Job Vacancies at GVA Partners

An exciting opportunity exists for a skilled IT Strategy Analyst to join a dynamic team. The successful candidate will bring a strong analytical and structured approach to problem solving to support execution on the exciting pipeline of opportunities. The strategy analyst will perform various functions, which primarily involves utilizing data to provide support for strategy formulation, business development, and forecasting. This individual will gather, review, test data and apply many measures to provide solutions to critical business issues and decisions.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Support on developing & keeping key dashboards, databases and systems live and up to date.
• Support on the prioritization and execution of key activities and projects within the organisation.
• Ensure key actions from the Portfolio reviews and strategic plan are captured and completed in a timely manner.
• Support in monitoring the overall portfolio performance between review sessions, and make recommendations and improvements to support execution.
• As required, support other strategic activities within the organization including external innovation, licensing.
• Build and maintain a strong viewpoint on external market dynamics supporting in updating the LT on key trends, announcements and general market intelligence.
• Provide, communicate, and implement strategy to address competition, changes in customer preference, and improvements in technology and marketing tools
• Provide further insight into the firms overall strategy by identifying critical questions performing ad-hoc analyses.
• Provide leadership to teams and cross-functional teams on the execution of an implementation, work plan, or other strategic initiative.
• Provide actionable insights and modeling to improve strategy and performance.
• Develop dashboards, executive summaries, and weekly/monthly reports to measure against KPIs and market dynamics.
• Use a professional presentation style to communicate and creates effective visuals to convey data/info in easily digestible manner with clear takeaways.
• Prepare, organize, and display data/results to convey targeted messages for each audience.

SKILLS ANS QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, Information Technology or related field.
• At least 5 years’ experience working as an IT Strategy Analyst.
• Experience with SQL and R Language software and systems.
• Experience with frameworks, statistics, and algorithm design.
• Comfortable utilizing business case development and strategic thinking to solve problems.
• Strong PowerPoint presentation skills are required.
• Previous consulting experience is mandatory.

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Job Description

Our client is seeking to hire knowledgeable End User Support Engineers at mid and senior levels.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supervising End User Support Engineers and their day to day activities and performance.
• Responsible in mentoring junior End User Support Engineers.
• Responsible for managing incident, request, problem, IMAC and escalation management.
• To provide support in operations in the domain of End User Support.
• Managing incident, request, problem & IMAC
• Support the following technologies: Windows 10, MS Office, Basic LAN /WAN Issues, Wi-Fi Configuration, Application Software Configuration, VOIP Phone, Software installations
• Providing installation, upgrade, configuration, and advanced troubleshooting on computers, peripherals, and communication devices and peripherals.
• Install, support and maintain PC applications in a Windows 10 environment
• Attend and troubleshoot end user tickets/incidents
• Escalate to respective resolver group
• Coordinate between users and resolver groups on P1,P2 and P3 incidents

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering and any other related discipline
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a technical support environment
• Possession of strong interpersonal skills
• Advanced troubleshooting skills
• Problem solving skills

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Job Description

Our client is seeking to hire highly skilled SQL Database Managers (5) to join a dynamic team.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing support of SQL Infrastructure
• Installation and configuration of SQL Server in single and cluster mode.
• Primarily role is supporting the production and development SQL 2008/2012 databases
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot SQL on Windows Servers
• Configuring and maintaining Database replication / standby / clusters.
• Creation of maintenance plans and jobs for update stats, defragmentation
• Verify that Server has enough resources for acceptable performance
• Review contention for CPU, memory, network, and disk resources
• Review fragmentation by investigating row chaining and other areas of fragmentation
• Capture Performance Statistics using performance monitors
• Define Backup policy and retention policy for complete/differential/transaction backup
• Conduct backup, restoration drills for backup verification in different scenarios.
• Hands on experience and excellent knowledge of DB administration, License Management, Version upgrades and migrations
• Execution of backup/recovery procedures
• Creation and Maintenance of Database Instances & Performance fine tuning
• Responsible for driving all P1, P2, incidents, change requests and OEM/ vendor management for the tower
• Responsible for Technology refresh in respective domain

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT related discipline
• Minimum of 8 years database management experience
• Good experience in Replication, Log Shipping, Clustering
• Experience in Database patch installation, clean up, cloning, DB Job scheduling

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Job Description

Our client is seeking to hire highly skilled Storage & Backup Engineers (13) to join the team that designs, configures, develops, integrates, tests, implements, documents, and supports the storage infrastructure ecosystem.

Requirements:

• Administration of Storage & Backup environment
• Monitor Storage & Backup service availability and performance thresholds
• Backup Administration (EMC Networker, Data domain, Avamar, DPA)
• Ensure all the Servers, Database and Data is backed up as per policy guidelines
• Knowledge of upgrading HBA firmware and Drivers on UNIX and Windows Servers
• Experience in troubleshooting HBA issues on Windows and Unix Operating systems
• Ensure backup schedules are completed successfully for all the systems
• Report and action on failed backup schedule.
• Propose and prepare restoration calendar, and do periodic restoration drills for the following but limited to Exchange, Database, Applications, OS, Fileserver, SAN etc.
• Configure backup schedule for any servers deployed in both Projects and Production.
• Optimize tape utilization by not affecting the backup functionality.
• Manage daily offsite tape movement.
• Perform periodic audit on offsite location.
• Propose and prepare effective backup standard operating work instructions and policy
• Execution of backup/recovery procedures
• Responsible for Technology refresh in respective domain

Responsibilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or any related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role
• Expertise on EMC Power Max, VMAX, VNX, ECS HP 3par, Data domain, Replication, Data domain
• Experience in setting up backup media retentions, LUN creation, storage space management
• In depth knowledge of analysis for storage backend problems & troubleshooting Brocade Switches

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Job Description

Our client is seeking to hire skilled UNIX/LINUX Managers (10) to monitor and manage Linux users and computers within a network.

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Red hat Linux, Solaris, Oracle Linux environment.
• Installation, Configuration & Troubleshooting of Red hat Linux, Solaris, Oracle Linux
• Responsible for Technology refresh in respective domain
• Perform user account management such as user creation, user deletion, modification etc.
• Manage and create users groups as per Policies.
• Monitor Server concurrent logins and connections for the Portal environment.
• Monitor disk space, processor utilization, network utilization for the Portal environment.
• Provide remote support for operating system installation and configuration when required.
• Perform regular backup activities on the environment as per the policies and procedures.
• Work with principal vendors when issues arise to determine the root cause of problems to provide work around or permanent fix.
• Perform Operating System management and administration including patch updates, fine-tuning, access management, etc.
• Work with security team to apply fixes, security policies, help with investigations and hardening systems.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or information technology
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in UNIX/LINUX environment
• Experience in virtualization technologies
• Strong knowledge of clustering and troubleshooting