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azad is a leading provider of IT Consulting, Project Management and Engineering solutions to Fortune 500 and innovative high-tech firms.

With azad you will find the experience, professionalism, and commitment to excellence necessary to ensure your success in the fast paced world of information technology.

azad is the company with the resources, know-how, and dedication to provide unsurpassed services to its consultants. azad, setting the standard for professionalism, integrity, and quality.

Founded and managed by IT professionals, azad works closely with its clients on their most cutting edge projects and is able to offer you the most exciting and challenging positions with the industry leaders.

Look to azad’s professional  staff to find the project and technology that will make and keep your career successful.

Please click on the category of your expertise in the following list to review some of the positions and the projects we have. Please contact us for more information.

 

 

CONSULTING & CONTRACT POSITIONS

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Inside Sales/Technical Recruiter

 

 





.NET Senior Software Engineer

C#/.NET/Web Services Software Developer
Software Engineer
Linux Software Engineer

.NET Software Engineer
Sr. Windows Driver Developer
Sr. Device Driver Software Engineer




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.NET Senior Software Engineer
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Software Engineer to join AZAD’s team of professionals to contribute to one of our clients' product development initiatives. The successful  candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Extensive software development experience on MS-Windows environment utilizing .NET framework.
- Strong working knowledge and experience  with C# and C++. 
- Proven experience within a "managed code" environment. 
- Experience with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a big plus.  
- This individual will possess excellent communication skills, be self driven and work well within a team environment.  

**Must be a US Citizen or a Green Card holder**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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C#/.NET/Web Services Software Developer
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for interpreting design specifications, assisting in technical design, coding software, conducting unit tests, assisting with install process for server/client, following test and deployment procedures, complying with project documentation requirements and working on a development team using a mix of development methodologies including Agile and Waterfall. The AZAD consultant must possess a minimum of ten plus years of in software development, at least seven of which have been in Microsoft technologies. The individual must have demonstrated experience with .NET, C#, Microsoft SQL Server, ADO.NET, and Web Services.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Significant recent experience building high performing user interfaces using Windows Forms technology. 

- Possess a high degree of familiarity and use of object oriented design and coding concepts. 

- Experience with the use and design patterns and techniques commonly used in UI design.
- Experience with Microsoft 2008 .NET Windows Forms and Web Applications development.
- Working experience with Microsoft AJAX and AJAX control toolkit.
- Proficient in C#, as well as, C++.NET.
- Experience with ADO and ADO.NET application development in SQL server.
- Experience designing, writing and deploying .NET applications that use Web Services and socket based protocols.
- Experience with server and .iis setup/configurations to support n-tier operations.
- Design, Develop and conduct automated load and unit tests.

Responsibilities for this project include:
- Perform development and testing tasks within the 2.0/3.5 framework using Microsoft C#.NET, Web Services and WinForms applications.
- Produce robust, efficient, effective .NET code for applications that interact with end users in a highly available environment.
- Demonstrate ability to troubleshoot database performance problems in applications written in ADO.NET, using SQL as the backend for data access.
- Develop an n-tier client-server application that uses a Web Server, application server and database engine architecture.

**Must be a US Citizen**

Location: Vancouver, WA 

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Software Engineer
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for development, design and implementation of application software products. The AZAD consultant will possess experience in multi-threaded and/or client-server development.   
 

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Minimum of 5 years prior design and development experience required.   
- Hands-on experience with debuggers and crash dump analysis tools.  
- Hands-on experience with source-code control systems and bug tracking systems.  
- Experience with code coverage and profiling tools.
- Proven experience in the following technology areas:  
    
- Complex software application development.
     - Strong development experience in C language.  
    
- C++, Java, VB, VB.NET development experience.  
    
- Database centric application development including SQL and related technologies.  
    
- TCP/IP protocols and Ethernet networking technology.  
    
- Web Server centric application development including HTML, XML, SOAP, HTTP, Perl and server side scripting.  
    
- Multi-threaded and distributed programming models.  
    
- Cable centric experience including DOCSIS, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.  
    
- Client-server applications including message passing paradigms and protocols.  
    
- Real-time application design, including deadline scheduling and resource management.
- BS in Computer Science, or equivalent.  Advanced degree (MSEE, MSCS) preferred.


**Must be a US Citizen or a Green Card holder**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Linux Software Engineer

This is an excellent opportunity for a Sr. Linux Software Engineer to join AZAD's team of professionals and contribute their expertise on a new Linux based product development initiative.

The ideal candidates must posses the following qualifications and experience:
- Working knowledge writing device interfaces and drivers under Linux.
- Experience with SUSE Linux and C/C++ development.
- Experience with configuring Linux kernels for embedded applications.
- Sound engineering skills demonstrated by successful design, development, verification and deployment.
- Ability to work well individually and in a team environment.
- Any experience with Video data is a plus.

*Must be US a Citizen or a Green Card holder**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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.NET Software Engineer

This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD's team of professionals and be responsible for coding, testing, configuring, migrating and maintaining various vendor and in-house applications providing Web Services using SQL and Windows platforms. The AZAD consultant will be involved with organizing, planning, implementing and managing a large, complex .NET application development and performing project technical requirements, design, development and testing tasks in a development team using an Agile Development Methodology.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Ten years plus experience in software development with at least seven of which have been in Microsoft technologies.
- Five years plus of SQL Server application development experience.
- Three years plus of .NET Windows Forms and ASP.NET Applications development experience.
- Expert knowledge of TSQL, database modeling and schema implementations in SQL Server.
- Extensive user control development experience.
- Proven knowledge of C# or C++.NET.
- Expert level use of object-oriented design and programming techniques/patterns.
- Minimum of two plus years working in an Agile development team.
- Experience using NUNIT and/or JUNIT.
- Five plus years of responsibility for large code bases.
- Any experience or knowledge in the following is a plus; SQL Server Reporting, Multithreaded application development. MS Application Blocks, Java, JSP or Servlet development under Tomcat, .NET framework 2.0, GIS application development, C++, STL or ATL, COM programming, Win32 API (especially GDI) programming, *nix development, Python, Perl, Ruby, CVS, XML (utilization via DOM and/or SAX, XPATH, XML Schemas, XSLT).

*Must be US a Citizen or a Green Card holder**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Sr. Windows Driver Developer
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and work in dynamic, fast-paced environment responsible for design, development, and technical leadership of next generation product line in the imaging industry.  

The following are the qualifications for the ideal candidate:
- Strong working experience in driver development for MS-Windows. 
- Proven software development experience in C++. 
- Possess superior trouble shooting, debugging and analytical skills.  
- Must be self-motivated, possess excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills. 
- Experienced working as a technical lead as well as lead developer working with multi-site development projects.
 

**Must be a US Citizen or a Green Card holder**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Sr. Device Driver Software Engineer
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for USB driver development.  

The ideal candidate will possess one of the following qualifications and/or experience:
- Hardware device driver (e.g. Phillips USB IC) through TMC protocol experience.  
- Proven knowledge of GPIB, USB, NI-Visa or similar interfaces designed to control test and measurement equipment and query acquisition data. Technical experience should include exposure to multiple SW layers, from physical device through transport and application layers.
Linux device driver experience.
- Strong understanding of protocol issues associated with bi-directional transmission of both data and events. This understanding should include control state machine and associated abort/resync operations.
- Strong understanding of C, C++ and multi-threaded embedded systems development.
- Knowledge of ClearCase is a plus.
- Must be self-motivated, possess excellent communication skills and multi-tasking abilities.

**Must be a US Citizen or a Green Card holder**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Information Systems

 


Oracle Database Administrator

Senior Technical Business Analyst

ETL Developer 

Technical Business Analyst

SharePoint Web Administrator

Windows System Administrator

Senior Project Manager

Technical Asset Suite Developer

Senior Web Developer

BizTalk/Data Integration Analyst

SQL Server Infrastructure Engineer  

Oracle Database Developer

Data Modeler/Analyst

SQL Server Database Administrator

Oracle Database Administrator

Oracle/Java Developer





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Oracle Database Administrator
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for
performing enterprise level database administration using the Oracle tool suite to install databases, implement scripting, tuning, backups, monitoring, failover and data protection, recovery and security. The AZAD consultant must possess five plus years of DBA experience using at least the latest two versions of Oracle including managing logins, troubleshooting problems, automation through scripting and modifying database structures to ensure performance and data integrity.  


The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Proven experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR5 Grid Control. 
- Strong skills in Oracle performance tuning. 
- Working experience with Oracle 10gR2. 
- Command line experience with Windows 2003 64bit.
- Working experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Perl and Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting and Visual Basic Script Host. 
- Experience with Oracle SQL and PL/SQL.
- Working experience with DBArtisan, TOAD, or similar tool(s).
- Experience with Oracle HA (High Availability) experience with DataGuard.
- Experience with Automatic Storage Management (ASM).
- Experience with Recovery Manager (RMAN). 
- Experience with storage of Oracle Databases on a SAN/NAS. 
- Ability to install and customize OEM 10gR5 Grid Control to provide monitoring, administration and configuration management on database engines.
- Knowledge to perform routine database management from command line without the use of GUI Tools.  Use GUI tools for efficiency when appropriate and available.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Senior Technical Business Analyst
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for performing interviews and research to determine IT business requirements and translates them into specifications for complex technical projects. The AZAD consultant will possess ten plus years of demonstrated analyst experience using technical product life cycle concepts and requirements engineering with experience in a web application development environment.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Minimum of ten years of demonstrated user-centered research and design of Web sites, Web-based applications and/or software.
- Technical interviewing experience in the Information Technology environment including internal customers and other business analysts. 
-Working experience in the following:
     - Web site design, functionality and usability principles, issues  and techniques.
     - Web usage analytics metrics, terminology, and experience.
    
- Content Management principles.

    
- Human Factor design principles.

    
- User Research (Usage Scenarios, Profiling, Surveys, Task Analysis, Field Research).

    
- Usability (Expert Reviews, Competitive Analysis, Qualitative and Quantitative Testing).

    
- User Experience Design.

- Product development lifecycle models such as Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), or Rapid Application Development Model.
- Ability to perform user analysis, document user flows, and suggest methods to optimize websites for enhancing the customer experience.
- Experience with Metastorm Designer to model and implement business processes and workflows.
- Ability to conduct requirement elicitation interviews to gather business requirements, understand business processes being addressed and suggest improvements by providing business statistics and trends. 
- Experience to generate project documentation containing specific recommendations for the proposed system including problem definition, required function/behavior, performance, interfaces and estimates on costs/schedule. 
- Proven experience with design and recommending solutions when conflicts arise between customers requested changes and technical limitations.

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* Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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ETL Developer 
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for
developing Extract, Transformation and Loading (ETL) procedures for implementing data integration and data migration tasks in support of Data Warehousing and other data integration projects. The AZAD consultant will possess demonstrated experience using the Informatica Suite of tools including Power Center and Power Exchange as well as SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).    

-The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Informatica Suite including: Power Center version 8 or higher, Power Exchange version 8 or higher.
- Microsoft 2005/2008 SQL Integration Services.
- Data Warehousing design techniques
- Data analysis, source system analysis and data mapping.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008.
- Windows Server 2003.

Responsibilities for this project include:
- ETL procedures, batch processes, scheduling; troubleshooting problems and making suggestions for performance tuning and system integrity. 

- Data models and database design techniques, including relational and dimensional modeling.

- Effectively map source to target data to meet business/system requirements.
- SQL stored procedures and advanced SQL queries.

- Develop functional and technical requirements documents for diverse audience (technical and non-technical), including migration, implementation and test plans.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Technical Business Analyst
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for performing interviews and research to determine IT business requirements and translates them into specifications for complex technical projects. The AZAD consultant will possess ten plus years of demonstrated analyst experience using modeling languages, technical product life cycle concepts, requirements engineering. 

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Experience with Technical and Functional/process interviewing skills in the Information Technology environment.
- Experience with Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes.
- Experience and ability to develop SDLC documents including: requirements, business cases, process diagrams, systems design, project plans and production support guides.
- Experience with modeling of requirements, verification of deliverables.
- Experience with logical data modeling concepts sufficient to aid in the communication of requirements between users and developers.
- Familiarity with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Sources of Record (SOR).
- Ability to analyze data requirements and support data modeling.
- Ability to develop data requirements for a system and identify the source of record (SOR).
- Possess strong technical writing skills with the ability to present information in various forms such as textual, graphical and statistical.
- Familiarity with the IEEE Software Development standards or equivalent.
- Excellent communication skills including facilitation, negotiation and conflict resolution.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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SharePoint Web Administrator 
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals. The AZAD consultant will possess five plus years of demonstrated experience in an enterprise web environment supporting Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server and/or Microsoft Project Server.  This individual will have an understanding of web content management, document management, and records management.  

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Working experience with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) standard interfaces and WSS Web Part Framework.

- Experience with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

- Experience with content management, document management, and records management within a SharePoint environment.

- Ability to configure Microsoft SharePoint Web Parts.

- Experience to create professional web page layouts that are consistent, easy to read, and easy to navigate.

- Ability to coordinate and communicate with SharePoint 2003 site owners during migrations to a SharePoint 2007 environment.

- Experience with user needs assessments in the Information Technology environment.

- Excellent communication skills including training and technical documentation.

- Working knowledge of LDAP/Active Directory.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Windows System Administrator
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for
providing operating system support in order to provide sustainable, stable and secure enterprise level servers including backup recovery, performance tuning, upgrades/patches, maintenance, troubleshooting, permissions and file sharing.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Experience with i
nstallation and maintenance of high-availability servers using Windows 2003 Server (32bit and/or 64bit) or Windows 2008 Server.
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Experience with Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory support.
- Working experience with Virtual Server Technology using Hypervisor and Microsoft Virtual Server, or VMWare. 
- Experience with Microsoft Windows Clustering Technology.
- Working experience with installation of Windows XP, or Windows 7.
- Hands on experience with installation of server hardware including processors, memory, controller cards, HBA (host based adapter), video and network cards.
- Experience with Cisco Network switches, routers, network cabling, VLAN management.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Senior Project Manager
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating activities for a designated project to ensure that goals or objectives of the project are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters. The AZAD consultant will possess ten or more years of demonstrated project management experience on technology projects using industry standard methods and tools for managing schedules, dependencies, resources, funding and developing technical specifications and project plans for large-sized projects.


-The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Proven experience managing IT projects in accordance with industry project management principles.
- Working experience with System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles.
- Proven ability to manage timelines, dependencies, deliverables, milestones and resource allocation and management in projects.
- Experience to write and understand functional and technical IT specifications.
- Ability to accurately assess and estimate project costs.
- Experienced with the fundamental operation, function, and workflow of Microsoft Project with regard to timelines, dependencies, deliverables, milestones, and resources.
- Proven experience with software development planning, functional and technical specifications, and life-cycle management.
- Experienced with software testing from test plan development to reliable and verifiable test case development and results.
- Experienced with Linux, Microsoft Windows and Unix.
- Experienced with
software applications from productivity suites such as Microsoft Office to large integrated enterprise applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials, etc.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Technical Asset Suite Developer  
This is an excellent opportunity for an established Software Developer with extensive experience with Technical Asset Suite, formally known as PassPort to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for implementing, developing and maintaining Asset Suite release 6.01. The AZAD consultant must have experience working with the various modules within Asset Suite such as Contracts/Purchasing, Inventory and Work Management. This individual will possess proven skills and abilities in requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis and implementation practice demonstrated by thorough understanding of the delivered Asset Suite functionalities, its underlying business processes and capabilities. Experience working with Asset Suite Integration Framework Business Object and developing Service Oriented integration are required.   

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:  
- Extensive hands-on experience utilizing the Ventyx BuyDemand tool and Web Services integration.

- Proven experience with MicroFocus/Merant COBOL.

- Working experience with Java 2 Platform Standard Edition v1.4.
- Experience using JAVA/JSP to support Portal/J.

- Proven ability to code, test, configure and maintain various vendor and in-house applications using the software tools provided with the Indus PassPort 9.0+ application including Portal/J. 

- Experience with Ventyx Buy Demand Module for eCommerce.

- Experience with Ventyx IFBO and Web Services.

- Hands on experience with designing, developing and implementing web services security.

- Working experience with Oracle 10+ or Microsoft SQL 2003+ database programming.

- Experience with UNIX file systems, shells, utilities, scripting languages such as (c/k)sh, awk, and perl and UNIX application tuning on the Solaris 9 Operating System.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Senior Web Developer 

This is an excellent opportunity for an established web developer with ten plus years of demonstrated experience developing forms based web interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, and XML to join AZAD's team of professionals. The AZAD consultant will be responsible for developing, maintaining, testing and debugging web applications using site specified products, languages and tools to provide a sustainable business application.     

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:

- Proven experience working with SOA and Web Services.

- Experience with UI and Server side scripting including JavaScript, VBScript, and Ajax .

- Working experience with HTML and CSS.

- Experience working with XML.

- Experience with web based user interface designs for process oriented systems.

- Experience with usability analysis and design.

 

Responsibilities for this project include:

- Building Metastorm web based forms.

- Customizing Metastorm forms and workflows.

- Building and configuring Metastorm Sharepoint web parts.

- Creating and supporting BPMN based automated workflows running inside the Metastorm engine.

- Using jQuery, SPAPI and/or similar libraries to enhance Metastorm and Sharepoint UI’s.

- Creating JavaScript libraries implementing Ajax and other interactive UI technologies to increase the usability of web based applications.     

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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BizTalk/Data Integration Analyst
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for developing and assisting in managing and maintaining a highly available BizTalk infrastructure, as well as Extract, Transformation and Loading (ETL) procedures for implementing data integration, data migration and data orchestration tasks.  

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Microsoft BizTalk 2006/2009.
- C#.Net Development including Windows Communication Foundation.
- Experience developing/deploying Web Services.
- Data analysis, source system analysis and data mapping.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008.
- Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services.
- Windows Server 2003/2008.


Responsibilities for this project include: 

- Develop mappings, workflows and orchestrations using BizTalk to automate data/application integration.
- Windows Services for Data Integration projects and cross database support.
- Effectively map source to target data to meet business/system requirements.
- SQL stored procedures and advanced SQL queries.
- Develop functional and technical requirements documents for diverse audience (technical and non-technical), including migration, implementation and test plans.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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SQL Server Infrastructure Engineer  
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for
an architecture role designing enterprise class scalable Microsoft SQL Server databases. The AZAD consultant will posses skills and experience in the Microsoft Windows operating system, servers (especially database servers), SQL Server data storage solutions, high availability, role-based security, and networking in order to provide robust, sustainable and secure enterprise level database servers.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Ability to perform data analysis in order to develop data models and data movement (ETL) solutions. 
- Minimum of five years of SQL Server skills and experience in SQL Server 2005 and later versions, e.g. SQL Server 2008. 
- Minimum of two years of the five years experience must be with SQL Server 2005. 
- Experience with business process analysis as it relates to data.
- Experience with data analysis, logical and physical data modeling.
- Working experience with security practices and tools including:
     - Encryption (data element, table, database, etc.).
    
- Obfuscation (e.g. PII, NERC CIP, A123, etc.).
    
- Accessibility (user, application/web services, reporting, data     
       analysis).
- Experience with SQL Server 2005/2008 database administration in an enterprise consisting of multiple database servers and multiple instances and multiple databases in physical and virtual hosts.
- Scaling Microsoft SQL Server database to meet different project needs: Physical and virtual, Horizontal and vertical partitioning, Tiering, Clustering, Multi-site mirroring, Read-only databases to allow for data analysis / data warehousing.
- Experience with Transact SQL (TSQL).
- Experience with SQL Server 2005/2008 tools including Management Studio, DBArtisan, Toad, etc.
- Best practices in: ETL (e.g. DTS/SSIS packages, XML, Biztalk, Informatica, etc.), SQL Server HA (high availability),  Virtual Server Technology using Windows HyperV or VMWareESX, Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory support, Microsoft Windows and Veritas clustering technology, High availability technologies, Monitoring techniques to support Servers/Network/Desktops with MOM/SCOM, Nagios, SQL Profiler, etc.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Oracle Database Developer
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced database developer with Oracle 10 expertise to join AZAD’s team of professionals. The AZAD consultant will be responsible for the development and/or redesign of databases to be utilized for a  new reporting system. i.e. creating separate databases, mapping of schemas to the models created for Oracle  BI (formerly Hyperion ) for reports, etc.  Any experience with reporting packages including Oracle BI or Hyperion is a plus.This individual must be self driven and work well within a team environment, proven track record to meet deadlines and deliver the project goals.  

**Must be a US Citizen or a Green Card holder**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Data Modeler/Analyst
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD's team of professionals and be responsible for gathering and transforming business and technical requirements into conceptual, logical and physical data models repositories. The AZAD consultant will possess five plus years of demonstrated analyst experience using modeling languages, technical product life cycle concepts and requirements engineering.

The ideal candidate must possess the following qualifications and experience: 
- Data Modeling experience with a strong emphasis on the design and development of conceptual, logical and physical data models using named industry standard tools such as Popkin, Computer Associate’s AllFusion Data Modeler (Erwin) or Sybase’s Power Designer (including relational and dimensional modeling).
- Experience in the gathering, assimilation, organization, categorization and analysis of business requirements to create corresponding designs of logical and physical data models.
- Experience in deriving physical data models from a logical data model as well as reverse engineering a physical data model from a physical database.
- Experience in FIPS 184 Integration Definition for Information Modeling (IDEF1X) is preferred, but experience with an alternative modeling notation such as Information Engineering (IE) is sufficient.
- Ability to demonstrate understanding of database management system administration with regard to performance, configuration and denormalization.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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SQL Server Database Administrator
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD's team of professionals and be responsible for performing enterprise level database administration using the Microsoft SQL Server tool suite to install databases, implement scripting, tuning, backups, monitoring, failover and data protection, recovery, security and integrity. The AZAD consultant must possess a minimum of five years of DBA experience using SQL Server.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Extensive knowledge of SQL Server 2000 and 2005.
- Experience with SQL Server Enterprise Manager, Management Studio, TSQL, and SQL Server HA (high availability) experience.
- Knowledge of DTS and SSIS packages.
- Ability to complete new database installations, tuning, monitoring, security, O/S backups and recovery.
- Any experience in the following is desired; Windows client connectivity tools such as NetOp and Microsoft Remote Desktop, DBArtisan and/or Database replication.
- Proven experience using scripting languages such as Perl v5.x and Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting and Visual Basic Script Host are desired.

Responsibilities for this project include:
- Provide developer and end-user support for SQL Server databases including maintaining existing TSQL code, performance tuning and troubleshooting database interoperability problems.
- Perform routine database management from the TSQL command line (without the use of GUI tools).
- Install and utilize SQL Server Management Studio to provide monitoring, administration and configuration management on database engines.
- Support a variety of security models, including those hosting personal or business sensitive information as well as recommend process enhancements to security models.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Oracle Database Administrator
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for
performing enterprise level database administration using the Oracle tool suite to install databases, implement scripting, tuning, backups, monitoring, failover and data protection, recovery and security. The AZAD consultant must possess five to nine plus years of DBA experience using at least the latest two versions of Oracle including managing logins, troubleshooting problems, automation through scripting and modifying database structures to ensure performance and data integrity.  


The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Strong knowledge of Oracle 10g.
- Command level experience with Windows 2003 64bit, Windows 2003 32bit, Solaris 10, and Red Hat Enterprise v4.
- Experience with scripting languages, such as, Perl and Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting and Visual Basic Script Host.
- Experience with Oracle PL /SQL.
- DBArtisan, TOAD, or similar tool(s).
- Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control.
- Oracle HA (High Availability) experience with DataGuard.

Responsibilities for this project include:
- Perform login management, install/patch, troubleshoot connectivity issues, monitor performance and tune when necessary, backup and restore databases in a complex three-tier architecture (client web interface, application engine, database engine).
- Write and debug shell, PERL and/or VB Scripts to automate DBA processes such as monitoring/alarming on volume growth, performance bottlenecks, batch scheduling, and connectivity failures.
- Install and customize OEM 10g Grid Control to provide monitoring, administration and configuration management on database engines.
- Perform routine database management from command line without the use of GUI Tools

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Oracle/Java Developer

This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for supporting legacy system applications. This individual must have the ability to reverse engineer complex code with little or no documentation, and be experienced in isolating a bug in a production application, coding a fix for the bug, testing and deploying.

The ideal candidate must possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Proven experience working with Oracle, PL/SQL, Java, Microsoft OS and Unix OS and scripting.
- Ability to review existing business critical applications, make possible changes to an Oracle Forms front end, adapt changes in a key data interface and create modifications to reports.
- The candidate must be detail oriented and able to trouble shoot complex problems that span multiple applications, databases and server layers.
- Must be self-motivated, possess excellent communication skills and multi-tasking abilities.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Quality Assurance


Sr. Software Verification Engineer
Quality Assurance Analyst





 
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Sr. Software Verification Engineer
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for generating and executing system level automated and manual verification test algorithms for products to ensure conformance to specified design requirements. The AZAD consultant will be responsible for the development of automated tests and review of product design firmware and documentation to ensure high quality and compliance.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience: 
- Established experience with high level languages including (C, C++ or C#), Visual Studio and .NET.  

- Proven experience creating automated test programs in C#. 
- Proven experience in creating verification tests in hardware or firmware. 
- Experience working with configuration management, test management and defect and debug tracking tools.
- Working experience with HP Quality Center and MKS Integrity Client. 
- Working experience with system level manual and automated black box testing. 
- Experienced in testing of extremely low power embedded real time software including hardware, and have a strong understanding of the interface between embedded software and hardware. 
- Experience with software lifecycle processes in a highly regulated environment (FDA, ISO, and other regulatory bodies).  
- Proven experience reviewing product design documents and firmware (written in C language).  

- Experience analyzing test results, ability to generate disposition reports based on the results with specific focus on hardware/ firmware interactions.
- Ability to generate protocols, guidelines and training sessions on proper verification test designs and other verification activities.  

- Ability to develop and maintain the appropriate work product deliverables from each phase of the verification with specific focus on hardware and firmware interactions.
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering. 

**Must be a US Citizen or a Green Card holder**

Location: Portland, OR  

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Quality Assurance Analyst
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and will be responsible for using Hp Quality Center v10 (QC) to develop test plan and test cases, execute test cases, maintain defects for applications that interface with layered products in complex Enterprise Client/Server Microsoft Windows environment.  The AZAD consultant possesses strong experience in coding for automation testing using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) tool.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Possess ten plus years of demonstrated QA experience involving writing test cases, test database creation/sanitizing, problem tracking/resolution and maintaining defect logs.
- Possess five plus years of strong experience in developing Test automation using VbScript for QTP.
- Possess five plus years of experience of usage of Quality Center / Test Director.

- Proven experience with formal SQA methodologies including software development life cycles, testing processes and standards.
- Experienced in conducting Functional, Systems and Integration, and regression testing.
- Ability to participate and coordinate with business users for User Acceptance Testing.
- Experienced in writing Structured Query Language (SQL) to execute against Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases.

- Working experience with database query tools such as DB Artisan, Toad, Aqua Data Studio, or SQL Query Analyzer in a distributed Client/Server environment.

- Experience with process models using Business Process Modeling Notation, (BPMN).
- Ability to interpret and transform data models, business use case diagrams, environment and data needs into testing deliverables.

** Must be a US Citizen.**

Location: Vancouver, WA 

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Hardware Development

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Microwave Design Engineer

 

 

 

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Microwave Design Engineer

This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible to  develop high-performance products that show aspects of Microwave and RF signals that are undetectable by other instruments. The AZAD consultant will be responsible for the modeling, simulation and design of microwave and RF circuits and systems.

 

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Solid background in Microwave and RF design principles with experience at 8-20 GHz.

- Demonstrated ability to integrate RF/uW subsystems with analog, digital and mechanical designs.

- Experience with high-frequency circuit design and design tools (AGILANT ADS OR HFSS).

- Experience in designing for manufacturability, reliability and cost.

- BSEE/MSEE or equivalent.

 

Responsibilities for this project include:         

- Interfacing the microwave and RF sections with the Digital, analog, DSP and mechanical parts of a system.

- Writing engineering documents on design specifications, theory of operation and troubleshooting.

- Testing designs over environmental conditions.

* Must be a US Citizen or a green card holder.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Human Factors


Technical Writer

 

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Technical Writer
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for writing content and developing online documentation utilizing XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript to support multifunctional devices. The AZAD consultant will possess five
or more years of experience supporting technical documentation and customer deliverables. 

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Expert knowledge of FrameMaker, InDesign and/or Illustrator.
- Experience using Dreamweaver, Flare, and or Robohelp.
- Expert developing and performing QA for multi language help systems/websites.
- Strong Project Management skills and experience.
- Ability to scope workloads, develop schedules, track and report statuses to ensure on-time delivery of final files. 
- BA/BS degree in English, journalism, or related field.

** Must be a US Citizen or a green card holder.**

Location: Portland Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Network


Network Engineer

Protocols Architect

Sr. Web Technical Business Analyst





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Network Engineer
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professionals and be responsible for providing direct/indirect support to end users, enhancing the performance and reliability of the network and servers, providing support for projects and supporting mission critical software.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Strong understanding of Windows networking and MS-Windows Server administration in an enterprise environment.
- Active Directory, NT Domain, IIS, SQL Server, Corp Antivirus and other security utilities.
- Knowledge of DHCP, DNS, and User account administration.
- Experience with MS- Exchange and Veritas back up software.
- MCSE or equivalent corporate IT system administration experience.

Responsibilities for this project include: 
- Maintain multi-site LAN\WAN environment.
- Monitor and tune network and servers for optimum performance. 
- Recommend, perform, and coordinate upgrades to network and server software and hardware.
- Assure an appropriate level of security for network and servers.
- Maintain onsite and offsite data backups.
- Cisco and non-Cisco network administration (routers, switches, firewall, vpn, etc.).

**Must be US Citizen or a Green Card holder**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Protocols Architect
This is an excellent opportunity for a communications systems engineer / researcher to join AZAD's team of professionals. The AZAD consultant will be responsible for performing feasibility studies for a next generation home network multi-media communications system transmitting over unreliable media with emphasis on MAC protocols, mesh/ad-hoc networking, Quality of Service, multi-media transmission, performance optimization and ease of use. 

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:

- Five plus years experience in wireless communication systems design and R&D of architectures and protocols.

- Proven ability to develop new patentable systems, concepts, and technology.

- Experience with multiple access techniques and protocols; link layer protocols; TCP/IP protocol suite; and IP-based streaming protocols.

- Experience with routing and scheduling algorithms; OFDM systems; and Quality of Service technologies.

- Experience with active participation in standards bodies and/or collaborating with outside parties.

- Masters in EE or related subject required, PhD a plus.

- Excellent communications skills a must.


**Must be US Citizen or a Green Card holder**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Sr. Web Technical Business Analyst
This is an excellent opportunity to join AZAD’s team of professional and be responsible for analyzing, facilitating, modeling and organizing information in order to elicit requirements, reconcile conflicts, and distinguish solution ideas from business needs. The AZAD consultant will possess a minimum of five years of demonstrated analyst experience using technical product life cycle concepts and requirements engineering in a web application development environment.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:
- Product development lifecycle models, such as, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), or Rapid Application Development Model.
- Web site design, functionality and usability principles, issues and techniques.
- Online analytics metrics, terminology, and experience with leading analytics tools such as Web Side Story (Hitbox), Webtrends, Omniture, WebSide Story, and/or Coremetrics.

Responsibilities for this project include:
- Providing analysis about Watchpoints with recommendations for improving site performance and usability when requested.  
- Performing the Software Requirement Analysis portion of development including feasibility studies and investigating the need for possible software automation.  
- Producing documentation that contains specific recommendations for the proposed system including; problem definition, required function/behavior, performance, interfaces and estimates on costs/schedule.

**Must be US Citizen or a Green Card holder**

Location: Portland, Oregon

Please send resumes to: web@azad.com or call AZAD Toll Free at 1-800-406-1785

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Sales Professionals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Inside Sales/Technical Recruiter
              Come be a part of the excitement.

AZAD, a successful IT consulting and engineering company, has an opening for an Inside Sales/Technical Recruiter. This individual will be located in our Portland, Oregon office and will work directly with our professional business development team. We offer a generous base salary (DOE) plus commission and outstanding benefits.

In this diverse position you will be responsible for networking, prospecting, qualifying and recruitment of potential consultants for AZAD, as well as responsible for managing and retention of employee consultants.

You must have a proven track record in sales success, be results driven, problem solver, willing to learn, and enjoy working in a very fast paced environment. Outstanding oral and written communication skills are a must. Additionally, this individual must have a passion for technology, sales, and an interest in helping people to succeed in their career at AZAD.

Excellent result driven compensation package, career growth model, and an opportunity to work within a professional team environment with an in-depth training program. If you are a self-motivated individual with an impeccable work ethic, creative, enjoy working with people and have a BA or BS degree, you are strongly encouraged to apply.

Other benefits include
- Health
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Dental
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Vision insurance
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Vacation/Holiday Pay  
- 401(k)

Please submit your resume, a cover letter, and your compensation history to hr@azad.com.

** Must be a US Citizen or a green card holder.**

Location: Portland, Oregon

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