John Bemis

• Remote working days are Monday and Fridays. 
• In-office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. 

• 5+ years hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud offerings in a system engineering and operations capacity.  Ability to design and implement Azure native solutions to reduce the need for 3rd party toolsets.
• 7+ years of Production Server Engineering and Operational support in a global environment that is predominately Windows with exposure to various versions of Linux.  
• Strong ability to create and maintain scripts, utilizing toolsets/languages such as PowerShell, YAML, KQL, bash, JSON, Ansible, to automate manual processes.
• Experience deploying cloud resources utilizing Infrastructure as Code technology (Terraform). 

• Experience working in an Azure DevOps/DevSecOps environment and knowledge supporting and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal) to both a technical/non-technical audience. 

• Experience managing an Active Directory environment (DHCP, DNS, GPO, DFS)
• Experience designing and implementing Azure Monitor to provide the appropriate level of proactive alerting to ensure environmental uptime.          
• Experience with Container support and orchestration within a public cloud (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).
• Ability to liase with the architecture team to present new ideas, design a solution and see it through to implementation.
• Prior experience defining and/or operating disaster recovery plans.
• Ability to Mentor other system engineers on core support and triage approach improving overall team development and the quality of delivered IT services.
• Previous experience working with Security and Compliance teams to provide evidence demonstrating compliance with operational controls.
• Ability to identify areas of inefficiency, propose and implement standards and automations to reduce complexity, improving the overall framework.
• Understand and control the operational costs associated with operating in a Microsoft Azure environment.
• Ability to demonstrate strong time management and prioritization skills within a dynamic environment. 
• Demonstrate strong Attention to Detail and a customer-centric mindset to understand requirements and follow established controls within the environment.   
• Ability to create and maintain configuration, operational and control documents.
• Possess a Growth Mindset, keen to learning and exploring.

Technology Account Executive  – Hybrid - Benchmark IT

Benchmark IT, a leading technology consulting and recruitment firm in the NY Metro area, has an outstanding opportunity for a Technology Account Executive in our Stamford, CT headquarters.  We operate in Hybrid mode, 1 day/week in the office and 4 days/week from home.   

We’re looking for candidates with a minimum of 2 years technical sales or account management experience to join our team, working and learning from the best in a supportive, ethical and fun environment.

What’s in it for you:

Here’s your day to day:

Here’s what you’ll  bring to the team:

Here’s what will make you stand out:

Required Experience:

Our direct client, a global firm in Northern NJ, seeks an experienced Business Analyst to work on requirements for a new software project, where the client is building an application used in business risk management.  

Responsibilities include:

•         Collaborate with business process leads to gather the high-level business requirements, documenting the findings and decisions within acceptable standards and templates

•         Work with a multi-disciplinary team on the development and implementation of new software applications.  

•         Analyze the impact to integration points and ensure that design can meet the need

•         Perform requirements development, analysis, and create related documentation, i.e. use cases, business process diagrams, use case realizations, user interface storyboards/prototypes, report mockups, data conversion specifications, specific to this new application. 

•         Create the detailed functional specifications document

•         Translate requirements and work with IT on the development of implementation options to be then played back and serving as an interface to the business process leads

•         Ensure traceability from business requirements through application testing

•         Interface with the Testing team and help them to prepare for testing

•         Review test cases, and test scripts developed by the Testing team, as well as perform spot checking to ensure functionality meets business requirements

•         SME with regards to application functionality and ability to validate if a reported issue is a defect or an enhancement

•         Work with the other members of the development, QA, testing and business teams to clarify requirements and application functionality

•         Support and enable delivery of projects through completion

•         Must be able to communicate requirements effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desired Skills:

•         Able to identify ambiguity and propose necessary specificity to eliminate ambiguity and ensure alignment with Business Process Lead’s intent

•         Strong software design skills and usability

•         Strong analytical and organizational skills

•         Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills

•         Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

•         Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with many levels of management, and interface between technical team and business owners

•         Must be a self-starter with a sense of urgency, strong work ethic and results oriented team player

•         Has strong experience working on large global projects

•         Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite applications including Word, Excel, Project, Visio, SharePoint/Teams, and Power Point

Desired Experience/Knowledge 

•          4-5 years of hands on Business Analysis experience in a complex regulated environment

•          Strong experience with Microsoft tools such as Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Teams;  preferred exposure to Azure DevOps.

•          Skillful in requirements elicitation, analysis, and management for medium to large initiatives while interacting with multiple stakeholders in a matrix organization

•          Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, proficient at communicating/interacting professionally with diverse groups, clients, executives, managers, and subject matter experts

•          Professional designation such as CBAP, PMP, Six Sigma or comparable methodologies strongly encouraged

•          Proficient with industry-standard, structured business analysis techniques, and practices