Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Reed Business - Systems Engineer-Unix, Sr. Developer, Developer IV, Enterprise Applications Engineer

[rmiug-jobs] Digest Number 4355

Highland Ranch, CO-Systems Engineer-Unix
Posted by: "Bostrom, Trina M (RBI-US)"
trina.bostrom@reedbusiness.com
Date: Thu Feb 7, 2008 2:37 pm ((PST))

To apply, please visit our website:

www.reedbusiness.com and click on
Requisition #302930

DO NOT SEND YOUR RESUME THROUGH E-MAIL! Resumes sent through e-mail
will not be considered!

Job Title: Systems Engineer-UNIX

Company Profile:

Reed Business Information (formerly Cahners Business Information) is a
leading provider of critical information and marketing solutions to
business professionals in targeted industry sectors. Our market-leading
properties include more than 100 business-to-business publications,
over
75 Web sites, and a range of services, including Web development,
custom
publishing, research, business lists, and industry events.

Reed Business Information is a member of Reed Elsevier Group plc [NYSE:
ENL; NYSE: RUK], our parent company, whose principal activities are in
North America and Europe, employing over 35,000 people. The key
objective of Reed Elsevier is to be the indispensable source of
information-driven services and solutions to its target customers,
through the delivery of highly valued and demonstrably superior and
flexible solutions, increasingly via the Internet. Our global exposure,
along with our diversified product portfolio form a diversified
business.

Reed Business Information offers an outstanding compensation package
along with generous vacation, sick and holiday pay. For qualified
positions, we also offer comprehensive health benefits including
medical, dental and life insurance as well as retirement benefits,
including a 401(k) program and an Employee Pension Plan.

Reed Business Information is committed to workforce diversity.
Qualified
applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race,
color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or national origin. We invite
all applicants to confidentially self-identify when applying. The
Company complies with applicable laws governing non-discrimination by
state and locale.

To learn more about us visit us at www.reedbusiness.com


Job Description:
The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for design, installation and
maintenance of server and storage hardware, operating systems, and
related software, with a primary focus upon internet services in a
24x7x365 hosting environment.

This position will work with customer facing web site infrastructure
and
requires outstanding technical, analytical, organizational and
interpersonal skills that will be used while researching and
implementing enterprise technologies and processes, working projects
with infrastructure and development personnel, mentoring staff and
making the sure IT meets the needs of the business.

Responsibilities and Qualifications:
Responsibilities include:
* Installation, configuration management, and maintenance of server
operating systems, and related utilities
* Design, install and configure application software
* Design, install, configure and support load balancing as required
* Design, install, configure and support HA environments as required
* Develop and provide technical coaching and mentoring to others when
appropriate
* Lead or participate in enterprise projects
* Research, evaluates, and recommends server operating systems, related
utilities, hardware, back-office systems or new technologies

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have:
* A four-year technical degree or the equivalent in work experience
* A minimum of 8 years prior related experience
* Strong shell and PERL scripting abilities
* On-call support for 24x7 availability
* Advanced technical skills
* Operating system - Red Hat LINUX required, knowledge of Windows
Server
helpful.
* Web infrastructure - Experience with LAMP, Apache 1.x, 2.x, IIS
knowledge helpful. Exposure to JBoss, ATG or other middleware helpful
* Networking - SSH, NFS, LDAP, DNS, SMTP, Load Balancing
* Advanced organizational skills
* Solid interpersonal skills
* Excellent written and oral communication
* Advanced problem solving skills
* Ability to lead projects with corporate-wide impact

To apply, please visit our website:

www.reedbusiness.com and click on
Requisition #302930

DO NOT SEND YOUR RESUME THROUGH E-MAIL! Resumes sent through e-mail
will not be considered!

Job Title: Systems Engineer-UNIX

________________________________________________________________________

20a. Highlands Ranch, CO-Sr. Developer
Posted by: "Bostrom, Trina M (RBI-US)"
trina.bostrom@reedbusiness.com
Date: Thu Feb 7, 2008 2:37 pm ((PST))

To apply, please visit our website:

www.reedbusiness.com and click on
Requisition #302975

DO NOT SEND YOUR RESUME THROUGH E-MAIL! Resumes sent through e-mail
will not be considered!

Job Title: Sr. Developer

Company Profile:
Reed Business Information (formerly Cahners Business Information) is a
leading provider of critical information and marketing solutions to
business professionals in targeted industry sectors. Our market-leading
properties include more than 100 business-to-business publications,
over
75 Web sites, and a range of services, including Web development,
custom
publishing, research, business lists, and industry events.

Reed Business Information is a member of Reed Elsevier Group plc [NYSE:
ENL; NYSE: RUK], our parent company, whose principal activities are in
North America and Europe, employing over 35,000 people. The key
objective of Reed Elsevier is to be the indispensable source of
information-driven services and solutions to its target customers,
through the delivery of highly valued and demonstrably superior and
flexible solutions, increasingly via the Internet. Our global exposure,
along with our diversified product portfolio form a diversified
business.

Reed Business Information offers an outstanding compensation package
along with generous vacation, sick and holiday pay. For qualified
positions, we also offer comprehensive health benefits including
medical, dental and life insurance as well as retirement benefits,
including a 401(k) program and an Employee Pension Plan.

Reed Business Information is committed to workforce diversity.
Qualified
applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race,
color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or national origin. We invite
all applicants to confidentially self-identify when applying. The
Company complies with applicable laws governing non-discrimination by
state and locale.

To learn more about us visit us at www.reedbusiness.com


Job Description:
This position can be located in either Highlands Ranch, CO or Waltham,
MA.

Responsibilities:
- Work in a team to develop and implement
e-Product Business Intelligence strategy for a large publishing company

- Focus will be on integrating web analytics and other online activity
information with cost and revenue information to produce a complete and
actionable picture of the business

- Work with business and technical staff to understand needs and
document business requirements

- Execute data analysis, data mart architecture, ETL, QA, analytics and
reporting

- Develop and implement ETL strategies using Informatica and other
products

- Operating Systems -Linux, Windows NT

- Database - Oracle, SQL Server 2005

- Develop and maintain functional and technical documentation

- Provide 24-hour support for business applications on rotational basis

Qualifications:


- 3-5 years development experience in data warehouse design and
construction
- 8-12 years of IT experience
- The candidate should also be familiar with web site structure,
traffic
reporting, internet business models and technologies and experienced in
Data Warehouse methodology and Dimensional Modeling
- Experience with the web as both a data source and a way of delivering
BI information
- Understanding of web site design concepts and structure
- Extensive experience with Oracle, Informatica or other major ETL
system, or other major BI platform
- Knowledge of Web Analytics platforms preferred (NetInsight, Omniture,
Webtrends, etc.)
- Knowledge of statistics and the visual presentation of quantitative
data

Additional desired experience:
- Knowledge of Cognos Powerplay and Reportnet, SQL Server and Unica
NetInsight a plus
- Marketing, Media or e-Business experience a plus
- Experience with XML
- Analytical design and problem solving skills with excellent oral and
written communication skills
- Time management, project management, ability to deliver in an
environment of competing priorities and changing project scope
- Proficiency with MS office, Windows and Project planning software
- Ability to think in the big picture and tie it to day to day work
- Bachelor's degree (preferably in Computer Science or MIS/CIS).
Relevant experience may be a substitute for education.

To apply, please visit our website:

www.reedbusiness.com and click on
Requisition #302975

DO NOT SEND YOUR RESUME THROUGH E-MAIL! Resumes sent through e-mail
will not be considered!

________________________________________________________________________

21a. Highlands Ranch, CO-Developer IV
Posted by: "Bostrom, Trina M (RBI-US)"
trina.bostrom@reedbusiness.com
Date: Thu Feb 7, 2008 2:37 pm ((PST))

To apply, please visit our website:

www.reedbusiness.com and click on
Requisition #302860

DO NOT SEND YOUR RESUME THROUGH E-MAIL! Resumes sent through e-mail
will not be considered!

Job Title: Developer IV

Company Profile:
Reed Business Information (formerly Cahners Business Information) is a
leading provider of critical information and marketing solutions to
business professionals in targeted industry sectors. Our market-leading
properties include more than 100 business-to-business publications,
over
75 Web sites, and a range of services, including Web development,
custom
publishing, research, business lists, and industry events.

Reed Business Information is a member of Reed Elsevier Group plc [NYSE:
ENL; NYSE: RUK], our parent company, whose principal activities are in
North America and Europe, employing over 35,000 people. The key
objective of Reed Elsevier is to be the indispensable source of
information-driven services and solutions to its target customers,
through the delivery of highly valued and demonstrably superior and
flexible solutions, increasingly via the Internet. Our global exposure,
along with our diversified product portfolio form a diversified
business.

Reed Business Information offers an outstanding compensation package
along with generous vacation, sick and holiday pay. For qualified
positions, we also offer comprehensive health benefits including
medical, dental and life insurance as well as retirement benefits,
including a 401(k) program and an Employee Pension Plan.

Reed Business Information is committed to workforce diversity.
Qualified
applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race,
color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or national origin. We invite
all applicants to confidentially self-identify when applying. The
Company complies with applicable laws governing non-discrimination by
state and locale.

To learn more about us visit us at www.reedbusiness.com


Job Description:
As a Developer you will design, develop, implement and maintain custom
software applications in multiple technology disciplines -
*Operating Systems - Windows NT , LINUX,
*Database - MS SQL, Oracle
*Application Servers - IIS, JBOSS
*Programming Languages - VB.Net, ASP.Net, C#.Net, AJAX, Java

*Application Frameworks - MS.Net 2.0, Struts
*Develops projects in accordance to Global System Development Life
Cycle
- including requirement gathering, design, construction, testing, and
implementation.
*Develop and maintain functional and technical documentation.
*Provide 24-hour support for business applications.

Qualifications:

Position requires:
*Five years of application programming development experience in design
and construction in OO environments.
*Current expertise with IIS and MS SQL.
*Current expertise in .Net framework
-Current expertise with XML
-Current experience with vendor management for software development and
delivery
*Current expertise with object oriented design methodology.
-Experience in optimizing search and specifically use of FAST Search
products
*Analytical design and problem solving skills with excellent oral and
written communication skill.
*Proficiency with MS office, Windows and Project planning software.

To apply, please visit our website:

www.reedbusiness.com and click on
Requisition #302860

DO NOT SEND YOUR RESUME THROUGH E-MAIL! Resumes sent through e-mail
will not be considered!

________________________________________________________________________

22. Highlands Ranch, CO-Enterprise Applications Engineer
Posted by: "Bostrom, Trina M (RBI-US)"
trina.bostrom@reedbusiness.com
Date: Thu Feb 7, 2008 2:38 pm ((PST))

To apply, please visit our website:

www.reedbusiness.com and click on
Requisition #302986

DO NOT SEND YOUR RESUME THROUGH E-MAIL! Resumes sent through e-mail
will not be considered!

Job Title: Enterprise Applications Engineer

Company Profile:

Reed Business Information (formerly Cahners Business Information) is a
leading provider of critical information and marketing solutions to
business professionals in targeted industry sectors. Our market-leading
properties include more than 100 business-to-business publications,
over
75 Web sites, and a range of services, including Web development,
custom
publishing, research, business lists, and industry events.

Reed Business Information is a member of Reed Elsevier Group plc [NYSE:
ENL; NYSE: RUK], our parent company, whose principal activities are in
North America and Europe, employing over 35,000 people. The key
objective of Reed Elsevier is to be the indispensable source of
information-driven services and solutions to its target customers,
through the delivery of highly valued and demonstrably superior and
flexible solutions, increasingly via the Internet. Our global exposure,
along with our diversified product portfolio form a diversified
business.

Reed Business Information offers an outstanding compensation package
along with generous vacation, sick and holiday pay. For qualified
positions, we also offer comprehensive health benefits including
medical, dental and life insurance as well as retirement benefits,
including a 401(k) program and an Employee Pension Plan.

Reed Business Information is committed to workforce diversity.
Qualified
applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race,
color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or national origin. We invite
all applicants to confidentially self-identify when applying. The
Company complies with applicable laws governing non-discrimination by
state and locale.

To learn more about us visit us at www.reedbusiness.com


Job Description:
The enterprise applications administrator position will be responsible
for the support, and administration of key business-critical
applications in a 24/7/365 environment. This position is operational
with a primary focus being on the applications availability,
performance, how the application relates to other software on the
system
and in the environment, configuration management, monitoring, and
client
experience. The position will entail troubleshooting across many layers
of the network, database if applicable, and applications pulling
together many groups to assist in issue resolution.
The position will work with different teams to design and test the
different applications. The environment is fast paced and challenging.
The ideal candidate will have a strong willingness to take on new
challenges and will welcome the opportunity to gain deep proficiency
with the supported technologies and application domains. He or She must
be able to correlate issues to the lowest common denominator to solve
problems quickly and completely.

Job Responsibilities and Qualifications:
Key Responsibilities
* Perform day-to-day high level application administration to include:
install/configure application and or agents, set up users, performance
tune, upgrade, patch, reporting, provisioning, etc)
* Analyze client needs and gather business requirements
* Train others on the various supported applications from a basic end
user to advanced technical perspective
* Provide metrics and status reports
* Assist in developing standards, procedures and policies for testing,
deployment, management and support of applications
* Provide 24x7 support of the application environment (part of the
on-call rotation); Operational focus
* Provide support to customers, development and other IT teams
* Scripting and tool work to improve team operations, monitoring and
system availability
* Provide feedback to vendors on application improvements
* Liaison among users, technical support and development teams

Experience and Skills
* B.S. in related field or equivalent professional work experience
* Strong technical and analytical background, problem solving skills
and
ability to work well in a fast paced environment
* Experience in supporting systems in a 24x7 production environment
* Excellent interpersonal skills (verbal and written)
* Knowledgeable and skilled in Windows and UNIX/Linux based Operating
Systems
* Experience managing multiple projects with diverse requirements and
competing priorities
* Client and server application installation and configuration
experience
* Good understanding of web interface, server client, and thin client
product solutions
* Application tuning knowledge, capacity concepts, benchmarking,
trending, and monitoring
* Knowledge of Oracle and or MSSQL server databases
* Knowledge of all defined supported applications (Appworx, NetInsight,
Memetrics, BMC Service Desk Express, etc.) or the desire and ability to
quickly assimilate this knowledge
* Scripting experience in a mainstream language (Perl, PHP, Python,
shell)

Additional Qualifications a plus:
* Web application experience (HTML, Java Script, Tomcat, Websphere,
Weblogic, JBoss, etc)
* Knowledge of networks, firewalls, switches, load balancers
* Experience in XML
* Knowledge of WAN/LAN Topologies, systems and applications management
* Knowledge of VMWare ESX Server technologies

To apply, please visit our website:

www.reedbusiness.com and click on
Requisition #302986

DO NOT SEND YOUR RESUME THROUGH E-MAIL! Resumes sent through e-mail
will not be considered!