Full-time and Freelance Openings with Progent Jobs for EXperienced Network Consultants, Computer Support Technicians, Security Consultants, and Application Programmers
One of the premiere network consultant firms for small and midsize business systems, Progent maintains a large staff of talented support professionals who focus on mainstream IT areas including:
Microsoft technology
Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, plus Voice over IP and VPN solutions
Network security consulting
Sophisticated network infrastructures
Off-site troubleshooting and network management
Progent's Experts Group, which includes freelance consultants certified and managed by Progent, offers exceptionally specialized skills covering a wide variety of key business areas and network technologies that include:
Macintosh integration and programs
Expertise for Linux-powered, UNIX, and Sun Solaris systems
Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM consulting
Mission-critical and specialized application help
Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project logistics outsourcing
Custom applications design and deployment
Web, electronic business, EDI, and client information portal development and deployment
Database management and efficiency help
Business intelligence expertise
Telecom architecture consulting
Creative structures for finding customers, delivering service, establishing a dynamic working environment, and offering highly competitive profit sharing have allowed Progent to become one of the most rapidly growing and most well respected Microsoft Gold Partners consultant organizations in the U.S. and to establish an international presence for delivering online network support. If you are an accredited IT support professional or network expert with a drive for a client service and excellent people skills, consultants should consider Progent an opportunity for increasing your professional skills, developing a more independent lifestyle, and achieving financial security.
Learn Additional Details Concerning Jobs with Progent
Follow these links to find out additional information concerning Progent's work opportunities, business culture, work conditions, compensation structure, and benefits packages:
Full-time Jobs at Progent
Progent is looking for a range of full-time workers including motivated Microsoft MCSE network consultants; connectivity experts who have Cisco CCIE credentials; and consultants for fault-tolerant network architecture with backgrounds in mobile connectivity, wireless integration, non-stop systems, business continuity planning, data preservation, and virtual servers. Progent is also looking for desktop support technicians, remote service professionals, and CISM accredited security consultants. Progent is also seeking veteran managers and administrators able to operate efficiently in our dynamic, virtual office model. Find out more information concerning full-time professional services positions at Progent by visiting Full-time Jobs at Progent.
Contract Opportunities at Progent
Progent contracts independent professionals who have in-depth knowledge and field background in high-demand information technology areas beyond Progent's primary technical focus. Our Experts Team includes contractors who can provide advice and programming support for mission-critical solutions such as MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management; have deep knowledge of non-Microsoft platforms such as Linux, Macintosh, or Sun, or offer world-class skills in technologies like telecom, web site development, Electronic Data Interchange, eCommerce, or database management. Independent consultants certified by us cooperate with our full-time engineers to deliver end-to-end IT services for small business networks. If you want to find out additional information concerning contract opportunities with Progent's Experts Consulting Group, see Freelance Work at Progent.
Reasons That Progent Is Different
Progent has managed to recruit the best consulting experts by being unique. With a powerful blend of entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to client success, utilization of state-of-the-art technical tools, and an independent business model that offers quality-of-life choices for our team members, Progent offers a stimulating environment for select individuals who posses a drive for quickly enhancing their technical abilities to deliver concrete solutions for a variety of organizations and network environments. Learn more details about ways that we are exceptional by visiting Ways That Progent Is Unique.
Progent's Virtual Office Infrastructure
Our virtual office model incorporates state-of-the-art technologies that enable remote support, wireless communication, convenient access to our support databases, and close cooperation with mobile team members to help you to solve challenging IT issues. Progent's virtual office environment frees you to concentrate on delivering IT solutions instead of dealing with commutes and lets you establish lasting client relationships by permitting you to come up with fast, viable, and cost-effective solutions. In order to learn additional information concerning our virtual office business model, go to Progent virtual Office Work Environment.
Compensation and Benefit Programs
Our compensation is based on revenue sharing. The money you earn is wholly based on the revenue you generate. Consultants have the choice of focusing on quality of life and electing to work at a more relaxed pace, using our flexible schedule to make time for personal pursuits, or you can choose to make significant money by persistent work and lots of consulting time. Progent also offers complete family health coverage as well as many other benefits. Learn more information concerning our compensation and benefits by referring to Our Compensation Model and Benefit Packages.
Employment at Progent Frequently Asked Questions
To see answers to popular enquiries about becoming employed by Progent, see Jobs at Progent Questions and Answers.
Below is a description of Progent's current job opportunities:
Job Code
Job Description
A09
Operations Administrator Position
Progent is seeking a talented person for the home-office role of Operations Administrator to help the Director of Operations with the day-to-day management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in performing A/P and asset management functions for a small, rapidly growing company.
Information Technology Hiring Manager Job
Progent has an opening for an experienced administrative executive responsible for recruiting IT experts to join Progent's group of network support engineers who offer IT outsourcing and technical consulting assistance to customers worldwide.
Technical Response Center Coordinator Job
Progent has a position for a talented individual for the job of Technical Response Center (TRC) Coordinator working with a creative high tech company in a fast-paced environment. The TRC Coordinator is to be the first point of contact for incoming TRC and Main number phone calls and must present a professional and compassionate attitude in the initiation of Emergency Services.
Customer Services Administrative Assistant Job
The Customer Services Administrative Assistant assists the Director of Customer Services in the day-to-day operations of Progent’s Customer Care program, which includes duties such as First Service follow up calls. The Customer Services Administrative Assistant provides a variety of administrative duties for the Director of Customer Services to ensure Progent delivers exceptional client care.
Market Development Representative Jobs
The Business Development Representative is a top level sales executive charged with selling Progent's wide array of network outsourcing and support offerings and functioning as the primary customer liaison. The Business Development Representative is a key part of the executive team, operating closely with the CEO and Directors and Managers to make sure that business goals are accomplished and that the highest level of services are provided to our clients.
Senior IT Consultant, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Positions
Progent is looking for an experienced, MCSE support professional to join Progent's core staff of consulting professionals. Applicant must have people skills as well as network expertise and must be solutions oriented.
Desktop Engineer Job
Progent is looking for a Desktop Support Expert to assist Progent clients to provide service to all users of desktop and laptop computers based on MS Windows 2000, Windows Vista, and XP technology. Work collaboratively with customer's management or IT staff or under the supervision of a Progent Senior Engineer to help the customer's end users.
Senior Remote Support Expert Jobs
Progent is seeking a Senior Remote Support Expert to help a variety of Progent's clients to maintain and service computer networks off-site, utilizing sophisticated technology such as Microsoft Windows 2K/2003 and Microsoft's .NET platform.
Senior Remote Network Support Expert Positions in Australia
Progent is seeking a Senior Online Support Expert in Australia to assist a variety of Progent's international customers to maintain and repair information networks via telephone or remote access.
Certified Cisco Consultant Job
Progent is looking for a Certified Cisco Consultant with CCIE or CCNA certification to work with Progent's team of professionals to help clients to plan, install, maintain, and repair IT networks based on Cisco technology.
Certified Security Engineer Positions
Progent is seeking a Senior Security Consultant with CISA or equivalent security credentials to join Progent's team of experts to provide customers a full range of security services such as network security analysis, security testing, security strategy, network monitoring, security modeling, access management solutions consulting, operations security, and disaster recovery planning.
If you want to apply for any job listed above, you should send your background information to jobs@progent.com. Please copy the code numbers of the positions that interest you.
More Information Concerning Jobs at Progent
Staff Work for Network Engineers, Computer Service Technicians, Security Consultants, and Online Help Professionals Progent is seeking to hire staff-level, results-oriented Microsoft accredited consultants with Microsoft MCSE or MCSA credentials; Cisco certified network engineers with CCIE credentials; security consultants who have CISSP, CISM, or CISA or comparable security certification; and advanced network architecture experts with experience in mobile access, wireless networking, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, information protection, and VMware. Progent also is hiring employees who can work on Progent's team of help desk service technicians and off-site support professionals. Also, Progent is seeking experienced administrators who can operate effectively in our fast-paced, virtual office environment.
By maintaining a staff of talented and motivated consultants, providing attentive customer services, and offering a competitive results-focused pricing structure, Progent has been able to increase our client list dramatically while delivering consulting services to numerous companies in the San Francisco area and across the U.S.. An advanced virtual office environment, a shared information base, and a team strategy for problem resolution have allowed Progent to retain a skilled consulting team and a satisfied customer list.
If you are a network professional with technical support expertise, teaming with Progent or working for our clients can expand your skills via interaction with our group of mutually team-oriented, talented engineers. Progent's focus on providing information technology consulting and computer help to small and midsize companies will offer you the chance to collaborate closely with key players and add appreciably to the success of dynamic businesses.
Progent is looking for technical professionals that can show recognized credentials related to their special focus. So, if you are a Microsoft consultant, you should have your Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer credential. In the case of Cisco professionals, show us your CCIE or CCNP certificate. For network security, you should show you CISSP, CISA, Certified Information Security Manager, or one of the other top security certifications. Naturally, we are familiar with “paper MCSEs.” Still, simply because a credential can not ensure expertise is no reason for not having one. If you have mastered your field, then the majority of those certifications should pose no great difficulty. The point is that if you represent yourself to be an expert, then clients expect credentials. Progent will promote your talents, but you should have standard credentials for us to work with. In case you stand strongly opposed to the concept of credentials, we can understand and respect your opinion, but you are likely not an appropriate fit.
Contract Work for Qualified Experts for Windows, Apple OS, Linux/UNIX, and Sun Solaris Technology For over two decades, our information technology engineers have offered low-cost and effective computer consulting services for businesses in Northern California and across the United States. A sophisticated virtual office network, a common support knowledge base, and a collaborative approach to problem resolution have enabled us to retain a talented in-house team and dramatically expand a satisfied client base.
The Experts Team is Progent's way to offer clients the services of expert information technology support engineers who have advanced knowledge and field background in key technologies outside of Progent's core focus in system infrastructure and security. Experts Team consultants are often freelance contractors and sometimes "moonlighters" who have been thoroughly qualified by us to work closely with Progent's in-house consultants to deliver end-to-end, world-class information technology services to small and midsize companies. We are always expanding our Experts Team in order to meet the particular needs of our clients.
Progent's Experts Team currently provides consulting in these technologies:
Apple OS integration and applications
Consulting for Linux, UNIX, and Sun Solaris systems
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM customization
Mission-critical and specialized application help
CIO, business analyst, and project management services
Special applications development and integration
Web, electronic business, EDI, and customer portal development and integration
DBM management and performance help
Management intelligence consulting
Telecom architecture support
Advantages of becoming part of Progent's Experts Group include:
By working with us, you can benefit from the impact of our explosive expansion and excellent recognition in the marketplace. By having a group of skilled and dedicated professionals, providing attentive client care, and following a proven, value-focused billing model, Progent has quadrupled our customer base during the last several years and Progent currently delivers professoinal services to hundreds of businesses in Northern California and throughout the United States.
Our veteran marketing team handles all facets of marketing your services and areas of expertise into our rapidly growing client base, so you spend less effort signing up customers and more time making money.
We will facilitate communications between you and Progent's core group of experienced Microsoft and Cisco certified engineers who are the gateway to the key executives among Progent's clients.
Progent's sales and operations teams will take care of the complete sales and engagement process, from lead identification, project qualification, customer requirements definition, capabilities matching, job scoping proposal generation, contract negotiation and generation. Your exclusive responsibility is on providing top-quality consulting service.
We will gives you connections to Progent's advanced virtual office environment, offering convenient conference locations throughout the San Francisco area, and Internet and telecomm access anywhere in the United States.
You will have the benefit of our vast database, best practices processes, library of template-deliverable publications, and the shared expertise from one of Northern California's largest pool of experienced network engineers.
We will pass on special benefits from leading technology companies such as Microsoft and Cisco, including free ordiscounted educational seminars, web connections to special vendor troubleshooting tools and technical support resources, and downloadable in-house use software for education 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 not any cost to be part of Progent's Experts Team, but we do have the following qualifications for membership:
You need to have a strong track record as a consultant operating independently in your area of specialization, including a minimum two year record of successful consulting jobs or you must have your own active customer base to whom you now provide continuing support services.
You should show that you are an expert in your area of concentration, which includes having an extensive work-related history and excellent referrals, and possess up-to-date manufacturer and/or industry professional qualifications.
You need to be able to present yourself in a professional way and be self motivated and assured in your skills. You should have strong inter-personal skills and be able to work effectively alone or as a member of a team.
You must know how to communicate realistic goals to customers and other Progent consultants and you need to know how analyze tasks, create task plans, and estimate realistic work schedules.
Enhance Your Skills with the Best Technology and Joining the Top Team of Network Engineers Progent's company culture will make you a better professional by enhancing your technical skills and boosting the loyalty of your clients. Progent makes good on this promise by recruiting the best professional talent for you to work with, offering a state-of-the-art system architecture, running specialized software tools to deliver the maximum level of service, and by optimizing proven business structures for attracting and retaining customers.
The main factor that distinguishes Progent from most consulting companies is the high caliber of our support professionals. Out of the 50 or so consulting experts who have teamed with us, we have assembled the best talent across a broad range of technologies. Be it Microsoft servers, Cisco firewalls, network security, Mac, Linux/UNIX, VMware, or other crucial areas, we deploy professionals who can help you to be successful on major projects by leveraging the aggregate experience of our group of professionals.
To promote the success of our team, we invest significantly in making available the most powerful technology to perform the work efficiently. Progent will leverage technology to an impressive extent and our advanced virtual office environment enables seamless connectivity, cooperation, and information sharing with fellow Progent team members — all from home-based or on-the-road offices. You don’t throw away time or forfeit income with regular drives to a physical office, and any driving you do for in-person customer work is based on your own time table, not Progent's. The best benefit is that most of Progent's consulting services can be performed remotely, offering 100% productivity for billable time. In practice, some of our team members do remote consulting only.
Our business structure is set up for reacting rapidly and efficiently to customer requirements via knowledge exchange and cooperative problem solving. Although our consultants operate with a great deal of freedom, resource allocation is unified, client problems and solutions are carefully monitored, recorded, and archived for convenient reference, current consultant schedules are published to streamline team projects and enable trouble escalation, and customer satisfaction is always evaluated. We reinforce the feeling of cooperation via periodic workgroup conferences and quarterly corporate events.
The majority of our team is located across California, however we are building a rapidly expanding group of consulting experts from across the U.S. Our virtual office environment does away with geographic boundaries that limit the efficiency of traditional business structures. We complete the deal by providing a full employee care plan to ensure the health and financial welfare of our employees and their relations.
Just as we have awesome consulting professionals, Progent's sales and operations teams live up to the excellence that characterizes Progent. These top-notch factors behind our success are helping us to identify and sign up the 50-60 new customers we are currently acquiring every month. Progent recently marked the providing of services to our 1,000th client. Try typing “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to see for yourself why Progent is also a strong marketing operation.
Possessing a commitment to technical excellence is a key for success with Progent. A job in consulting will push you to learn more than is possible in any other job in network technology. Being confronted by a continual series of technical challenges is what makes professional support interesting. Clients choose a consultant to perform the toughest jobs. Creative tasks, leading-edge implementations, puzzling or chronic issues, and tricky migrations are the basis for our services daily. At Progent, you will not stagnate or be pigeonholed, as is sadly typical for network engineers in traditional corporate jobs. You will wake up every day enthusiastic about the challenges ahead.
Along the way, you will meet some wonderful folks, both by establishing close client relationships and by working closely with other Progent team members, where you will benefit from and contribute to their success. Of course, technology is vital, but Progent is a relationship-oriented company heart and soul. If you do not have excellent communications skills or enjoy working with a varied group of personalities, then Progent is probably not a good match.
If this seems right for you, we urge you to talk to Progent about our vision of the new paradigm of network consulting.
Get Lifestyle Benefits and Professional Prowess with Progent's Advanced Virtual Office Environment Progent is convinced that a well architected and implemented network can be a crucial piece for accelerating a company's growth, and we apply this belief in our own network environment. We have created a fault-tolerant virtual office network that enables our staff consultants and certified contractors to deliver fast and effective support, collaborate closely on sophisticated projects, and experience career and private growth by being a member of a dynamic business culture of self motivation and independence.
High-Availability Systems Remote Support IT Consulting
Progent’s high availability system experts offer reliability consulting, disaster recovery services, network load balancing, fault-tolerant interoffice connectivity, fault-tolerant Internet interface design, non-stop data center support, and other non-stop networking support to show your organization integrate a non-stop network for line-of-business applications. Progent has the background to develop economical, non-stop systems by deploying the expanding suite of Windows Cluster servers including Windows 2003 Cluster Server, Microsoft SQL Server Cluster, and Microsoft Exchange Cluster. Progent’s Microsoft and Cisco authorized engineers can help you build a high-availability mutli-location network with a fully mirrored Internet interface and intelligent network load balancing.
Progent offers access to Cisco switches consultants to deliver professional network planning and troubleshooting services for business networks based on Cisco switching products. Cisco switches implement cutting edge QoS to help make sure that network traffic is identified and ranked, and that bottlenecks are avoided. Configuration of Quality of Service for a Cisco switch is greatly simplified through auto-QoS, a function that detects Cisco IP phones and automatically configures the switch for the appropriate sorting and egress staging. This streamlines traffic prioritization and system throughput without requiring your IT staff to implement a complex switch configuration. Through the Cisco Catalyst switches for small and midsized businesses, Cisco enables customers to reap the full advantages of putting smart services into their IT networks. A Cisco network switch makes it practical to install capabilities that make the network environment consistently available to handle real-time needs, scalable to support growth, safe enough to guard sensitive information, and capable of classifying and managing traffic. Progent’s Cisco-certified network professionals can show you how to choose and deploy a Cisco Ethernet switch to maximize your network’s throughput and reliability.
For corporations with branches in Northern California or any region served by Progent's consultants, Progent's Microsoft-certified network support professionals and certified Cisco system specialists offer a range of network support services including project management, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, site relocations, enterprise security, network design, local or remote emergency support, and troubleshooting for colocation hosting environments. A Progent network consultant can help you plan a multi-site information system that makes smart use of colocation services and Internet data centers. Progent’s Microsoft qualified consultants can help major enterprises design, deploy and support massive rollouts of updated versions of Microsoft technology including Enterprise Active Directory, Exchange Server, Systems Management Server, Microsoft SQL, and Enterprise Windows. Progent’s CCIE and CCNP experts can help you deploy Cisco products for connection solutions that incorporate basic, high-speed, integrated, and remote networking.
SQL Server 2005 delivers indispensable, standardized tools to computer professionals and information workers, lessening the complexity of designing, deploying, administering, and using company information and analytical programs on platforms ranging from mobile devices to corporate data networks. The complexity and interconnectivity demands of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 call for an IT consultant with hands-on experience and wide knowledge in planning and deploying information-based, comprehensive business IT applications. The expertise of Progent's Microsoft-certified engineering staff, with an average of more than 10 years of background involving Microsoft integration, assures you success in designing, configuring and managing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 applications that are seamlessly integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
Progent's Cisco-authorized IT consultants can help you design an affordable, high availability Internet connection solution that can achieve non-stop Internet connectivity via a broad array of fault tolerant Internet access technologies including non-stop BGP, automatic fail-over, and multiple Internet Service Providers. Progent can provide CCIE professionals to show you how to apply the most current techniques for high availability Internet connections to create an economical, fully redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other capabilities to deliver fault tolerant Internet connections.
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consultants provide expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support covering infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. 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, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home offices to modular enterprise-class appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of protection, high throughput, and excellent availability for network environments of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built platform,eliminating possible OS-specific security gaps. PIX firewalls offer a variety of integrated protection and networking services, including cutting edge application-aware firewall services, VoIP and multimedia security, interoffice and mobile access IPSec VPN communication, intelligent networking services, and comprehensive management options. The Cisco ASA 5500 Adaptive Security Appliances utilize engineering proven in security appliances from Cisco's PIX 500 family. Progent’s IT security experts can help you select and deploy any PIX 500 or ASA 5500 Series firewalls including the PIX 515E Firewall, the Cisco PIX 525 Firewall, and the Cisco ASA 5510 Firewall.
Progent can give you access to programmers who can modify your Microsoft Business Solutions ERP, MRP, and accounting system applications to meet your particular company requirements. Progent’s Microsoft consultants offer expertise in Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP Software, Microsoft Microsoft Navision, Microsoft Solomon, and Microsoft Business Solutions Retail Management Software. Progent also provides expert e-Commerce integration services for secure, company-wide information sharing plus interfacing with CRM programs.
Progent is a leader in affordably providing enterprise-class network support to small businesses. Progent's achievement in handling the IT service needs of the chronically underserved small business market is the combined result of major technical and operational innovations that have removed a great deal of the traditional expenses out of managing network service, injected unmatched professional expertise into the support mechanism, and dramatically accelerated the repair cycle.
By using virtual server technology, businesses can operate many virtual servers on one physical server. Virtual server technology allows businesses to gain all the advantages of server segmentation, but without the costs associated with purchasing additional server hardware. Other key server management technologies include server monitoring utilities, Windows Server Update Services, and remote system management hardware. Progent's professional server management specialists can help you in all aspects of server consolidation and administration to allow your business to contain costs and save time.
