Full-time and Contract Opportunities at Progent Jobs for Senior Network Professionals, Computer Service Technicians, CISSP Certified Consultants, and Application Programmers
Among the premiere computer consultant companies for small business networks, Progent maintains a large staff of talented service experts who focus on mainstream technologies including:
Microsoft Windows products
Cisco Integrated Services Routers, switches, PIX firewalls, plus VoIP and VPN products
Network security analysis
Advanced network architecture
Remote troubleshooting and network administration
Our Experts Group, which contracts independent consultants qualified and coordinated by Progent, provides exceptionally refined knowledge covering a wide variety of key business applications and networking solutions that include:
Macintosh networking and applications
Expertise for Linux, UNIX, and Sun Solaris environments
Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project logistics services
Special applications design and integration
Web site, electronic business, Electronic Data Interchange, and client information portal development and deployment
DBM support and performance help
Business intelligence expertise
Telecom systems support
Innovative models for attracting clients, providing support, maintaining an efficient working environment, and offering generous profit sharing have allowed us to be among the most rapidly expanding and most well recognized Microsoft Gold Partners consultant firms in the United States and to establish an international organization for providing remote IT expertise. If you are a certified computer support professional or information technology expert with an orientation towards a client service and excellent people skills, consultants will discover Progent an opportunity for enhancing your technical knowledge, living a more rewarding career, and achieving economic success.
Learn Additional Information About Working at Progent
Follow these links to learn additional information about our job opportunities, company philosophy, operational conditions, profit sharing structure, and benefits:
Full-time Work at Progent
We are looking for a variety of full-time workers including solutions-driven Microsoft MCSE and MCP computer engineers; system consultants with Cisco CCIE certification; and specialists in advanced network architecture with backgrounds in mobile connectivity, wireless integration, high-availability systems, business continuity solutions, data preservation, and server virtualization. Progent is also looking for desktop support experts, off-site service specialists, and CISSP or CISA certified security professionals. Progent is also seeking experienced managers and administrators who can perform effectively in Progent's dynamic, virtual office model. Learn additional information about full-time professional services positions at Progent by going to Full-time Careers at Progent.
Contract Opportunities at Progent
Progent contracts independent consultants with in-depth knowledge and field background in important information technology topics outside Progent's main technical focus. Progent's Experts Group employs independent consultants who offer advice and development support for mission-critical applications that include Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management; have specialized knowledge of non-Microsoft platforms such as Linux, Apple OS, or Sun, or can provide expert skills in areas such as telecom, web site development, Electronic Data Interchange, web commerce, or database management. Independent contractors qualified by us coordinate with Progent's in-house consultants to provide comprehensive solutions for small business networks. In order to learn additional information concerning contracting work with Progent's Experts Team, go to Freelance Opportunities with Progent.
Reasons That We Are Unique
We have been able to recruit the best consulting talent by being different. With an innovative mix of entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to customer satisfaction, utilization of state-of-the-art technical tools, and an independent work model that accommodates life-style choices for Progent's consulting team, Progent offers a dynamic culture for select consultants who have a desire for rapidly enhancing their professional abilities to create concrete solutions for a range of businesses and network environments. Find out additional details about how Progent is exceptional by visiting How We Are Unique.
Our Virtual Office Network
Our virtual office environment provides state-of-the-art technologies that allow off-site support, wireless communication, convenient availability of Progent's knowledge bases, and close cooperation with mobile team members to allow you to handle challenging IT issues. Progent's virtual office network frees consultants to focus on providing IT solutions rather than dealing with commutes and lets you build successful customer relationships by permitting you to provide quick, viable, and cost-effective solutions. To find out more details concerning our virtual office work environment, visit Progent virtual Office Infrastructure.
Compensation and Benefit Packages
Progent's compensation is determined by revenue sharing. What you earn is directly based on the revenue you contribute. Consultants have the choice of focusing on life style and electing to work at an easy pace, utilizing Progent's versatile schedule to follow individual pursuits, or you can use the opportunity to make considerable income through hard work and lots of hours. Progent also provides complete family health care coverage plus numerous additional benefits. Learn additional details about Progent's compensation model and benefit programs by referring to Our Compensation Model and Benefit Packages.
Jobs at Progent Questions and Answers
To see answers to common questions about being employed by Progent, see Working with Progent FAQs.
Here is a list of Progent's present job openings:
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Operations Administrator Job
Progent is seeking a motivated individual for the work-at-home role of Operations Administrator to assist the Director of Operations with the daily management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in performing expense and asset management responsibilities for a small, quickly growing business.
Information Technology Recruitment Manager Job
Progent has an opening for a senior administrator tasked with hiring IT experts to join Progent's group of computer support specialists who provide IT outsourcing and engineering consulting assistance to clients worldwide.
Market Development Manager Jobs
The Business Development Representative is a top level sales executive charged with selling Progent's wide array of IT outsourcing and support services and functioning as the primary client liaison. The Business Development Representative is a key part of the executive group, operating closely with the CEO and Directors and Managers to ensure that business goals are accomplished and that the highest level of services are provided to our customers.
Desktop Support Expert Jobs
Progent is seeking a Desktop Engineer to assist Progent customers to help all workers using desktop and laptop PCs powered by Microsoft Windows 2K, Windows Vista, and XP platforms. Work collaboratively with client's management or IT staff or under the direction of a Progent Senior Consultant to help the client’s workers.
Senior Remote Support Expert Job
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Support Engineer to work with a variety of Progent's customers to manage and support computer networks off-site, utilizing state-of-the-art technology including MS Windows 2K/2003 and the MS .NET product family.
Senior Online Network Support Engineer Jobs in Australia
Progent is seeking a Senior Remote Support Specialist in Australia to assist a range of international customers to maintain and repair information networks via telephone or remote access.
Certified Cisco Consultant Jobs
Progent is looking for a Senior Cisco Consultant with Cisco CCIE, CCNP, or CCNA credentials to work with Progent's staff of professionals to help customers to plan, implement, manage, and repair IT networks that incorporate Cisco technology.
Certified Security Consultant Jobs
Progent is seeking a Certified Security Engineer with CISSP or similar security credentials to join Progent's team of professionals to provide small businesses a full range of security consulting such as system security evaluation, security testing, security strategy, remote monitoring, security architecture, access management systems expertise, operations security, and business continuity planning.
If you want to ask about any opening listed above, you should e-mail your resume to jobs@progent.com. Please state the code numbers of the jobs that interest you.
Additional Facts About Jobs at Progent
Staff Jobs for Network Engineers, Computer Support Specialists, Security Experts, and Remote Help Technicians Progent wants to hire staff-level, solutions-oriented Microsoft certified engineers with MCSE or MCP certification; Cisco certified network consultants who have CCIE credentials; security consultants with CISSP, CISM, or CISA or comparable security certification; and high-end network design experts with experience in mobile access, wireless networking, high availability, disaster recovery, information preservation, and virtual servers. Progent also is looking for professionals to join our staff of helpdesk support specialists and off-site troubleshooting professionals. In addition, We are hiring talented administrators able to perform effectively in our fast-paced, virtual office culture.
By maintaining a staff of talented and dedicated professionals, delivering attentive client care, and offering a strong value-focused pricing model, We have managed to increase our customer list rapidly while delivering professional services to hundreds of businesses in the San Francisco area and across the U.S. An advanced virtual office environment, a shared knowledge database, and a team strategy for problem resolution have helped Progent to maintain a talented staff and a loyal customer list.
If you are a network professional with troubleshooting expertise, teaming with Progent or working for our customers can enhance your knowledge via interaction with our group of mutually team-oriented, talented consultants. Progent's focus on providing network consulting and technical help to small and midsize organizations will give you the chance to collaborate closely with key players and add appreciably to the growth of dynamic companies.
We are looking for consultants who have recognized credentials related to their special expertise. So, if you are a Microsoft consultant, you must have earned your MCSE certificate. In the case of Cisco experts, have your CCIE or CCNP credential. For network security, you should have earned you CISSP, CISA, CISM, or other top security credentials. Naturally, we are familiar with “paper MCSEs.” Notwithstanding, the fact that a certificate can not guarantee expertise is no reason for not having one. If you have mastered your stuff, then the majority of those certifications should pose no great difficulty. The point is that if you call yourself a professional, then clients expect credentials. Progent will promote your talents, but you must have basic certifications for Progent to market. In case you are adamantly opposed to the idea of certifications, Progent can understand and respect your opinion, but you are likely not a good fit.
Freelance Jobs for Certified Application Specialists for Windows, Apple OS, Linux/UNIX, and Sun Technology For more than 20 years, our information technology professionals have provided low-cost and effective computer support services for small businesses in Northern California and throughout the United States. An advanced virtual office network, a shared support database, and a collaborative philosophy for problem resolution have helped Progent to retain a strong consulting group and dramatically expand a satisfied client base.
The Experts Group is Progent's way to offer clients the services of expert computer support engineers who have advanced knowledge and work experience in important areas outside of Progent's primary focus in network infrastructure and security. Experts Team consultants are often independent engineers and sometimes "moonlighters" who have been carefully certified by Progent to collaborate with our staff consultants to deliver comprehensive, world-class network solutions to small businesses. We are always expanding the Experts Group to address the special requirements of our clients.
Progent's Experts Group currently offers consulting in these areas:
Apple OS integration and applications
Support for Linux-based, UNIX, and Sun Solaris environments
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM consulting
Mission-critical and vertical application help
Chief Information Officer, management information analyst, and project management outsourcing
Custom applications design and deployment
Web site, electronic business, EDI, and customer information portal design and integration
DBM management and efficiency help
Management intelligence consulting
Telecom architecture support
Benefits of becoming part of Progent's Experts Team include:
By associating with us, you can take advantage of the impact of our dramatic expansion and excellent reputation in the marketplace. By having a group of talented and dedicated professionals, offering excellent client care, and practicing a strong, ROI-oriented pricing structure, we have multiplied our clientele during the last several years and Progent now delivers consulting support to hundreds of companies in Northern California and throughout the United States.
Progent's veteran marketing team handles all facets of promoting your services and areas of expertise into our rapidly growing customer base, so you expend less time finding customers and extra time generating revenue.
Progent will facilitate relationship building between you and our key group of expert Microsoft and Cisco qualified consultants who are the conduit to the key executives among Progent's clients.
Our selling and operations teams will take care of the complete selling and engagement cycle, from opportunity identification, job qualification, client requirements description, skills matching, project analysis proposal writing, agreement negotiation and generation. Your entire focus stays with delivering high-level consulting service.
We will provide you connections to our sophisticated virtual office infrastructure, including professional conference locations throughout Northern California, as well as Internet and telecomm access anywhere in the United States.
You will have access to our extensive database, best practices processes, library of professional publications, and the shared expertise from one of the country's largest pool of experienced information technology engineers.
Progent will pass on special benefits from top vendors including Microsoft and Cisco, including free ordiscounted training classes, web access to restricted vendor troubleshooting tools and technical maintenance resources, and on-line internal use software for education or demonstration use.
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 become a member of our Experts Group, but Progent has the following qualifications to join:
You should show a strong background as a consulting professional working on your own in your field of specialization, including a minimum two year record of completed contracting jobs and/or have an active customer base for which you now deliver ongoing consulting services.
You must show that you have expertise in your area of concentration, which includes having a long work-related history and excellent referrals, and have current vendor or institutional professional qualifications.
You should be able to present yourself in a professional manner and be self motivated and assured in your skills. You need to have excellent people skills and be able to work efficiently alone or as a member of a team.
You must know how to communicate proper goals to customers and other Progent team members and you need to be able scope out tasks, produce task plans, and estimate reasonable time lines.
Enhance Your Abilities with the Best Technology and Working with the Top Group of Network Consultants Progent's work environment will allow you to become a better consulting professional by enhancing your technical skills and increasing the loyalty of your customers. Progent delivers on this promise by recruiting the best professional experts for you to operate with, providing a state-of-the-art system architecture, running proprietary application tools to enable the maximum level of support, and by optimizing our business models for finding and maintaining clients.
The decisive factor that distinguishes us from ordinary consulting firms is the excellence of our consulting team. Among the scores of consulting experts who have teamed with us, we have assembled the best expertise across a wide range of technical areas. Whether it’s Microsoft Windows, Cisco firewalls, network security, Apple, Linux/UNIX, virtual servers, or other key areas, we engage experts who can enable you to be effective on larger jobs by leveraging the aggregate experience of our team of professionals.
To ensure the productivity of Progent's team, we invest significantly in providing the most powerful tools to perform the work efficiently. We will leverage information technology to an extraordinary extent and our state-of-the-art virtual office environment allows seamless communications, cooperation, and information exchange with fellow Progent consultants — all from at-home or on-the-road offices. Consultants don’t throw away time or forfeit income with daily drives to a conventional office, and all driving you do for in-person customer jobs is based on your schedule, not ours. The best benefit is that most of Progent's consulting services can be done off-site, offering maximum productivity for income-producing hours. In practice, some of our staff do remote consulting only.
Our operations are geared towards responding rapidly and efficiently to client needs via information exchange and collaborative problem solving. Although our consultants operate with a great deal of freedom, resource allocation is unified, customer issues and solutions are meticulously tracked, recorded, and archived for easy retrieval, up-to-date engineer availability is published to facilitate group projects and simplify problem escalation, and client satisfaction is continually evaluated. We strengthen the sense of cooperation via monthly team meetings and regular company-wide events.
The majority of Progent's consultants are situated across Northern California, however we are building a rapidly expanding group of consulting professionals throughout the U.S. Our virtual office infrastructure eliminates geographic boundaries that restrict the productivity of traditional company models. We enhance the package by offering a full benefit plan to ensure the health and financial welfare of our employees and their relations.
Just as we have world-class consultants, our sales and operations teams match the excellence that defines Progent. These high-performance factors behind our success are enabling us to target and land the scores of new clients we are currently engaging each month. We recently marked the delivery of support to our 1,000th customer. Try typing “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to see for yourself why Progent is also a strong sales organization.
Having a commitment to technical excellence is a key for success with Progent. A career in consulting will drive you to enhance your skills more than you would in any other position in information technology. Being confronted by a steady series of technical challenges is what makes professional support interesting. Customers rely on a consultant to do the “hard stuff.” Creative tasks, advanced deployments, puzzling or entrenched issues, and difficult migrations are the basis for our services every day. At Progent, you will not stagnate or be pigeonholed, as is all too typical for network professionals in ordinary corporate jobs. You will wake up every day enthusiastic about the opportunities to come.
On the way, you will meet some wonderful people, both by building close customer relationships and by working closely with other Progent team members, where you will benefit from and add to their growth. Yes, technology is important, but Progent is a relationship-oriented company through and through. If you don’t offer excellent people skills or enjoy working with a diverse group of personalities, then we are probably not a good fit.
If all this seems right for you, we invite you to contact Progent about our view of the new paradigm of information technology consulting.
Get Quality of Life Benefits and Professional Prowess with Progent's Sophisticated Virtual Office Infrastructure Progent believes that a carefully architected and implemented network can be a crucial factor for accelerating any firm's growth, and Progent follows this belief in our own network environment. We have built a non-stop virtual office network that enables Progent's staff engineers and certified contractors to offer rapid and effective service, collaborate closely on sophisticated projects, and experience professional and personal maturity by being a member of an exciting company ethos of self motivation and independence.
If your business network combines Sun Solaris technology with Windows, Progent can help you to incorporate your IT resources into a cohesive environment that permits all your OS platforms to coexist for easy administration, transparent information exchange, high availability, superior performance, and tight security. Progent's Solaris and Microsoft Windows integration assistance offerings feature network infrastructure configuration and service, support for Microsoft Windows services for UNIX (SFU), remote server monitoring and administration, online network help and repair, in-person technical support, and help desk call center outsourcing.
If your company has a UNIX or Linux environment or a multi-OS computer system, Progent's CISA and CISSP-qualified consultants can assist your whole enterprise in a wide array of security topics including security administration practices, security architecture and models, access management products and techniques, software development security, business processes security, physical security, communications, infrastructure and web security, and business continuity preparedness. CISA and CISSP define the basic competencies and international standards of knowledge that information security professionals are expected to master. These certification offer executive management the confidence that those who have achieved their CISM or CISSP certification have demonstrated the experience and theory to offer effective security management and engineering services.
Microsoft Great Plains software offers analytics and reporting capabilities that allow you to monitor all business processes, sales and expenses, and market patterns with built-in drill-down, query, and reporting capabilities. Progent's Microsoft GP reporting support expertise can help you design reports that allow you to understand your business more thoroughly, turning uncooked data into useful management information. Progent can improve your reporting and analytics by offering Crystal Reports expertise, FRx support, and Microsoft Excel programming. In addition to offering reporting help, Progent can supply Microsoft .NET support, Microsoft SQL Server expertise, and application experience with VBasic, XML and other tools in order to deliver custom line-of-business software development and web commerce solutions that integrate transparently with Microsoft Great Plains.
Progent's Linux support experts provide small companies and software developers support for managing and maintaining Linux computers that operate with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent offers your business access to Linux experts, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISSP credentials. This broad array of experience provides you with a convenient one-stop consulting firm to help you build and manage a protected and robust cross-platform network and communications environment that allows Linux and Microsoft coexistence by combining MS Windows with leading Linux platforms including RedHat Linux, SUSE Linux, Mandrake, Debian-GNU, and Slackware Linux.
Progent offers clients access to consultants who have been awarded some of the IT industry's most prized certifications. Progent believes that clients have the right to know that their IT support providers have formal testing plus broad real-world experience so that Progent's clients can engage Progent's service with confidence. In many cases, vendor credentials like the Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts brings privileges for significantly better vendor help than is offered to non-certified consultants, enabling Progent to offer customers a better class of IT service. In addition, recognized credentials such as CISSP or ISSEP for IT security can help enterprise customers to demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements by using the services of recognized IT professionals.
Progent's CISSP qualified security experts, or Certified Information Systems Security Professionals, are experts who have been awarded CISSP status through rigorous study and thorough examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include Security Administration Procedures, Security Design and Models, Connection Permission Methodology, Software Development Security, Business Processes Security, Physical Security, Encryption, Communications, Internet Security, and Disaster Recovery Planning.
Broadwing Communications is the first carrier to deploy an all-optically switched network delivering low latency and maximum performance. Broadwing offers a wide selection of data transports such as Broadwing Full T1, Point-to-Point T1, T3, DSL, ISDN PRI, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode. Broadwing also offers VoIP service plus switched and dedicated voice long distance. Progent has an agent relationship with Broadwing Communications and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Cisco Systems Partner with the expertise to help you integrate Broadwing Communications data/voice services to create an enterprise-class, cohesive communications infrastructure on a down-to-earth budget.
Progent’s Cisco-qualified technology experts provide professional PIX Firewall support services covering architecture, integration and maintenance of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The Cisco PIX 500 Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls offers strong user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector threat security, and secure access services. Ranging from small, easy-to-install desktop devices for small offices and home offices to scalable gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX firewalls offer a sensible level of security, performance and reliability for business environments of all sizes. PIX firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed platform, PIX OS, avoiding potential OS-specific security vulnerabilities. The Cisco PIX Firewall has received ICSA Firewall and IPsec certification plus Common Criteria EAL4 evaluation status. PIX firewalls deliver multiple integrated security and connectivity services, including advanced application-aware firewall services, Voice over IP and digital media security, site-to-site and remote-access IPSec VPN connectivity, intelligent networking services, and flexible management solutions. Progent’s network consultants can show you how to choose and deploy any Cisco PIX 500 Series firewalls such as the Cisco PIX 501 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506E, PIX 515 Firewalls, the PIX 515E Firewall, the Cisco PIX 520 Firewall, Cisco PIX 525 Firewalls and the Cisco PIX 535.
Progent is seeking to hire staff-level, results-driven Microsoft certified consultants with MCSE credentials; Cisco certified system engineers with Cisco CCNP or CCIE certification; security consultants who have CISSP or CISM or comparable security certification; and advanced system design consultants with a background in mobile access, wireless connectivity, high availability, business continuity, information preservation, and VMware. Progent also seeks employees who can join our staff of help desk service technicians and remote troubleshooting professionals. In addition, Progent is seeking talented managers who can perform effectively in Progent's fast-paced, virtual office environment.
Systems Management Server 2003 provides added capability for change and configuration management of Windows-based networks through SMS Feature Packs. Feature Packs lower the overall administrative costs of managing and deploying software products by making it simpler to install system images, manage mobile computers, and run management tools. In addition to alerting you about ways to cut management costs by deploying Microsoft SMS 2003 Feature Packs, Progent's consulting experts can help you plan and perform IT projects involving processes that Feature Packs are intended to make more efficient. Progent's migration and upgrade services can lower spending and eliminate business disruption as you move to new operating systems and programs. Progent's wireless engineers can help you develop efficient processes and policies to manage handheld computers and smart mobile communication devices so your mobile workforce stays efficient and secure. Progent's CISSP-certified consultants and CISM-certified security experts can help you design a security plan that includes policies, procedures and IT products to keep your IT computer system protected.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consulting experts have broad experience creating corporate security solutions for IT networks with multiple sites, remote workers, and mission-critical web-based applications. A Progent ISA Server consultant can help your small business plan and implement a configuration of Microsoft ISA Server 2004 that meets your IT protection needs without restricting your network.
Progent’s Wireless Consulting Services offer a convenient, economical option for small business IT systems to incorporate the latest wireless connectivity technology. Few small organizations have internal computer staffs with the time to keep current on the fast-changing world of wireless products and services, and even fewer have the hands-on experience to cut through the hyperbole and select and integrate the optimal solutions for Wi-Fi wireless LAN (WLAN), mobile connectivity, and small business wireless security. For 802.11 WiFi environments, Progent can show you how to design and install 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g compatible wireless link hardware such as the Cisco Aironet wireless access point. Progent can also show you how to incorporate an appropriate level of 802.11x security. For wireless email and wireless Internet programs for mobile users, Progent supports devices such as the Research In Motion Blackberry (RIM Blackberry) for wireless email, as well as wireless PDAs, smartphones, and Pocket PCs powered by Windows Mobile operating systems with Activesync. Progent’s expertise with the Proxim Tsunami wireless bridge can help you to test11:10 AM 6/27/2006 and install building-to-building wireless connectivity.
