Career and Contract Opportunities with Progent Work for Talented Network Engineers, Helpdesk Service Technicians, Security Experts, and Application Developers
Among America's premiere network consulting firms for small and midsize business networks, Progent maintains a full-time staff of certified service experts who concentrate on core IT areas including:
Microsoft Windows technology
Cisco Integrated Services Routers, switches, firewalls, plus VoIP and Virtual Private Network solutions
Network security analysis
Sophisticated system architecture
Remote IT support and network management
Progent's Experts Team, which includes independent consultants qualified and coordinated by Progent, provides exceptionally specialized skills in a broad range of key business applications and network technologies such as:
Apple OS networking and programs
Consulting for Linux-powered, UNIX, and Sun environments
Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM expertise
Mission-critical and vertical application support
CIO, business analyst, and project logistics services
Custom applications design and deployment
Web, eCommerce, Electronic Data Interchange, and customer portal development and deployment
DBM management and performance consulting
Management information consulting
Telecom systems consulting
Creative structures for attracting customers, providing support, establishing a dynamic company culture, and providing highly competitive compensation have allowed us to become among the fastest growing and best respected Microsoft Gold Partners consulting companies in the United States and to build an international organization for delivering remote network service. If you are an accredited computer technician or network consultant with a drive for a customer success and strong communication skills, you should consider Progent a chance for enhancing your technical skills, living a more independent career, and achieving economic security.
Find Out More Information Concerning Jobs with Progent
Follow these links to learn additional information concerning Progent's job opportunities, company philosophy, work environment, compensation structure, and benefits:
Consulting Jobs at Progent
We are hiring a variety of on-staff employees such as motivated Microsoft MCSE and MCP network consultants; system experts with Cisco CCIE, CCNP, or CCNA credentials; and consultants for advanced system architecture with backgrounds in mobile access, wireless networking, non-stop environments, disaster recovery planning, data preservation, and server virtualization. We are also hiring desktop support experts, off-site service professionals, and CISSP, CISM, or CISA certified security professionals. Progent is also looking for experienced managers and administrators who can operate efficiently in our high-growth, virtual office environment. Find out additional information about staff professional services jobs at Progent by going to Full-time Work at Progent.
Contracting Opportunities at Progent
Progent contracts independent professionals who have proven knowledge and field experience in crucial information technology areas outside our primary technical focus. Progent's Experts Group hires freelance consultants who can provide consulting and programming support for line-of-business applications that include Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management; have deep knowledge of popular platforms such as Linux, Apple OS, or Solaris, or offer expert skills in areas such as telecommunications, web site development, EDI, web commerce, or dbm programming. Independent contractors qualified by us cooperate with our in-house professionals to deliver comprehensive IT services for small and midsize company networks. To find out additional details about contracting work with Progent's Experts Consulting Group, refer to Freelance Jobs at Progent.
Ways That We Are Different
We have managed to recruit the top professional talent by being unique. Providing a powerful blend of entrepreneurial drive, commitment to customer satisfaction, utilization of state-of-the-art technical tools, plus an independent business model that accommodates life-style options for our team members, Progent offers a stimulating culture for select consultants who posses a drive for quickly enhancing their technical skills to create concrete solutions for a range of organizations and network environments. Find out more information about reasons we are different by going to How Progent Is Unique.
Progent's Virtual Office Work Environment
Progent's virtual office network uses advanced technologies that enable off-site access, wireless communication, easy access to Progent's support databases, and instant collaboration with talented colleagues to help you to handle business-critical network problems. Our virtual office model allows consultants to focus on providing service rather than fighting traffic and helps you nurture successful client relationships by enabling you to come up with quick, viable, and cost-effective solutions. To learn more details concerning Progent's virtual office infrastructure, see Progent virtual Office Infrastructure.
Compensation and Benefit Packages
Progent's compensation model is determined by revenue sharing. What you earn is wholly based on what you generate. You have the option of concentrating on quality of life and choosing to consult at an easy pace, using our versatile schedule to make time for individual pursuits, or you can take advantage of the chance to earn considerable money by persistent work and long hours. Progent also offers complete family health coverage as well as many other benefits. Learn more details about Progent's compensation and benefit programs by going to Progent Compensation and Benefits.
Jobs at Progent Frequently Asked Questions
To see answers to frequent enquiries about becoming a consultant at Progent, see Working with Progent FAQs.
Below is a description of some current job openings:
Job Code
Job Description
A09
Operations Administrator Job
Progent is looking for a talented individual for the work-at-home role of Operations Administrator to help the Director of Operations with the daily management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in handling A/P and asset management responsibilities for a small, rapidly expanding company.
Information Technology Hiring Manager Position
Progent is looking for an experienced administrator responsible for hiring consultants to join Progent's group of support engineers who offer IT outsourcing and computer support assistance to customers globally.
Technical Response Center Coordinator Position
Progent has a position for a talented individual for the job of Technical Response Center (TRC) Coordinator working with an innovative technical services business in a dynamic environment. The TRC Coordinator is to be the initial point of contact for incoming Technical Response Center and Main number phone calls and must present a professional and sympathetic attitude in the initiation of Urgent Services.
Customer Services Administrative Assistant Job
The Customer Services Administrative Assistant assists the Director of Customer Services in the routine operations of Progent’s Customer Care initiatives, which includes duties such as First Service follow up interviews. The Customer Services Administrative Assistant provides a variety of administrative duties for the Director of Customer Services to make sure Progent delivers the best possible client service.
Market Development Manager Jobs
The Business Development Representative is a top level sales manager charged with selling Progent's wide range of IT outsourcing and consulting services and functioning as the primary customer interface. The Business Development Representative is a member of the management team, working in sync with the CEO and Directors and Managers to make sure that corporate targets are accomplished and that the highest level of services are delivered to Progent's customers.
Senior IT Consulting Expert, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Job
Progent is seeking a proven, MCSE support engineer to join Progent's internal team of network professionals. Applicant must have communication skills as well as technical expertise and must be success oriented.
Desktop Engineer Positions
Progent is looking for a Desktop Support Expert to help Progent clients to maintain all users of desktop and notebook PCs powered by Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Vista, and Windows XP platforms. Work cooperatively with customer's management or IT organization or under the direction of a Progent Senior Consultant to support the client’s end users.
Senior Remote Support Engineer Job
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Support Specialist to work with a variety of Progent's clients to maintain and support information networks off-site, utilizing sophisticated technology including Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 and the MS .NET product family.
Senior Remote Network Support Engineer Job in Australia
Progent is seeking a Senior Online Support Expert in Australia to assist a variety of international clients to maintain and service IT systems via telephone or online connections.
Senior Cisco Consultant Jobs
Progent is looking for a Senior Cisco Consultant with Cisco CCIE or CCNP credentials to join Progent's team of professionals to assist clients to design, integrate, manage, and repair small business networks based on Cisco products.
Certified Security Engineer Job
Progent is looking for a Certified Security Consultant with CISSP, CISM, or CISA or equivalent security credentials to work with Progent's team of professionals to offer small businesses comprehensive security services including network security evaluation, penetration testing, security strategy, network monitoring, security modeling, access management systems expertise, operations security, and business continuity planning.
If you want to ask about any opening shown above, you should e-mail your resume to jobs@progent.com. Please copy the job codes of the positions that interest you.
Additional Facts Concerning Opportunities with Us
Staff Work for Network Engineers, Desktop Service Specialists, Security Experts, and Online Support Technicians Progent is seeking to find fulltime, results-oriented Microsoft certified consultants with Microsoft MCSE or MCSA credentials; Cisco accredited system engineers who have Cisco CCIE credentials; security consultants who have CISM or comparable security certification; and high-end network architecture consultants with experience in mobile access, wireless connectivity, fault tolerance, business continuity, data preservation, and VMware. Progent also seeks professionals who can join our staff of desktop service technicians and off-site troubleshooting professionals. Also, Progent is seeking talented administrators who can perform effectively in our high-growth, virtual office culture.
By supporting a team of talented and dedicated professionals, providing attentive client services, and offering a strong results-focused fee model, Progent has managed to increase our customer base dramatically while delivering consulting support to numerous businesses in the San Francisco area and across the U.S.. An advanced virtual office environment, a shared knowledge base, and a team strategy for problem resolution have helped Progent to retain a skilled consulting team and a satisfied customer list.
For an information technology consultant with technical support expertise, joining Progent or helping our clients will enhance your knowledge through cooperation with Progent's group of highly supportive, talented consultants. Progent's focus on providing information technology expertise and computer support to small and midsize companies will offer you the chance to work intimately with key players and add significantly to the success of dynamic companies.
We are hiring consultants who can show recognized credentials in their special focus. For example, if you are a Microsoft consultant, you should have your Microsoft MCSE credential. In the case of Cisco consultants, show us your Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional certificate. For network security, you should show you CISSP, CISA, CISM, or one of the other leading security certifications. Naturally, we are aware of "paper experts". Nevertheless, the fact that a certificate does not ensure expertise is no justification for not having one. If you know your stuff, then most of these tests should pose no great difficulty. The point is that if you are a professional, then customers expect credentials. Progent can broadcast your skills, but you must provide a baseline of certifications for Progent to market. In case you are adamantly opposed to the concept of credentials, Progent can understand and honor your opinion, but you are probably not a good candidate.
Contract Work for Qualified Application Specialists for Windows, Mac, Linux/UNIX, and Sun Solaris Technology For over 20 years, Progent's computer professionals have offered affordable and effective computer support expertise for small businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the U.S.. An advanced virtual office environment, a common technical knowledge base, and a collaborative approach to problem resolution have helped us to build a strong staff and dramatically expand a loyal customer base.
The Experts Team is our way to offer customers the services of specialized computer support professionals who have advanced knowledge and field background in key technologies beyond our core focus in network support and security. Experts Team members are typically freelance contractors and occasionally "moonlighters" who are carefully qualified by Progent to work closely with Progent's staff consultants to provide comprehensive, world-class information technology services to small businesses. We are continually expanding our Experts Team in order to meet the special needs of our clients.
Progent's Experts Group currently offers consulting in these areas:
Macintosh integration and applications
Support for Linux-based, UNIX-based, and Sun systems
Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM customization
Mission-critical and specialized application support
Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project logistics services
Special applications design and integration
Web, electronic business, EDI, and customer information portal design and integration
DBM support and performance consulting
Business information expertise
Telecommunications architecture support
Benefits of becoming a member of Progent's Experts Group include:
By associating with us, you get to benefit from the momentum of Progent's explosive expansion and top-notch recognition in the market. By maintaining a group of talented and committed consultants, offering excellent client care, and following a strong, value-focused billing structure, Progent has multiplied our clientele over the last few years and Progent currently provides consulting services to hundreds of businesses in California and throughout the United States.
Our experienced marketing team takes care of all aspects of marketing your skills and technical knowledge into our quickly growing client base, so you spend less time finding customers and extra time generating money.
We will assist in relationship building between you and our core team of experienced Microsoft and Cisco qualified engineers who act as the conduit to the key executives among Progent's customers.
Our sales and administration groups will manage the complete sales and engagement process, from opportunity generation, job qualification, customer needs description, capabilities matching, job analysis proposal generation, agreement negotiation and generation. Your entire focus stays with delivering top-quality consulting service.
We will provide you access to our advanced virtual office environment, offering professional conference sites in Northern California, and data and voice access anywhere in the U.S.
You will have the benefit of Progent's vast knowledge base, best practices procedures, abundance of professional documents, and the shared experience from one of Northern California's largest independent groups of experienced network professionals.
Progent will pass on special benefits from top vendors such as Microsoft and Cisco, including no-cost orlow-cost training classes, web connections to special vendor troubleshooting tools and product maintenance resources, and downloadable internal use programs for training and/or demonstration purposes.
You will have the security of backup coverage from Progent's staff consultants and other Expert Team members in the event you are unavailable to respond to client demands due to work schedule conflicts, vacation, sickness, or training.
As a 1099 subcontractor to Progent, you get simplified, risk-free invoicing and consistent payment schedules. In addition, Progent is responsible for receivables collection
There is no fee to become part of our Experts Group, but we do have strict qualifications for membership:
You must show a proven track record as a consultant operating independently in your area of expertise, including at least a two year history of completed consulting jobs and/or have an active customer base to which you currently deliver ongoing consulting activity.
You have to show that you have expertise in your field of concentration, including showing a long task-relevant history and excellent referrals, and possess current manufacturer and/or institutional professional certifications.
You should be able to carry yourself in a professional manner and be self driven and assured in your abilities. You must have excellent communications skills and know how to work effectively alone or as part of a team.
You should be able to articulate proper goals to customers and fellow Progent consultants and you need to be able evaluate projects, create project plans, and estimate realistic work schedules.
Enhance Your Abilities with the Best Technology and Joining a Great Group of Network Engineers Progent's business climate will make you a better consulting professional by enhancing your information technology knowledge and increasing the loyalty of your customers. Progent delivers on this promise by recruiting the top consulting talent for you to work with, offering an advanced system architecture, using proprietary software tools to enable the maximum quality of support, and by streamlining proven operational structures for finding and keeping clients.
The main factor that separates Progent from other network support companies is the quality of our service staff. Out of the 50 or so consulting experts who have joined Progent, we have assembled the best expertise covering a wide range of technical areas. Whether it’s Microsoft Windows, Cisco firewalls, corporate security, Mac, Linux/UNIX, server virtualization, or other crucial technologies, we deploy professionals who can enable you to be successful on major projects by leveraging the collective experience of our team of professionals.
To ensure the success of Progent's consultants, we invest heavily in making available the most powerful technology to perform the job efficiently. We will leverage information technology to an impressive extent and our state-of-the-art virtual office infrastructure allows seamless connectivity, collaboration, and information exchange with fellow Progent consultants — entirely from at-home or on-the-road offices. Consultants don’t waste time or lose revenue with regular drives to a conventional office building, and all driving you do for in-person customer work is determined by your own time table, not ours. The best benefit is that much of Progent's consulting work can be performed off-site, offering 100% efficiency for billable time. In fact, some Progent team members do remote consulting only.
Our business structure is set up for reacting rapidly and effectively to client needs through knowledge exchange and cooperative problem solving. Even though Progent's engineers operate with a high level of independence, resource allocation is centralized, client problems and solutions are carefully tracked, documented, and organized for easy retrieval, up-to-date consultant availability is broadcast to streamline team tasks and simplify problem escalation, and customer approval is continually monitored. We strengthen the feeling of connection through periodic workgroup meetings and quarterly corporate events.
Most of Progent's team is located across California, but Progent is attracting a rapidly expanding team of network experts throughout America. Our virtual office environment does away with geographic obstacles that restrict the productivity of traditional company models. We enhance the deal by providing a comprehensive benefit program to ensure the health and financial welfare of our employees and their families.
Just as we have world-class consultants, Progent's marketing and operations groups match the high standards that characterizes Progent. These high-performance factors behind our growth are helping us to target and land the 50-60 new clients we are now acquiring every month. Progent lately celebrated the providing of support to our 1,000th client. Try typing “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to see for yourself why we are also an effective sales organization.
Possessing a commitment to technical proficiency is a cornerstone for growth with Progent. A career in consulting will push you to learn more than is possible in any other position in information technology. Being confronted by a steady stream of network challenges is what keeps consulting exciting. Clients rely on consulting firms to perform the “hard stuff.” Innovative tasks, advanced implementations, puzzling or chronic problems, and tricky upgrades are the foundation for our services daily. With us, you will not stagnate or be pigeonholed, as is sadly common for network engineers in traditional corporate jobs. You will awake every day enthusiastic about the opportunities to come.
On the way, you will work with some great people, both by establishing close customer relationships and by operating in conjunction with other Progent team members, where you will benefit from and add to their success. Of course, technology is vital, but Progent is a relationship-oriented organization through and through. If you don’t offer excellent communications skills or like working with a varied assortment of people, then we are probably not a good fit.
If this sounds right for you, we urge you to contact Progent about our view of the future of network consulting.
Enjoy Lifestyle Improvements and Professional Prowess with Progent's Advanced Virtual Office Infrastructure Progent believes that a carefully architected and executed network can be a pivotal factor for enabling a firm's success, and Progent applies this credo in our own system infrastructure. Progent has created a fault-tolerant virtual office network that allows our in-house engineers and certified contractors to offer rapid and effective service, collaborate easily on sophisticated jobs, and gain from career and private maturity from acting as part of a dynamic company culture of personal drive and freedom.
Progent’s high availability interoffice connectivity and fault tolerant system connection engineers can help small businesses create non-stop Interoffice connectivity by means of redundant networks with transparent failover. Progent’s Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts can plan and deploy fault tolerant Inter-office connections based on non-stop EIGRP routers or non-stop OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can demonstrate how redundant connections and transparent fail-over offers affordable 24x7 interoffice networking.
If your company is producing UNIX-based applications on a network that includes Windows-based processors, PCs, and office applications, Progent offers comprehensive information technology outsourcing that frees you to concentrate on your area of high-value expertise while avoiding the continual hassle of managing your business network. Through the use of automated network monitoring and by providing remote and in-person support when your business needs it, Progent offers an economical way for supporting an IT system that provides excellent availability, protection, and efficiency. Progent's developer support services include comprehensive network support outsourcing, virtual server infrastructure, online and on-sitesupport and repair, network monitoring, and help desk call center support.
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consulting professionals provide high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services including architecture, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and safe access services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home businesses to modular enterprise-class appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide advanced protection, performance, and high availability for network environments of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed operating system,eliminating possible OS-specific security gaps.
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals provide computer support and network consulting services for Exchange 2003 Server, Windows Server 2003, and for the entire line of Microsoft server platforms. Progent's upgrade, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting services for Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server include system design, deployment, project management, local and remote technical support, Help Desk outsourcing, expert security evaluation, and comprehensive network management outsourcing.
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals have 20 years of experience designing, installing, and supporting email systems for Bay Area clients. Progent provides affordable Microsoft Exchange Servers consulting services to ensure that your email system features security, high availability, easy access for off-site and mobile users, efficient administrative utilities, and productive integration with telephony. Progent offers consulting and integration services for Exchange 2007 Server, Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server, Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, and Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5. Progent can also help small or medium companies to migrate from Exchange 5.5, Microsoft Exchange 2000, or Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
Progent provides nationwide urgent help and consulting services for companies who run Apple Mac environments or whose IT systems include a combination of Apple Mac and Microsoft technology. Remote network consulting offers optimum leverage for your information technology dollar by extending client efficiency and limiting the hours billed for computer repair services. Advanced remote support tools and skilled service specialists and consultants combine to enable Progent to solve the majority of IT problems without squandering time and money by going to your site. In most of situations your network issues can be remediated by telephone or through a mix of telephone help and online connectivity. Progent can put you in touch with Cisco certified CCIE network experts and CISA and CISM qualified security professionals to help with the most difficult system issues.
Progent's Cisco-certified network management engineers can assist you to use Cisco's management tools along with a variety of powerful third-party applications to create a complete network management solution in order to keep your network operating reliably, conserve expensive resources, guard your data, revive quickly from hardware breakdown or malicious attacks, and allow you to add or reassign valuable resources intelligently and economically as your company evolves.
If your business network combines UNIX, Linux or Solaris technology with MS Windows, Progent can show you how to incorporate your IT resources into a unified environment that allows all your OS platforms to run side by side for simple administration, seamless dataflow, high dependability, superior throughput, and strong security. Progent's UNIX/Linux/Solaris and MS Windows coexistence assistance offerings include network architecture integration and support, consulting for Microsoft Windows services for UNIX (SFU), online server monitoring and administration, remote network help and troubleshooting, in-person technical support, and help desk outsourcing.
Progent is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has earned special competencies such as Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and Information Worker Solutions. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners represent the most successful Microsoft Business Partners who receive the top client endorsement and enjoy the closest operational relationship with Microsoft. The knowledge, skills, and commitment needed to earn the level of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner pays dividends to Progent's customers by enabling Progent to provide your business better support for your IT system.
Progent is among the most expert information technology consulting companies in Northern California for integrating email and messaging solutions powered by Exchange 2000 Server. Progent specializes in helping small businesses derive the full benefits of Exchange 2000 for typical scenarios including upgrading from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Server, moving from an ISP-managed or POP3 e-mail environment, and jobbing out your Exchange 2000 support.
