Career and Contracting Openings at Progent Jobs for Senior Network Engineers, Desktop Service Technicians, Security Experts, and Application Specialists
Among America's top computer consulting firms for small business systems, Progent manages a full-time team of certified service experts who focus on core technologies including:
Microsoft technology
Cisco routers, switches, PIX firewalls, plus Voice over IP and Virtual Private Network solutions
Network security expertise
Advanced system architecture
Off-site IT support and system administration
Our Experts Team, which includes freelance consultants certified and managed by Progent, offers highly specialized skills covering a broad variety of critical business areas and networking solutions that include:
Apple OS integration and programs
Support for Linux-based, UNIX-based, and Sun systems
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM consulting
Line-of-business and vertical application support
Chief Information Officer, management information analyst, and project logistics services
Custom program design and deployment
Web site, electronic business, EDI, and client information portal development and integration
Database management and performance help
Management intelligence consulting
Telecommunications systems consulting
Innovative structures for attracting customers, providing service, nurturing a dynamic working environment, and providing highly competitive compensation and benefits have enabled us to be one of the fastest growing and most well respected Microsoft Gold Partners consulting companies in the U.S. and to build an international organization for delivering online IT assistance. If you are a certified IT support professional or information technology consultant with a focus on a customer success and strong communication skills, you will find in Progent a chance for adding to your professional knowledge, developing a more rewarding career, and achieving financial success.
Find Out Additional Information Concerning Working with Progent
Follow these links to learn additional information concerning our job openings, company culture, work conditions, compensation model, and benefits:
Consulting Careers at Progent
Progent is hiring a range of on-staff employees such as motivated Microsoft MCSE and MCP computer consultants; connectivity experts who have Cisco CCIE or CCNP credentials; and specialists in fault-tolerant system architecture with backgrounds in mobile connectivity, wireless networking, non-stop environments, business continuity solutions, data protection, and server virtualization. Progent is also seeking desktop support experts, off-site troubleshooting professionals, and CISSP certified security professionals. Progent is also hiring experienced managers and administrators who can operate efficiently in our high-growth, virtual office environment. Find out more information about staff consulting positions at Progent by going to Full-time Positions at Progent.
Contracting Work at Progent
Progent contracts freelance professionals with in-depth knowledge and field experience in crucial IT areas beyond our primary service focus. Progent's Experts Group hires independent consultants who can provide advice and programming services for strategic applications such as Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM; possess deep knowledge of non-Microsoft platforms such as Linux, Apple OS, or Sun, or offer world-class skills in areas such as telecom, web site design, Electronic Data Interchange, web commerce, or database management. Independent contractors qualified by Progent cooperate with Progent's full-time consultants to deliver end-to-end solutions for small and midsize business networks. If you want to learn more details concerning contract jobs with Progent's Experts Consulting Group, refer to Contract Work at Progent.
Ways That Progent Is Unique
Progent has been able to recruit the top consulting talent by being different. Providing an innovative blend of enterprising spirit, insistence on client success, use of state-of-the-art technology, plus a flexible business model that accommodates life-style choices for Progent's consulting team, Progent offers a dynamic culture for select individuals who posses a drive for rapidly enhancing their professional skills to deliver concrete benefits for a variety of businesses and technical environments. Find out more information concerning reasons Progent is different by visiting Reasons That We Are Unique.
Our Virtual Office Network
Our virtual office network uses sophisticated technical tools that enable off-site support, wireless communication, convenient access to our knowledge bases, and instant collaboration with talented team members to help you to handle challenging IT issues. Progent's virtual office network enables you to focus on providing service instead of dealing with traffic and lets consultants nurture lasting customer relationships by enabling you to provide fast, effective, and cost-effective solutions. To learn more details about Progent's virtual office network, go to Progent virtual Office Infrastructure.
Compensation and Benefit Programs
Progent's compensation is based on revenue sharing. What you make is directly determined by the revenue you generate. You have the option of concentrating on life style and electing to work at a more relaxed pace, utilizing Progent's versatile structure to follow individual pursuits, or you can choose to make considerable money through hard effort and lots of hours. Progent also offers comprehensive family health care insurance plus many other benefits. Find out more information about Progent's compensation model and benefit packages by visiting Our Compensation and Benefit Programs.
Below is a description of some available job opportunities:
Job Code
Job Description
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Operations Administrator Job
Progent is seeking a motivated person for the work-at-home role of Operations Administrator to help the Director of Operations with the day-to-day management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in performing expense and asset management responsibilities for a small, rapidly expanding company.
IT Recruitment Manager Job
Progent is looking for a senior administrator tasked with hiring IT experts to join Progent's group of network support engineers who offer IT outsourcing and technical consulting assistance to clients globally.
Executive Assistant Position
Progent now has a home office position for an Personal Assistant to the President to work with the president of Progent to oversee of a broad assortment of non-technical tasks including call screening, record keeping, administration, special projects, shipping time-critical documents, organizing scheduled sales and engineering meetings, scanning and filing documents, obtaining signatures, managing printing, making transportation bookings, and managing the president's schedule.
Technical Response Center Coordinator Job
Progent has a job opening for a talented individual for the job of Technical Response Center (TRC) Coordinator working with a creative high tech business in a fast-paced environment. The Technical Response Center Coordinator is to be the initial point of contact for incoming TRC and Main number phone calls and must project a professional and sympathetic attitude in the start up of Urgent 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 carries out an assortment of administrative responsibilities for the Director of Customer Services to make sure Progent provides exceptional client care.
Market Development Manager Positions
The Business Development Representative is a senior level sales manager charged with selling Progent's broad range of IT outsourcing and consulting services and acting as the front-line client interface. The Business Development Representative is a member of the executive team, working closely with the President and Directors and Managers to ensure that business goals are met and that top notch services are provided to our customers.
Senior Network Consulting Expert, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Jobs
Progent is looking for an experienced, Microsoft-certified support professional to become part of Progent's internal group of consulting experts. You must have communication skills plus network expertise and must be solutions oriented.
Desktop Engineer Jobs
Progent is seeking a Desktop Support Expert to help Progent clients to maintain all workers using desktop and laptop computers powered by MS Windows 2K, Windows Vista, and XP platforms. Work in unison with client's management or IT organization or under the direction of a Progent Senior Engineer to help the customer's workers.
Senior Remote Support Engineer Positions
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Support Expert to work with a range of Progent's clients to manage and service IT systems on-line, using advanced tools such as Microsoft Windows 2K/2003 and Microsoft's .NET product family.
Senior Remote Technical Support Expert Jobs in Australia
Progent is seeking a Senior Online Support Specialist in Australia to assist a range of Progent's worldwide customers to maintain and service computer systems by telephone or online connections.
Senior Cisco Engineer Jobs
Progent is looking for a Senior Cisco Engineer with Cisco CCIE certification to join Progent's team of professionals to assist customers to plan, integrate, maintain, and repair small business networks based on Cisco technology.
Certified Security Consultant Jobs
Progent is seeking a Senior Security Consultant with CISA or similar security credentials to join Progent's team of experts to offer customers a full range of security consulting such as network security evaluation, penetration testing, security planning, remote monitoring, security modeling, access control solutions expertise, operations security, and disaster recovery planning.
If you wish to ask about any opening listed above, please send your resume to jobs@progent.com. Be sure to copy the job codes of the jobs that interest you.
More Information About Opportunities with Us
Staff Jobs for Network Consultants, Desktop Service Specialists, Security Experts, and Online Help Technicians Progent wants to hire full-time, results-oriented Microsoft certified consultants with Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer certification; Cisco accredited system engineers with Cisco CCIE, CCNP, or CCNA certification; security consultants who have CISSP or comparable security credentials; and advanced network design consultants with a background in mobile solutions, wireless networking, fault tolerance, business continuity, information preservation, and server virtualization. Progent also seeks professionals who can join Progent's staff of help desk service specialists and off-site support experts. In addition, We are hiring talented managers who can operate effectively in Progent's fast-paced, virtual office culture.
By supporting a team of talented and motivated consultants, providing attentive client care, and offering a strong value-based fee model, We have been able to expand our client list dramatically while providing consulting support to hundreds of companies in the San Francisco area and across the United States. An advanced virtual office network, a shared knowledge base, and a group strategy for problem solving have allowed Progent to retain a talented consulting team and a loyal client list.
If you are an information technology professional with technical support expertise, teaming with Progent or working for Progent's clients will expand your skills via cooperation with Progent's group of highly team-oriented, expert consultants. Our focus on delivering network expertise and technical support to small and midsize companies will give you the opportunity to work intimately with key players and contribute significantly to the success of dynamic businesses.
Progent is looking for consultants who have verifiable credentials in their special focus. So, if you are a Microsoft expert, you must have your MCSE credential. For Cisco experts, show us your Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or CCNP certificate. For network security, you should have earned you Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Systems Auditor, CISM, or one of the other top security certifications. Of course, Progent is familiar with “paper MCSEs.” However, the fact that a credential does not ensure excellence is no reason for not owning one. If you know your field, then most of those certifications should be no challenge. The crux of the matter is that if you represent yourself to be an expert, then customers deserve to see certifications. We can promote your talents, but you should provide standard certifications for Progent to market. In case you happen to be strongly against the concept of certifications, we can sympathize with and respect your opinion, but you are probably not a good candidate.
Freelance Jobs for Certified Application Specialists for Windows, Macintosh, Linux-based, and Sun Technology For more than 20 years, our information technology professionals have provided affordable and successful computer support expertise for businesses in Northern California and across the United States. An advanced virtual office network, a shared support database, and a collaborative philosophy for problem resolution have helped us to retain a strong staff and dramatically grow a loyal clientele.
The Experts Group is our way to offer customers the help of specialized information technology support professionals who have advanced skills and work background in key technologies outside of Progent's primary focus in system support and security. Experts Team members are often freelance contractors and sometimes "moonlighters" who have been thoroughly certified by Progent to work closely with Progent's in-house engineers to deliver comprehensive, enterprise-class information technology solutions to small companies. Progent is continually expanding the Experts Team in order to meet the special needs of our customer base.
Our Experts Team currently offers consulting in these technologies:
Macintosh networking and applications
Expertise for Linux, UNIX, and Sun Solaris environments
Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM consulting
Strategic and specialized application help
CIO, business analyst, and project logistics services
Special program design and integration
Web site, electronic business, Electronic Data Interchange, and customer information portal development and deployment
SQL management and performance consulting
Management intelligence expertise
Telecommunications architecture consulting
Advantages of becoming a member of Progent's Experts Group include:
By associating with us, you can benefit from the momentum of Progent's dramatic growth and top-notch recognition in the marketplace. By having a team of skilled and committed consultants, providing excellent client support, and following a strong, value-oriented billing model, Progent has multiplied our customer base over the past few years and Progent now delivers consulting services to hundreds of companies in California and across the U.S.
Our veteran marketing team takes care of all aspects of marketing your skills and technical expertise into our quickly growing client base, so you spend less time signing up clients and more time making revenue.
We will facilitate relationship building between you and Progent's core group of experienced Microsoft and Cisco qualified consultants who act as the gateway to the key executives among Progent's clients.
Our selling and operations staffs will manage the complete selling and engagement cycle, from lead generation, job qualification, customer needs definition, skills matching, project scoping proposal generation, contract negotiation and execution. Your entire responsibility stays with providing top-quality consulting expertise.
We will gives you connections to Progent's sophisticated virtual office infrastructure, offering professional meeting/work sites in Northern California, plus data and voice connectivity anywhere in the United States.
You will have access to our extensive knowledge base, best practices processes, abundance of professional documents, and the shared expertise from one of Northern California's largest pool of expert consulting professionals.
We will pass on special benefits from leading technology companies such as Microsoft and Cisco, including no-cost orlow-cost educational seminars, web access to restricted vendor support utilities and product support resources, and downloadable internal use programs for education and/or sales 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 cost to be a member of our Experts Group, but Progent has strict qualifications to join:
You must show a proven background as a consultant operating on your own in your area of expertise, including a minimum two year history of successful consulting projects and/or have an active client base for which you currently provide ongoing support services.
You should show that you have expertise in your field of specialization, which includes having an extensive task-relevant history and excellent referrals, and have current vendor and/or industry professional certifications.
You have to be able to carry yourself in a professional way and be self motivated and assured in your abilities. You should have excellent inter-personal skills and be able to work efficiently alone or as a member of a group.
You have to know how to explain proper goals to customers and other Progent consultants and you must be able analyze projects, produce project plans, and estimate realistic work schedules.
Enhance Your Skills with Advanced Technology and Working with a Great Group of Network Consultants Progent's company culture will make you a better consultant by enhancing your technical skills and boosting the loyalty of your customers. Progent makes good on this commitment by recruiting the top professional talent for you to operate with, providing an advanced network and communications architecture, using specialized software utilities to enable the highest level of service, and by optimizing proven operational structures for finding and maintaining customers.
The main factor that separates us from most consulting companies is the quality of our service staff. Out of the 50 or so consulting experts who have teamed with Progent, we have recruited top expertise covering a broad range of technologies. Whether it’s Microsoft servers, Cisco firewalls, network security, Mac, Linux/UNIX, virtual servers, or other crucial areas, we deploy professionals who can help you to be successful on major jobs by leveraging the collective experience of our team of experts.
To promote the success of our team, we invest significantly in providing the best tools to perform the job efficiently. Progent will leverage technology to an extraordinary extent and our state-of-the-art virtual office environment allows effortless communications, collaboration, and knowledge sharing with other Progent consultants — all from home-based or mobile offices. Consultants don’t throw away time or forfeit income with regular commutes to a physical office, and all travel you do for on-site client work is determined by your schedule, not ours. The best part is that much of our consulting services can be done remotely, offering 100% productivity for income-producing hours. In fact, some Progent staff do off-site support exclusively.
Progent's business structure is set up for reacting quickly and effectively to client needs through information exchange and collaborative problem resolution. Although our engineers work with a high level of independence, resource allocation is unified, client issues and resolutions are meticulously monitored, recorded, and archived for easy reference, current engineer availability is broadcast to streamline team tasks and simplify problem escalation, and client approval is always monitored. We strengthen the feeling of connection through monthly team meetings and regular company-wide events.
Most of our team is located across California, but we are attracting a rapidly growing group of network professionals throughout the U.S. Our virtual office environment eliminates geographic obstacles that restrict the efficiency of conventional company structures. We enhance the deal by providing a comprehensive employee care program to ensure the health and financial security of our employees and their families.
Not only do we have world-class consulting professionals, our sales and operations teams live up to the excellence that characterizes Progent. These top-notch contributors to our growth are helping us to identify and land the scores of new customers we are now acquiring every month. Progent recently marked the providing of services to our 1,000th customer. Just type “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to check for yourself why we are also an effective marketing organization.
Possessing a commitment to technical excellence is a cornerstone for success with us. A career in consulting will push you to learn more than is possible in any other job in information technology. Being exposed to a steady stream of technical challenges is what keeps professional support exciting. Clients choose consulting firms to do the toughest jobs. Creative projects, advanced deployments, puzzling or entrenched issues, and tricky upgrades are the foundation for our services every day. With us, you will not stall or be pigeonholed, as is sadly typical for network engineers in traditional corporate roles. You will awake every day enthusiastic about the challenges to come.
On the way, you will meet some wonderful people, both by building close client relationships and by operating closely with other Progent team members, where you will learn from and add to their success. Of course, technology is important, but we are a relationship-oriented organization through and through. If you do not have excellent people skills or enjoy working with a varied group of personalities, then Progent is in all likelihood a poor match.
If this seems good to you, we urge you to contact Progent about our view of the new paradigm of network consulting.
Get Quality of Life Benefits and Technical Success with Our Advanced Virtual Office Infrastructure Progent believes that a carefully designed and executed network can be a pivotal factor for enabling any company's growth, and we follow this belief in our own network infrastructure. Progent has built a fault-tolerant virtual office infrastructure that allows our staff engineers and authorized contractors to offer rapid and efficient service, collaborate closely on complex projects, and gain from professional and private maturity by acting as a member of an exciting company ethos of self motivation and freedom.
Systems Management Server 2003 Consultant Services IT Consultants
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants offer small and medium size businesses enterprise-class consulting support for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003. Systems Management Server is Microsoft's solution for change and configuration management. SMS 2003, included in Microsoft System Center 200, allows companies to deliver critical applications rapidly and automatically to appropriate workers, reduce product costs and stay compliant by understanding usage profiles, improve Windows protection by improving your knowledge of vulnerability and by delivering targeted updates, manage your mobile workforce through industry standards independent of connection or geography, and lower operational expenses by efficiently exploiting the management functions incorporated into Windows. Progent’s SMS engineers can show you how to use SMS effectively for automated software and application installation, security patch control, and resource tracking management including program and appliance inventory.
Progent's Microsoft-authorized experts can help you rationalize the business justification for deploying Microsoft SharePoint 2007, consult with you on the most appropriate edition of SharePoint Server for your application, provide configuration and deployment expertise, help you to set up Microsoft SQL Server as a supporting database manager, optimize your network integrity, integrate your standard and customized application software to work with SharePoint Portal Server 2007, develop a comprehensive security strategy that encompasses portal technology, and provide maintenance and Help Desk support.
Progent's Symantec consultants can help you maintain earlier versions of Symantec Firewall and Symantec VPN appliances such as the Symantec Raptor and VelociRaptor line or help you migrate to more recent technology from Symantec or other vendors. Progent can also enable you to create and execute a comprehensive security strategy that can incorporate Firewall and VPN appliances and utilities, managed security and network protection services, system monitoring software, and documented policies and enforcement procedures. Progent has the expertise to be your one-stop resource for on-going network help, administration, training, and security consulting.
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can assist you you to calculate the advantages of Windows Server 2008 for your business, develop pilot systems and rollout plans, integrate Windows Server 2008 with your IT infrastructure and workload, train your support personnel how to run new management utilities, and provide continuing consulting and tech support via budget-friendly options such as Help Desk support and online technical support.
The server cluster technology incorporated into the high-end editions of Windows Server 2008 has been radically redesigned to streamline the installation, setup, and administration of server clusters that provide greater levels of network dependability, security, performance, and versatility. New or improved capabilities include automated cluster verification, easier configuration and deployment, unified cluster management, new cluster architecture for increased uptime, better protection and quorum models, elimination of failure points, greater storage and RAM capacity, and enhancements for multi-site clusters. Progent's clustered server consultants can help you assess the business benefits of Windows clustering, design and execute an installation, train your IT personnel to administer your failover clusters, provide continuing consulting and technical help services, and produce and test a business continuity plan.
Progent's Microsoft-certified support team offers computer help and information technology consulting services for Microsoft Operations Manager and for the expanding line of Application Management Packs that bring the power of MOM to a wide range of vital services. Progent supports MOM 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to bring small to mid-size business networks ultra-high availability, security and performance. Progent can show you how to benefit from Microsoft Operations Manager by providing needs analysis, deployment, configuration, customization, troubleshooting, Help Desk services, security planning, and management. With more than five years of experience with the NetIQ technology upon which MOM is based, Progent's network consulting experts can offer small businesses world-class expertise with MOM.
For medium-size businesses looking for network support, Progent can deliver a variety of options such as local help, on-line assistance, off-site Help Desk, round-the-clock support with automatic network monitoring, temporary staff augmentation, business relocation support, software development, and professional consultation. For medium-size companies in California or other areas covered by Progent's field engineers, Progent offers expert onsite help for fixing technical problems rapidly and economically.
Progent's Juniper Networks consultants can help you configure and support Juniper Firewalls and Juniper IPSec VPN appliances and Juniper Security Manager utilities for Juniper Netscreen Firewalls. In addition to providing integration services for
Juniper Firewalls and Juniper VPN products, Progent's CISSP qualified security consultants and CISM qualified professionals can show you how to develop a company-wide security plan and design security into your business processes.
Progent offers customers access to consultants who have been awarded some of the computer industry's most prized credentials. Progent believes that clients have the right to be sure that their computer service providers have formal training plus extensive real-world backgrounds so that Progent's customers can engage Progent's service with confidence. In many cases, vendor certifications like the Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts brings priority for significantly superior vendor help than is offered to uncertified consultants, enabling Progent to offer customers a higher level of IT support. In other cases, major certifications such as CISSP or ISSEP for IT security can aid enterprise clients to demonstrate compliance with regulatory demands by using the services of accredited IT experts.
Microsoft Great Plains software offers analysis and reporting features that allow you to track all business processes, sales and spending, and market patterns with integrated drill-down, inquiry, and reporting capabilities. Progent's Microsoft Great Plains reporting consulting services can enable you to create reports that let you analyze your business more thoroughly, turning uncooked data into useful management information. Progent is able to enhance your reporting and business analysis by providing Crystal Reports expertise, FRx help, and Microsoft Excel assistance. In addition to offering reporting help, Progent can provide Microsoft .NET support, Microsoft SQL Server expertise, and application design with VBasic, XML and other tools in order to deliver custom line-of-business software development and web commerce solutions that work seamlessly with Microsoft GP.
Progent can show you how to plan a viable WiFi architecture, select sensible technology, and integrate wireless access points, 802.11 network adapters, bridges, antennas and other wireless accessories. Progent can also show you how to create a complete 802.11 wireless network security strategy that is well aligned with the security strategy for your entire corporate network.
Progent can help you to plan and execute an efficient migration from a UNIX-powered information system to a network based on Windows and suited for supporting Microsoft's familiar office productivity products, business applications, and software development tools. Progent's UNIX, Windows and Cisco consultants and software development experts can assist you to preserve your information and reduce productivity disruption by developing an effective migration strategy that preserves your existing assets in UNIX application and infrastructure. UNIX-to-Windows migration support services available from Progent include analysis of current infrastructure, transition planning and testing, Exchange migration services, information and application transition, and processor and media transition and consolidation.
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants offer a range of support services for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 is a Microsoft accounting platform and business management solution built, like all Microsoft financial solutions, on the expandable and popular foundation of Microsoft Windows technology. Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains 10.0, the latest version of Microsoft accounting products in the Great Plains Accounting family, offers a cost-effective tool for managing and combining finances, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, field service, customer relationships, and HR. Microsoft Dynamics GP is simple to deploy and integrate, and with its modular design you can license only the capability you currently require, with the option to expand users and enlarge functionality when necessary. Progent’s Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Software consulting experts can show you how to deploy, configure and manage Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 and also older editions of Great Plains including Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 and Microsoft Great Plains 8.0.
ISA 2006 is a comprehensive edge gateway that provides a powerful application layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN), proxy, and Web caching solution for protecting the Internet-facing applications of any organization against a wide range of attacks. Progent's Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server support professionals can help you plan, rationalize, pilot, implement, configure and support the any edition of ISA Server on your information system.
