN administration experience in a corporate environment. Including experience with voice/data communications equipment and transmission.
• Experience in a management, supervisory, or lead role within infrastructure teams.
• Cisco & EMC experience strongly desired.
• Minimum of an Associate’s Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

SolutionsIQ ScrumMaster: Seattle Area, Dallas or Atlanta

Responsibilities:

 Support the product development process:

• Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Maintain process documentation.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles.

Support the Product Owner:

• Assist as needed with backlog maintenance.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.

Support the product team:

• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
• Empower the team to self-organize.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience.
• Must be a Certified ScrumMaster with 5+ years of project management experience and 2 years of ScrumMaster experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
• A thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
• Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential.
• Collaborative approach to driving decisions.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.

Optional:

• Experience in a cellular communications industry

Personal Characteristics:

• Passion to proactively seek ways to improve processes.
• Self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position and ability to constructively resolve problems.
• Creative, resourceful, and innovative at tackling complex challenges.
• Demonstrated aptitude for acquiring knowledge and skills and readily adopting new technologies.
• Respectful, professional interpersonal working style.

As an Agile professional, why would you choose SolutionsIQ?

When we ask our employees this same question, they explain that the best part about working at SolutionsIQ is the opportunity to collaborate daily with an outstanding group of Agile experts from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. From the day we began using Agile practices in 2004, our commitment has steadily grown. Today we use Agile in running the entire company--“we practice what we preach!” We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. We provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers. These software development projects are a laboratory for our Agile consultancy. We encourage our Agile practitioners to participate as students and as thought leaders in the Agile community.