Join Our Team

Hello,

I Hope you are doing wonderful. This is Raghav Jha and I work for Soft Sages Technology. Please find the job description below for position of “Database Administrator 4” with one of our top clients and share your updated resume if interested. 

Database Administrator 4

Location: Lansing, Michigan Hybrid: Will need to be onsite from day 1, two days a week. Wednesdays are required to be onsite. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION.

Duration: 6+

Work Authorization: Citizen, GC, GC-EAD, H4-EAD

Experience: 4+

Job Description:

They will need to have experience with formal change control environments.  They also need strong troubleshooting skills. 

This position is for an expected 40 hours per week Monday through Friday with two days on site (Wednesdays are a mandatory onsite day).  There is currently a rotation for on call during the period Saturday morning till Monday morning and this position may be required to assist with this after an initial learning period. Overtime and weekend work is rare and must be scheduled and approved by our customer. This is generally a scheduled project.

Our environment is predominantly Sybase with SQL Server.  We are moving from Sybase to a pure SQL Server in approximately 3 years.  The Sybase environment is 15.7 on Solaris in an X86 hardware environment within our local network.  The SQL Server environment is mixed versions of SQL Server on mixed versions of Windows Server with an upcoming project to update versions.  This environment includes both servers in our network and in Azure.

Our planned goal is to move off Sybase and a project to do this is underway and thus the need for the selected candidate to have some experience with both Sybase and SQL Server.

Our primary goal is to have an additional individual to assist with our Sybase 15.7.  As a result, the appropriate candidate will need to have Unix background running and developing CRON jobs with command line experience. The DBA should be familiar with Sybase ASE 15.7.  This can be at the level of a junior DBA.  The desire is to have a DBA that can assist with tasks, particularly during after hours implementations that the senior DBAs need completed to reduce the overall time required per DBA. This position will also help with other tasks that occur during the week such as weekly data fixes which occur on Thursday and Friday. 

The secondary goal is to take work off the SQL Server DBAs.  This will require the individual to have some experience with Windows Servers and with SQL Server.  Additionally, the person will work with clusters and with Disaster Recovery in our development, test, and production environments.

A strong desired experience is migration from Sybase to SQL Server.

Top Skills & Years of Experience:

- Candidates must have experience with migration from Sybase to SQL Server (2-3 years minimum experience with Sybase and SQL)

- Candidates must be experienced in troubleshooting.

- Unix/Solaris experience

Candidates MUST be able to speak to skills listed on resume.

Clear and concise written and verbal communication is crucial to success and productivity in this role.

Individual tasks related to the duty:

• Research, draft and recommend database standards and policies.

• Coordinate with vendor support to address technical issues that could not be resolved in-house.

• Participate in the planning process to match emerging technologies with future business needs.

• Establish standards and guidelines for database space allocation based on best practices and implementation considerations based on business requirements.

• Calculate disk space requirements for existing and/or new installations and growth based on changing business requirements.

• Measure and/or forecast current capacity, gauge the growth of capacity over time, and factor in the anticipated capacity requirements to determine whether the existing infrastructure can sustain the anticipated workload. 

• Research, analyze, and determine appropriate hardware changes to support future application and database needs. Report recommendations to appropriate DBA specialist and/or technical services.

• Review results of database integrity checks. Resolve identified issues.

• Design appropriate strategy to reorganize database objects to release unused space or repair fragmentation.

• Install database management software in any environment.

• Install database patches and service packs in any environment.

• Review, install, analyze and implement security patches to be applied to remain PCI compliant, vendor compliant, and OES compliant. 

• Designs the security model based on set standards. Create database user accounts and schemas in production environments based on defined and approved forms and procedures.

• Define/design roles.

• Define/design profiles.

• Recommend standard password security policies.

• Implement data encryption (13+design encryption).

• Design, configure, and initiate auditing with appropriate options as needed.

• Create and deploy new database in development and test environments.

• Ensures and validates the integrity and quality of the scripts to be promoted to any of the environments.

• Perform production data file transfers between different systems, across state agencies, federal government, vendors, etc.

• Analyze and resolve database space utilization in production environments.

• Analyze and resolve issues with database integrity in development, test, and production environments.

• Perform troubleshooting of performance issues and provide required solution.

• Analyze databases for optimal performance and investigate poorly performing SQL statements and offending database sessions. Perform database performance tuning by identifying index candidates, updating database statistics, using appropriate optimization techniques, optimizer hints and other methods.

• Document tuning procedures.

• Implement defined initialization parameters, database instance memory structures and physical data layout for optimal performances.

• Monitor database jobs and scheduled processes, perform troubleshooting and provide resolution for any issues with jobs/processes as necessary. Document solution and provide root cause analysis.

Internal Notes

Notes from Client’s end:

Need someone who has migrated from Sybase to SQL, not just someone who has experience with both.

Hybrid: Will need to be onsite from day 1, two days a week. Wednesdays are required to be onsite. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION.

Local candidates (strongly preferred) or non-local (must be willing to relocate/follow the hybrid schedule).

Thanks & Regards,

Raghav Jha

Executive - Recruitment 

SoftSages || WBENC, MBE

20 Mystic Lane, 2nd Floor, Malvern, PA 19355

O: (484)-321-8314 X 192 | D: (425)-279-8462

Website |raghav.jha@softsages.com| Linkedin

Apply here

Hello,

Hope you are doing well.

Test Automation Engineer

Location: 100% on-site in Cedar Rapids, IA – Local Profiles Only

Duration: 6+ Months

Interview Mode: Video

Visa: Any

LinkedIn Required

Designs, develops, and maintain software applications for controlling electromechanical automated testers and systems

The work includes:

• Conducting requirements gathering and analysis to understand the domain of the software problem and/or functionality, the interfaces between hardware and software, and the overall software characteristics
• Using programming, scripting, and/or database languages to write the software code
• Supporting software testing, deployment, maintenance, and evolution activities by correcting programming errors, responding to scope changes, and coding software enhancements
• Applying knowledge of software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering/ STEM
• 2+ years’ experience within test automation
• Proficient programming in LabView, C & Python
• Plus if experience with MATLAB/ Simulink or Java

Thanks & Regards,

Dinesh Awana

Team Lead (Recruitment)

SoftSages || WBENC, MBE

20 Mystic Lane, 2nd Floor, Malvern, PA 19355

O: (484)-321-8314 X 135 | D: 206-536-1027

Website |dinesh.awana@softsages.com| Linkedin

Apply here

Hello,

Hope you are doing well.

Puppet Developer

Only candidates who are local to Columbus, OH will be considered.

*Hybrid position, this person needs to be local and able to come into the office 3 days a week.

I need from you moving forward is a copy of their ID (when you submit them to me),

We just got off a call with the manager, the 3 MAIN things are Puppet Enterprise, Shell Scripting (bash and Powershell) and Linux/Unix & Windows. This is 85% Administration but they need to the development side as well.

3-6 months CTH

Must Have:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support Puppet Enterprise servers and software for internal team use cases

• Work with PE team to offer guidance and expertise in the Puppet development space

• Develop and review code for PE and deploy to production

• Shell scripting in Bash and Powershell

• Strong grasp of Windows and RedHat Linux operating systems

• Abilities to codify changes to Windows and Linux Operating systems

• Openness to learn and incorporate new technologies and patterns

• Strong communicator

• Maintain engineer level and user facing documentation

• Strong command of SDLC patterns

• Ability to manage code with git Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of related experience

Nice to Have:

Preferred Qualifications:

• Maintain and produce code in Python

• Manage pipelines with Jenkins

• Familiarity or expertise with Ruby, Ansible, PowerApps, containerization, ADO Pipelines, Web patterns with HTML/CSS/Javascript, Flask, and/or Restful services.

Summary:

The IS Technical Specialist: III (Senior) modifies existing software/application programs, which are typically more complex in nature, or writes new programs to support user and management needs. Role will require working along-side and as a backup for the Puppet Enterprise (PE) product owner.

Thanks & Regards,

Dinesh Awana

Team Lead (Recruitment)

SoftSages || WBENC, MBE

20 Mystic Lane, 2nd Floor, Malvern, PA 19355

O: (484)-321-8314 X 135 | D: 206-536-1027

Website |dinesh.awana@softsages.com| Linkedin

Apply here

Hello,

Hope you are doing well.

DATA SCIENCE ENGINEER

On-Site, Boston, MA

Contract through 12/27/2024

Client job description

A firm to hire a contract Data Science Engineer contribute to the development and implementation of advanced data solutions using technologies such as AWS Glue, Python, Spark, Snowflake Data Lake, S3, SageMaker, and machine learning (M/L). As a Data Science Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, and optimizing data pipelines, machine learning models, and analytics solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to extract actionable insights from data and drive business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

-Develop and maintain ETL pipelines using AWS Glue for data ingestion, transformation, and integration from various sources.

-Utilize Python and Spark for data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model development.

-Design and implement data lake architecture using Snowflake Data Lake, Snowflake data warehouse and S3 for scalable and efficient storage and processing of structured and unstructured data.

-Leverage SageMaker for model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring in production environments.

-Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand requirements, develop predictive models, and generate actionable insights.

-Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) and data visualization to communicate findings and trends effectively.

-Stay updated with advancements in machine learning algorithms, techniques, and best practices to enhance model performance and accuracy.

-Ensure data quality, integrity, and security throughout the data lifecycle by implementing robust data governance and compliance measures.

Qualifications:

-Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related field.

-Proficiency in AWS services such as Glue, S3, SageMaker, and Snowflake Data Lake with 5-6 years of experience.

-Strong programming skills in Python for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling.

-Experience with distributed computing frameworks like Spark for big data processing.

-Knowledge of machine learning concepts, algorithms, and tools for regression, classification, clustering, and recommendation systems.

-Familiarity with data visualization tools with Tableau for creating meaningful visualizations.

-Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking, and communication skills.

-Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

-Experience deploying machine-learning models in production environments and monitoring their performance.

-Knowledge of MLOps practices, model versioning, and automated model deployment pipelines.

-Familiarity with SQL, NoSQL databases, and data warehousing concepts.

-Strong understanding of cloud computing principles and architectures.

-Certifications in AWS, Python, Spark, or related technologies.

Thanks & Regards,

Dinesh Awana

Team Lead (Recruitment)

SoftSages || WBENC, MBE

20 Mystic Lane, 2nd Floor, Malvern, PA 19355

O: (484)-321-8314 X 135 | D: 206-536-1027

Website |dinesh.awana@softsages.com| Linkedin

Apply here

Hello,

I Hope you are doing wonderful. This is Raghav Jha and I work for Soft Sages Technology. Please find the job description below for position of “Java Architect” with one of our top clients and share your updated resume if interested. 

Java Architect

Location: Augusta, Maine(Fully Onsite Need Local/Nearby)

Duration: 12+

Work Authorization: GC, US Citizen

Experience: 11+

The Senior Architect is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing application infrastructure to provide highly complex, reliable, and scalable applications and systems to meet the organization’s objectives and requirements. Senior Architects are familiar with a variety of the application technologies, environments, concepts, methodologies, practices, and procedures and rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Senior Architects are able to perform a variety of complicated tasks with minimal or no direct supervision. They have proven experience defining systems and application architecture and provide vision, problem anticipation, and problem-solving ability to organization. They consult with the client to define needs or problems, conduct research, perform studies and surveys to obtain data, and analyze problems to advise on or recommend solutions, utilizing knowledge of theory, principles, or technology of specific discipline or field of specialization.

This position is responsible for designing, developing and implementing a new modernized architecture for the BMV modernization project. This position will provide mentoring and guidance to other development staff in this project to refactor our two major applications to REST and based SOA architecture paired with REACT as the modern browser-based UI. This position will implement using secure coding standards and practices.

Required Skills:

Architecture software design - Expert -

Service-oriented architecture development - Expert

JAVA Full Stack development - Expert

Top Skills:

Architecture software design - JAVA Full stack development + Oracle Forms

Front end React experience

Service-oriented architecture development.

Previous State or Government experience

Internal Notes

Need Updated LinkedIn

Location: Augusta, Maine(Fully Onsite Need Local/Nearby)

MENTION CURRENT LOCATION AND LINKEDIN PROFILE IN SUBMITTAL. MUST BE ABLE TO WORK ON SITE IN AUGUSTA MAINE FROM DAY 1. NO REMOTE or HYBRID

Must fill Skill Matrix provided by client:

MUST HAVE: 9+ years Java Development Please list how many:

MUST HAVE: 2+ years of React Please list how many:

MUST HAVE: 5+ years of SOA Please list how many:

MUST HAVE: 5+ years of Oracle Forms Please list how many:

MUST HAVE: RECENT EXPERIENCE in State or Federal Government Please list how many and WHERE:

Thanks & Regards,

Raghav Jha

Executive - Recruitment 

SoftSages || WBENC, MBE

20 Mystic Lane, 2nd Floor, Malvern, PA 19355

O: (484)-321-8314 X 192 | D: (425)-279-8462

Website |raghav.jha@softsages.com| Linkedin

Apply here

Hello,

Hope you are doing well.

System Engineer

Location: New York (onsite)

Experience: 10+ years

Visa -Open for All

SCOPE OF SERVICES

• Assist with integration and testing of a Systems.

• Support system and component owners; provide quality control and oversight.

• Identify the appropriate sequence and scheduling of integration efforts for subsystems.

• Determine the external interfaces requirements necessary to support subsystem integration and testing and arrange to simulate.

• Identify any resources needed to conduct the integration and test functions, including identifying staffing requirements, tools and test equipment, installation support.

• Direct the configuration of equipment and subsystems into the PSAC environments.

• Coordinate, monitor and control all technical activities needed to support integration with the project and program management team

MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered

• 3 years with Oracle ZFS Appliance
• 3 years of Ansible configuration and scripting
• 3 years with Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
• 3 years with Oracle Exalogic
• 3 years with GoAnywhere SFTP server
• 3 years with Centrify on Linux
• 5 years of Solaris administration
• Ability to articulate root cause of complex technical issues and demonstrate the ability to formulate technical options for protecting the production
• Minimum 12 years of experience in a particular technical and/or business application, product, platform, methodology
• Strong Shell scripting (Bash/Ksh, PERL, Python)

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• 3+ years supporting these additional systems
• Oracle Exadata OVM (Oracle Virtual Manager)
• OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager

Thanks & Regards,

Dinesh Awana

Team Lead (Recruitment)

SoftSages || WBENC, MBE

20 Mystic Lane, 2nd Floor, Malvern, PA 19355

O: (484)-321-8314 X 135 | D: 206-536-1027

Website |dinesh.awana@softsages.com| Linkedin

Apply here

Storage Engineer

Dallas, Texas (On-Site)

Job Description

Visa :: USC, GC

Job Description

Our team of engineers builds solutions for the most complex problems. We develop cutting-edge systems and processes that form the core of our key business and enable transactions to move in milliseconds. We provide real-time access to critical deal information and crunch billions of data points each day to inform firm-wide market insights and strategies. Team members have the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology innovation alongside industry leaders and make significant contributions to the field.

The storage engineering team are responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle, including analysis, evaluation, design, testing, integration and sustained engineering of block storage and data protection products for the firm's enterprise-level storage environment.

How you will fulfill your potential

Ability to operate at a global level, communicating and collaborating with the various teams within storage engineering to derive the best solutions for the firm’s enterprise-level storage environment.

Driving storage vendors around product improvement and delivery, as part of the firm’s established product development life cycle process, is a crucial part of this role.

Ability to work with the storage development team, in the creation of development requirements that will lead to an uplift in the areas of automation, performance management as well as inventory management of the firm’s enterprise-level storage environment

Enable cloud journey for our business partners by understanding their storage requirements and providing appropriate solutions in both external and internal cloud.

Basic Qualifications

•  Currently working within an enterprise-level storage environment
• Experienced in Pure Storage FlashArray block storage products and/or in Rubrik r6000 series data protection products
• Experienced in Brocade G series fabric switch products
• Capability to follow and deliver Product Development Life Cycle type documentation as part of the product evaluation and certification process
• Competent in Windows, Linux/UNIX-like operating systems, I/O and network stack tuning and performance profiling
• An understanding how to deliver reliable services out of unreliable components
• Familiar with DevOps tools and version control systems (SVN, GitLab)
• Familiar with SRE principles such as user journeys, SLI/SLO, and synthetic probers
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and trouble shooting skills
• Ability to adapt to new technologies

Preferred Qualifications

 Experience with engineering and operating a hybrid cloud delivery model with focus on data coherency between on-prem and off-prem components.

• Proficiency with PowerShell, Python, Bash or other scripting languages with a focus on testing and sound SDLC practices.
• Familiarity with hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, and Azure)
• Familiarity with hypervisors (ESX)
• Beneficial, but not required, experience in block storage (Dell, Hitachi), file (Netapp, Dell Unity), and/or backup solutions (Networker, DataDomain).
• Familiarity with Elastic Search and Kibana

Internal Notes

Please send active linkedin and Dl/visa copy.

Abhishek Tripathi 

Senior Technical Recruiter

Soft Sages Technology

Phone: O : 484 321 8314 X 153, D : 407 664 1512

E.mail : abhishek@softsages.com  

Apply here

Job Title: .Net Developer

Location: Hybrid Chicago or Houston – Local Only

Duration: 6+ Months

Interview Mode: Video

Job Summary: Program and build software using languages and technologies of the .NET framework. You will create applications from scratch, configure existing systems and provide user support.

Primary Responsibilities:

Participate in requirements analysis

Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture

Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages

Test and deploy applications and systems

Revise, update, refactor and debug code

Improve existing software

Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC)

Serve as an expert on applications and provide technical support.

Shawn Wood

shawn@softsages.com

Apply here

Hello,

Hope you are doing well.

Lead Solution and Implementation Architect, DMS + ERP System, Draper

Duration: 6+ Months contract with possible extension 

Location: Local to Salt Lake City preferred but OK to be local to any established office locations in (Atlanta, Austin, Burlington, Dallas, Irvine, Kansas City, Long Island, Salt Lake City)

Hybrid / Onsite Schedule: 2-3 days per week

Only USC, GC Holders and H1Bs will work.

Job Purpose:

• The Lead Architect for DMS+ ERP system is responsible for architecting, designing, and leading implementation of comprehensive solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements for an automotive dealer ERP system based on a third-party low-code/no-code platform.
• The architect in this position is expected to be 50% hands-on in Technical and 50% hands on in Functional.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participates in the conceptual phases of identifying and solving business problems and initiatives.
• Assists with the development of frameworks, standards, policies, principles, and procedures to guide technology implementation.
• Facilitates technical design reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards of the organization.
• Contributes to functional, logical, and technical architecture for the ERP project and ERP platform initiatives and collaborates with the greater architecture team and the project team on implementation.
• Identifies necessary non-functional requirements (performance, security, operational concerns) and participates in addressing them.
• Recommends options for the resolution/prevention of technical debt and to facilitate rapid development and implementation.
• Helps develop and execute test plans to test functional software and infrastructure and helps drive consistency and automation.
• Recommends improvements to processes and technology that improve the effectiveness of the team.
• Helps drive best practices for software development, coding, performance tuning and integration.
• Contributes to the definition of engineering processes, standards, and technologies / frameworks.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education
• 10+ years+ of working experience on engineering and architecture teams.
• Experience as a Technical Lead on large-scale software implementations with design and hands-on development.
• Experience in technology development and delivery for SAAS applications.
• Experience with AWS or similar Cloud based environment.
• Experience in multi-tier enterprise architecture environments.
• Experience designing and developing enterprise integrations.
• Experience with relevant database technologies.
• Some experience with low-code/no-code architecture
• Experience documenting and presenting architectural designs and solutions to the team.
• Experience working across multiple teams to influence consistent patterns.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with teams across multiple time zones.
• In-person presence in the office per company policies and some amount of travel as needed.

Thanks & Regards,

Dinesh Awana

Team Lead (Recruitment)

SoftSages || WBENC, MBE

20 Mystic Lane, 2nd Floor, Malvern, PA 19355

O: (484)-321-8314 X 135 | D: 206-536-1027

Website |dinesh.awana@softsages.com| Linkedin

Apply here