Full-time and Freelance Openings at Progent Work for Senior Network Engineers, Help Desk Service Technicians, Systems Security Consultants, and Application Developers
One of the premiere network consultant firms for small business networks, Progent manages a large team of certified support experts who focus on core IT areas including:
Microsoft Windows technology
Cisco routers, Catalyst switches, PIX firewalls, plus Voice over IP and VPN products
Network security expertise
Sophisticated connectivity architecture
Remote IT support and network administration
Our Experts Group, which contracts independent experts certified and managed by Progent, provides exceptionally refined knowledge covering a wide variety of key software areas and networking technologies that include:
Apple OS networking and applications
Consulting for Linux-based, UNIX-based, and Sun environments
Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project logistics outsourcing
Special program design and deployment
Web, electronic business, Electronic Data Interchange, and customer information portal design and deployment
Database management and performance consulting
Management intelligence expertise
Telecom systems consulting
Innovative models for finding customers, delivering service, maintaining an efficient working environment, and providing highly competitive compensation and benefits have enabled Progent to become among the most rapidly expanding and best recognized Microsoft Gold Partners consultant firms in the United States and to build a worldwide organization for delivering remote IT assistance. If you are an accredited computer technician or information technology consultant with a drive for a customer success and strong communication skills, consultants will find in Progent an opportunity for adding to your professional knowledge, living a more rewarding lifestyle, and achieving financial success.
Find Out More Information About Jobs with Progent
Follow these links to learn additional details concerning Progent's work opportunities, business culture, work conditions, compensation model, and benefits packages:
Consulting Work at Progent
Progent is looking for a variety of on-staff employees such as motivated Microsoft MCSE, MCSA, and MCP computer engineers; connectivity consultants with Cisco CCIE, CCNP, or CCNA certification; and consultants for advanced system architecture with backgrounds in mobile connectivity, wireless integration, high-availability environments, disaster recovery planning, data preservation, and server virtualization. We are also seeking workstation support technicians, remote troubleshooting professionals, and CISM or CISSP accredited security consultants. We are also hiring veteran managers who can perform effectively in our high-growth, virtual office environment. Find out additional details concerning staff consulting work at Progent by visiting Full-time Jobs at Progent.
Contracting Work at Progent
Progent works with freelance professionals who have proven knowledge and field background in crucial information technology areas beyond Progent's main technical focus. Our Experts Team includes contractors who can provide consulting and development services for mission-critical solutions such as MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management; have in-depth knowledge of popular platforms such as Linux, Apple OS, or Solaris, or offer world-class skills in technologies such as telecommunications, web site design, Electronic Data Interchange, web commerce, or database management. Freelance consultants certified by us cooperate with Progent's in-house consultants to provide comprehensive IT services for small and midsize company networks. If you want to find out more information about contract opportunities with Progent's Experts Consulting Group, go to Contracting Jobs with Progent.
Reasons That Progent Is Unique
We have been able to recruit the best professional talent by being different. With an innovative mix of entrepreneurial spirit, insistence on client success, use of state-of-the-art technical tools, plus a flexible business structure that allows for quality-of-life choices for Progent's team members, Progent creates a dynamic environment for select individuals who posses a desire for quickly improving their technical abilities to deliver concrete solutions for a variety of businesses and network environments. Find out additional details concerning how we are different by visiting Reasons That Progent Is Different.
Progent's Virtual Office Infrastructure
Progent's virtual office model provides sophisticated technical tools that enable off-site access, wireless connectivity, convenient access to our support databases, and instant collaboration with talented colleagues to allow you to deal with business-critical network issues. Progent's virtual office structure enables consultants to focus on delivering IT solutions rather than dealing with commutes and helps you establish successful customer relationships by permitting you to come up with fast, viable, and cost-effective solutions. To learn more information about Progent's virtual office infrastructure, go to Progent virtual Office Business Model.
Compensation and Benefit Packages
Our compensation is based on revenue sharing. The money you earn is directly based on the revenue you generate. You have the option of concentrating on quality of life and choosing to consult at an easy pace, utilizing our flexible schedule to make time for individual pursuits, or you can use the opportunity to make significant income through persistent effort and lots of consulting time. Progent also provides complete family health coverage as well as many additional benefits. Find out additional details concerning Progent's compensation model and benefit programs by going to Our Compensation Model and Benefit Packages.
Employment at Progent Frequently Asked Questions
To see replies to frequent questions concerning becoming employed by Progent, refer to Working with Progent Q&A.
The following is a description of Progent's available job openings:
Job Code
Description
A09
Operations Administrator Position
Progent is seeking a talented 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 handling A/P and asset management responsibilities for a small, rapidly expanding company.
Information Technology Hiring Manager Job
Progent is looking for an experienced administrator tasked with recruiting IT experts to work with Progent's group of computer support specialists who provide IT outsourcing and network consulting assistance to customers worldwide.
Market Development Manager Jobs
The Business Development Representative is a top level sales manager charged with selling Progent's broad array of IT outsourcing and consulting services and acting as the front-line client liaison. The Business Development Representative is a key part of the management team, operating closely with the CEO and Directors and Managers to ensure that corporate goals are accomplished and that top notch services are delivered to Progent's customers.
Senior IT Consultant, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Job
Progent is looking for an experienced, MCSE support professional to join Progent's core team of consulting professionals. You must have communication skills plus technical expertise and must be solutions oriented.
Desktop Support Expert Job
Progent is seeking a Desktop Engineer to help Progent customers to help all users of desktop and laptop PCs powered by MS Windows 2K, Vista, and Windows XP platforms. Work closely with client's management or IT organization or under the supervision of a Progent Senior Consultant to help the client’s employees.
Senior Remote Support Expert Job
Progent is looking for a Senior Remote Support Specialist to work with a range of small business customers to manage and service information systems remotely, using state-of-the-art technology including Microsoft Windows 2K/2003 and Microsoft's .NET platform.
Senior Remote Technical Support Engineer Jobs in Australia
Progent is looking for a Senior Online Network Support Specialist in Australia to assist a range of international customers to manage and repair computer networks by phone or remote access.
Certified Cisco Engineer Jobs
Progent is seeking a Senior Cisco Consultant with Cisco CCIE or CCNP certification to work with Progent's team of experts to help customers to plan, integrate, manage, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate Cisco technology.
Certified Security Engineer Jobs
Progent is seeking a Certified Security Engineer with CISSP, CISM, or CISA or equivalent security credentials to join Progent's team of experts to offer small businesses a full range of security consulting such as system security evaluation, penetration testing, security strategy, network monitoring, security modeling, access control solutions expertise, business processes security, and disaster recovery planning.
If you would like to enquire about any opening listed above, please e-mail your resume to jobs@progent.com. Please include the code numbers of the positions that interest you.
More Information About Work with Us
Staff Jobs for Network Consultants, Desktop Support Specialists, Security Experts, and Online Support Professionals Progent wants to hire full-time, results-oriented Microsoft accredited engineers with Microsoft MCSE or MCSA credentials; Cisco certified network consultants who have Cisco CCIE credentials; security professionals who have CISSP, CISM, or CISA or equivalent security credentials; and advanced network architecture experts with experience in mobile solutions, wireless connectivity, high availability, disaster recovery, data protection, and server virtualization. Progent also seeks professionals who can work on our team of desktop support specialists and remote troubleshooting professionals. In addition, Progent is seeking talented managers who can perform productively in our fast-paced, virtual office culture.
By supporting a team of talented and dedicated professionals, delivering world-class client care, and following a competitive results-focused pricing structure, We have been able to expand our client list dramatically while providing professional services to numerous businesses in the San Francisco area and throughout the United States. A sophisticated virtual office environment, a common knowledge base, and a team strategy for problem resolution have allowed Progent to retain a talented staff and a satisfied customer base.
For an information technology consultant with technical support experience, joining Progent or working for Progent's customers will enhance your skills through cooperation with Progent's group of highly supportive, talented consultants. Our commitment to delivering information technology consulting and computer support to small and midsize companies will give you the opportunity to work intimately with decision makers and add appreciably to the growth of dynamic companies.
Progent is looking for consultants that have recognized credentials in their technical focus. So, if you are a Microsoft consultant, you should have earned your MCSE certificate. In the case of Cisco consultants, show us your CCIE or CCNP credential. For security, you should have earned you CISSP, CISA, CISM, or one of the other leading security certifications. Of course, Progent is aware of "paper experts". However, the fact that a certificate does not guarantee excellence is no reason for not having one. If you know your stuff, then most of those certifications should present no challenge. The bottom line is that if you call yourself an expert, then clients deserve to see credentials. We will broadcast your skills, but you need to have basic certifications for us to market. In case you are strongly opposed to the idea of credentials, we can understand and respect your opinion, but you are likely not a good candidate.
Contract Jobs for Certified Application Specialists for Windows, Apple OS, Linux-based, and Sun Solaris Technology For over two decades, Progent's information technology engineers have offered affordable and effective network consulting expertise for small businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the United States. A sophisticated virtual office network, a common technical database, and a team philosophy for problem solving have helped us to retain a talented in-house team and quickly grow a loyal clientele.
The Experts Group is our way to provide customers the help of specialized information technology consulting professionals who have advanced skills and field background in important technologies outside of our primary focus in system infrastructure and security. Experts Team members are often freelance engineers and sometimes "moonlighters" who are thoroughly certified by us to collaborate with our in-house engineers to provide end-to-end, world-class network services to small businesses. Progent is always expanding the Experts Group to meet the particular requirements of our customer base.
Our Experts Group now provides consulting in these areas:
Apple OS integration and programs
Expertise for Linux, UNIX-based, and Sun Solaris systems
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management customization
Line-of-business and specialized program help
CIO, business analyst, and project logistics outsourcing
Special program development and deployment
Web site, electronic business, Electronic Data Interchange, and customer portal design and integration
DBM management and efficiency help
Management information consulting
Telecom systems consulting
Advantages of becoming part of Our Experts Group include:
By working with Progent, you get to benefit from the impact of Progent's explosive expansion and excellent reputation in the marketplace. By maintaining a team of skilled and committed consultants, providing attentive customer support, and practicing a proven, value-oriented billing model, we have multiplied our clientele during the past few years and Progent currently provides professoinal support to hundreds of companies in California and throughout the United States.
Our experienced marketing staff takes care of all aspects of promoting your services and areas of knowledge into our quickly expanding customer base, so you expend less effort finding clients and more time generating revenue.
Progent will assist in relationship building between you and our key team of expert Microsoft and Cisco certified engineers who are the gateway to the key executives among our clients.
Our selling and administration teams will manage the entire selling and contracting cycle, from lead generation, job approval, customer needs definition, capabilities matching, project analysis proposal writing, agreement negotiation and generation. Your entire responsibility is on providing high-level consulting service.
Progent will gives you access to Progent's sophisticated virtual office infrastructure, offering professional meeting/work sites throughout the San Francisco area, as well as Internet and telecomm connectivity anywhere in the U.S.
You will have the benefit of Progent's vast database, best practices procedures, abundance of template-deliverable documents, and the aggregate experience from one of the country's largest independent groups of experienced information technology professionals.
Progent will pass on partner-only benefits from leading technology companies such as Microsoft and Cisco, including no-cost ordiscounted educational seminars, on-line access to special vendor troubleshooting utilities and product maintenance resources, and downloadable in-house use software for training and/or sales 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 not any cost to be part of Progent's Experts Team, but Progent has the following qualifications for membership:
You must have a strong track record as a consulting professional operating on your own in your area of specialization, including at least a two year record of successful consulting jobs or you must have your own active customer base for whom you now deliver ongoing support services.
You have to demonstrate that you are an expert in your field of specialization, which includes having an extensive work-related record and strong references, and possess up-to-date vendor or institutional professional certifications.
You should be able to present yourself in a professional manner and be self driven and assured in your skills. You must have strong communications skills and be able to work efficiently by yourself or as part of a team.
You need to be able to explain proper goals to clients and fellow Progent team members and you should know how scope out jobs, create project plans, and estimate realistic work schedules.
Improve Your Abilities with Advanced Technology and Joining a Great Team of Network Consultants Progent's business climate will allow you to become a more capable consulting professional by improving your information technology skills and increasing the loyalty of your clients. Progent makes good on this commitment by attracting the top professional talent for you to work with, offering an advanced system architecture, using proprietary application tools to enable the highest level of support, and by optimizing proven operational structures for attracting and keeping customers.
The most important factor that differentiates Progent from other network support firms is the high caliber of our consulting team. Out of the scores of consulting experts who have teamed with us, we have recruited top talent covering a wide array of technical areas. Be it Microsoft servers, Cisco switches, network security, Mac, Linux/UNIX, server virtualization, or other key technologies, we engage professionals who can enable you to be successful on major jobs by combining the aggregate experience of our team of experts.
To ensure the success of our team, we invest significantly in providing the best tools to perform the job efficiently. Progent will exploit information technology to an impressive extent and our state-of-the-art virtual office environment enables seamless connectivity, cooperation, and information exchange with other Progent team members — all from at-home or on-the-road offices. Consultants don’t throw away time or forfeit revenue because of daily commutes to a physical office, and any driving you do for in-person customer jobs is based on your own time table, not ours. The best part is that most of our support services can be done off-site, offering maximum productivity for billable hours. In fact, some Progent team members do off-site support only.
Our operations are set up for reacting rapidly and efficiently to client needs via information sharing and cooperative problem solving. Although Progent's consultants operate with a high level of freedom, resource allocation is unified, client issues and resolutions are carefully tracked, recorded, and organized for easy retrieval, up-to-date engineer schedules are broadcast to streamline group tasks and simplify trouble escalation, and customer approval is continually evaluated. We reinforce the sense of connection via periodic workgroup meetings and quarterly corporate events.
Most of Progent's consultants are situated throughout California, but Progent is attracting a quickly growing group of network professionals from across the United States. Our virtual office environment does away with regional boundaries that limit the productivity of conventional company models. We enhance the package by providing a full employee care plan to ensure the physical health and financial security of our employees and their relations.
Not only do we have awesome consulting professionals, our sales and administration groups live up to the excellence that characterizes Progent. These high-performance contributors to Progent’s success are helping us to identify and sign up the scores of new clients we are currently engaging every month. We lately celebrated the delivery of support to our 1,000th customer. Try typing “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to check for yourself why we are also an effective marketing organization.
Having a passion for technical proficiency is a cornerstone for success with Progent. A career in consulting will push you to enhance your skills more than is possible in any other position in information technology. Being confronted by a continual series of technical challenges is what makes consulting interesting. Customers choose consulting firms to perform the toughest jobs. Creative tasks, advanced implementations, puzzling or chronic problems, and tricky migrations are the foundation for our services daily. With us, you will not stall or be narrowly defined, as is all too typical for computer engineers in ordinary corporate jobs. You will awake every day enthusiastic about the challenges to come.
On the way, you will meet some great people, both by establishing 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 vital, but we are a relationship-focused company heart and soul. If you do not offer excellent communications skills or like working with a varied assortment of people, then we are probably not a good match.
If all this sounds good to you, we urge you to contact Progent about our view of the future of information technology consulting.
Get Quality of Life Benefits and Professional Prowess with Our Sophisticated Virtual Office Infrastructure Progent believes that a well designed and implemented network can be a pivotal factor for enabling any firm's growth, and Progent follows this philosophy in our corporate network infrastructure. Progent has built a fault-tolerant virtual office infrastructure that enables Progent's in-house consultants and authorized contractors to deliver fast and effective service, collaborate easily on sophisticated projects, and gain from career and personal growth by being a member of an exciting business culture of self motivation and independence.
Progent offers clients the services of consultants who have earned some of the IT industry's most prized credentials. Progent thinks that customers deserve to know that their computer service consultants have accredited testing plus extensive practical experience so that Progent's customers can use Progent's service with trust. In many cases, vendor certifications like the Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts confers privileges for substantially superior vendor support than is available to uncertified service providers, allowing Progent to offer customers a better class of computer service. In addition, major credentials such as CISA or ISSAP for network security can aid corporate customers to show compliance with regulatory requirements by using the services of accredited industry experts.
Microsoft Live Communications Server delivers IM and presence as part of a scalable, enterprise-grade solution offering enhanced security, transparent integration with other Microsoft software, an extendable, industry-standard development environment, and support for regulatory mandates such as HIPAA, SOX, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Your organization can benefit from cost savings and improved operational efficiencies, increased worker productivity, and better IP protection with this simple-to-manage, highly available solution. Successful implementations of LCS require careful planning and consideration prior to roll out. Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can provide the skill needed to realize all the advantages of LCS across your whole corporation.
Progent’s IT outsourcing packages offer affordable network consulting for small companies. Whether it involves designing system infrastructure, creating an in-house Help Desk or outsourcing a one, deploying an updated e-mail system, monitoring your system, or building a web-based business application, outsourcing your network technical services can contain costs and minimize uncertainties, allowing IT service budgets to increase in a more linear and manageable manner than is possible by assembling a large, all-purpose in-house IT organization. Progent’s Outsourcing White Paper and flyers tell you how Progent can enable you to build a protected and highly available network architecture for your vital business software based on Windows such as Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, and Microsoft Office 2000.
Progent's CISM-certified security consultants can help you secure your Apple Mac environment through professional services such as performing security audits, clean up after virus and denial of service penetrations, setting up firewalls, implementing secure off-site and mobile access, deploying monitoring software for protection against viruses, spam, and malware, and developing a comprehensive security strategy appropriate for the specific objectives of your corporate information system.
Progent's Check Point experts can show you how to select and deploy Check Point Firewall/VPN software and hardware powered by Check Point's security platform to offer an economical and effective security solution for your IT network. Progent can also show you how to integrate other Check Point technologies including ZoneAlarm and Check Point FireWall with security products from other suppliers and offer a single stop for continuing network support, maintenance, training, and consulting services.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you you to calculate the advantages of Windows Server 2008 for your company, create test programs and migration strategies, integrate Windows Server 2008 with your IT environment and workload, educate your support staff how to run enhanced administration tools, and provide continuing consulting and technical support via budget-friendly options including Help Desk service and remote technical support.
For organizations with a combination of Mac and Microsoft Windows desktops, Microsoft has two products for using Windows programs on Apple systems: Virtual PC and Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac. Progent's Apple-certified Macintosh consultants can help you set up Virtual PC or Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac so you can run Windows software on Macintosh workstations.
AT&T represents the combination of SBC, AT&T, PacBell, and BellSouth. AT&T is a Tier 1 ISP and offers a wide spectrum of data transports such as SBC ADSL, T1, and ISDN for high-speed connectivity and AT&T Point-to-Point T1, Frame Relay Plus, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode for enterprise customers. AT&T IP Flexible Reach uses AT&T VoIP solutions for multi-site companies to centralize PBX functions. Progent has an agent agreement with AT&T and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Cisco Systems Partner equipped with the skill to help you incorporate AT&T data/voice services to create a world-class, cohesive communications network on a down-to-earth budget.
Server proliferation wreaks havoc on IT budgets and management resources. Server consolidation through a virtual architecture promises lower total cost of ownership of hardware and quicker ROI, more efficient utilization of servers, simplified operations, increased network availability, and easier management. Common uses for virtual machines are resource consolidation, economical platforms for line-of-business legacy software based on outdated operating systems, and affordable isolation of program development or pilot testing systems from on-line systems.
