Friday, December 16, 2011

Info Security Specialist (Forensics) - Opportunity with a Global Giant's Cyber Security Team in Singapore.


Opportunity to join a growing, fast-paced and high-performance Cyber Security team. The ideal candidate for this Senior Incident Response position will be an experienced professional and strong leader who will work with others to conduct critical network investigations and make essential business practice recommendations. The candidate will manage the escalation of computer security events from multiple sources, validate and verify these events as security incidents, and then resolve the incidents.

The successful candidate will act as Subject Matter Expert with a broad understanding of Information Technology Security practices with a strong understanding of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks, hacking techniques and associated defensive techniques.

Required Qualifications
·         5-12 years of experience in Information Security, with a concentrated focus on Incident Response, Forensics, Investigations and Case Management experience
·         Advanced level experience using network and system forensics tools (Encase, FTK and F-Response)
·         Familiarity with malware reverse engineering and ethical hacking is a major plus
·         Strong knowledge and administrative experience on Windows and UNIX platforms
·         Knowledge of mid-range and mainframe operating environments - Tandem, MVS, TPF, OS-400 preferred
·         Candidate must possess a strong aptitude for Risk Management
·         CFCE, GCIH, GCFA, EnCE CHFI, GCIA, GCED, GPEN Certifications preferred

Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE and available for F2F interviews apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com
  
Overseas Candidates are not considered at the moment. Thanks in advance.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Software Configuration Analyst (Mainframe) - Opportunity with a Global MNC in Singapore.


The Software Configuration (Mainframe) Analyst will be responsible for evaluating and implementing various technologies and tools to optimize Software Configuration Management tools and support infrastructure for scalability and efficiency. Also provide Host Software Configuration Management support to geographically distributed software development teams in a Mainframe and Tandem environments.

Duties will include the compiling, migration and installation of source code to multiple environments utilizing the All Fusion Change Manager tool (formally know as Endevor) and Version Control Manager for Tandem platform. In addition, provide administrative support of primary toolset, training and end user support, trouble shoot errors with migrations and primary toolset and act as contact with systems support.

Required Skills/Experience: 
·         Minimum 5-8 years relevant work experience in Software Configuration Management in a Mainframe environment
·         All Fusion Change Manager (Endevor)
·         TSO
·         Tandem
·         MVS
·         JCL
·         REXX
·         CLIST
·         ISPF Dialogs
·         TPX
·         Proficient in Software Configuration Management best practices and standards.  Proficient in understanding the structure of an MVS and Tandem environment 
·         Knowledge of ITIL framework.

Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE and available for F2F interviews apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

Thanks in advance!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Network Security Analyst (Operations Center) - Opportunity with a Financial Institution in Singapore.


Required Qualifications
·         3-6 years of work experience with Information Security monitoring
·         Experience working on a Technical Services/Support Operations team.
·         Candidate must possess strong analytical skills to identify complex security issues and respond at the same level with a technical understanding of when to escalate impacting security events
·         Experience operating and administrating Security Information and Event Management platforms and/or Intrusion Detection/Prevention platforms
·         Possess functional knowledge and administrative experience on, Windows and UNIX Platforms
·         Strong working knowledge of IP network designs and security fundamentals, including FWs, Routers and ACLs

Preferred Skills
·         Prior experience with mid-range and mainframe operating environments - Tandem, MVS, TPF, OS-400
·         Awareness of PCI/CISSP programs, Security and Operations framework certification preferred
·         Advanced degree, continuing education, certification (e.g. CISSP, BS degree in CS or a related field) with related experience a plus though not required

Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE and available for F2F interviews apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

Thanks!

Newly Created role: Senior Specialist - Cloud Computing (VMware)


This is an individual contributor role responsible for solving complex problems and taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.  This role serves as a technical/functional specialist and works independently with guidance only in the most complex situations.

Qualifications:
·         7-12 years of experience, possessing expert knowledge in Cloud computing technology, Windows operating system, and applications deployments
·         Experience deploying and maintaining highly-available and highly-secure Windows based workloads and applications in a highly-available and highly-secure Cloud environment  
·         Software language expertise in C++, Perl, SQL, Java, PHP, Windows scripting
·         Software development experience in Agile, VC++.NET, Windows API, XML, Spring, Java ME/EE.
·         Cloud computing knowledge in VMware Data Centre virtualization and preferably vblock.
·         Knowledge in multiple OS, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS and windows.
·         Knowledge in HP OO, Cisco Tidal or equivalent automation tool preferred.
·         Extensive experience in software scripting and process automation.
·         Hands-on Citrix experience (i.e support, installation and architecture) 
·         MCSE certification or equivalent work experience 
·         Hands on VMWare (i.e. support, installation, and architecture)
·         Ability to write technical design and build documentation for all aspects of a technical infrastructure
·         Experience in an application hosting or data center environment
·         Strong project management skills and ITIL certification preferred
·         Extensive networking background preferred

Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE and available for F2F interviews may apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com
 
Qualified and Shortlisted candidates will definitely be contacted by our team. Thanks!

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Info Security Specialist - Opportunity to explore with a Global Payment Services Organization.

Opportunity to join a growing, fast-paced and high-performance Cyber Security team. The ideal candidate for this Senior Incident Response position will be an experienced professional and strong leader who will work with others to conduct critical network investigations and make essential business practice recommendations. The candidate will manage the escalation of computer security events from multiple sources, validate and verify these events as security incidents, and then resolve the incidents.

The successful candidate will act as Subject Matter Expert with a broad understanding of Information Technology Security practices with a strong understanding of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks, hacking techniques and associated defensive techniques.

Required Qualifications
·         5-12 years of experience in Information Security, with a concentrated focus on Incident Response, Forensics, Investigations and Case Management experience
·         Advanced level experience using network and system forensics tools (Encase, FTK and F-Response)
·         Familiarity with malware reverse engineering and ethical hacking is a major plus
·         Strong knowledge and administrative experience on Windows and UNIX platforms
·         Knowledge of mid-range and mainframe operating environments - Tandem, MVS, TPF, OS-400 preferred
·         Candidate must possess a strong aptitude for Risk Management
·         CFCE, GCIH, GCFA, EnCE CHFI, GCIA, GCED, GPEN Certifications preferred

Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE and available for F2F interviews may apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com
  
Qualified and Shortlisted candidates will definitely be contacted by our team. Thanks!

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Unix Administration Specialist - Permanent role with a Financial Giant in Singapore.


Job Scope
This is an individual contributor role responsible for solving complex problems and taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.  This role serves as a technical/functional specialist and works independently with guidance only in the most complex situations. This includes planning, design, evaluation, installation, deployment, and maintenance of the IT infrastructure for the data centres and office facilities.

Technical Requirements
·         In-depth hands-on experience with at least 2 of the following 3 Operating Systems:
o        AIX 6.1 or above
o        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
o        Solaris 10
·         In-depth experience with at least one enterprise class virtualization technologies – IBM LPAR, x86 VMware, or Solaris LDOM
·         Hardware experience across the IBM Power System product lines, and corresponding experience across x86 hardware deployments involving RHEL
·         Scripting experience and understanding in both Windows and UNIX environments
·         Must have experience in system monitoring techniques and tools supporting unattended operations and daily storage-related SAN/NAS alerts and activities
·         Ability to analyze, troubleshoot and solve issues with storage stack (Hosts, SAN switches and Storage Devices)
·         Must be willing to go on "On-call" support rotation

Professional Requirements
·         Typically requires a minimum of 5-7 years of relevant working experience
·         Broad knowledge in hardware, software, and applications deployments
·         Experience in an application hosting or data centre environment
·         Strong process orientation and a solid understanding of software development and testing techniques, methodologies and best practices are the primary requisite for this position
·         Strong project management skills
·         ITIL certification preferred

Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE and available for F2F interviews may apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com   

We encourage candidates with relevant experience to anticipate our initial confidential call. Thanks!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Development Manager / Leader - Technology - Newly Created role in Singapore.


Primary responsibility of the position will be to work with our business partners, ferret out appropriate requirements, complete projects initial solutions architecture (documented in a high level design document) and then, be available to development teams to assist in the management of all aspects of the development life cycle of a project.

Key Competencies/Required Experience:
·         12+ years of relevant professional experience (experience working in a global, matrix environment a plus)
·         Minimum actual demonstrable technical experience (10 years or more) in:
o    Windows development using ASP.NET and/or C#, Python, PHP
o    Interoperability and Interfaces with other platforms such as JAVA
o    SQL Server and MS IIS Administration and Programming
o    Building solutions that utilize Memcached appropriately.
o    Experience in SDLC
·         Experience working with large 3-tier applications including Networks, Security, Storage and Databases
·         Working knowledge of various relational databases including SQL Server, Oracle and DB2 strongly preferred
·         Proficiency in Windows, Unix/Linux operations systems, Shell scripting, middleware applications server, Clusters, Director servers, J2EE, MQ Series and XML
·         Demonstrated ability to build designs for integration of products and services and link the interdependencies between the systems.
·         Must work extensively with other groups, including Architects, Developers, Quality Assurance, Operations, Data Base Administrators, Program Managers and others
·         Experience in implementing projects using the Agile development methodologies.
·         Experience in managing development resources – both internal as well as external development partners.

Key responsibilities:
·         Act as the “region’s” (Asia Pacific) day-to-day contact for development resources that are located in this part of the globe. Specifically, manage resources that will be based in Singapore, Philippines and India.
·         Designing integration interface applications that could utilize several development tools including JAVA, .NET, C++, Python, PHP.
·         Participate in the creation of design specifications that will be the bases for development activities.
·         Work with developers (off shore) who are responsible for implementing the designs.

Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE and available for F2F interviews may apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com  

We encourage candidates with relevant experience to anticipate our initial confidential call. Thanks! 




Monday, October 24, 2011

DB2 UDB Administrator - Permanent roles with a Financial Services giant in Singapore.



JOB SCOPE
This role serves as a technical/functional specialist and works independently with guidance only in the most complex situations. Support Database Planning Engineering in the architecture, development and deployment of DB2 UDB on LUW database environments in high SLA environments.

REQUIREMENTS
·         5+ years of DBA experience, generally with one or more of the following DBMS platforms: DB2, Informix, Sybase, SQL Server, and Oracle.
·         Strong knowledge and extensive experience with Microsoft SQL server technologies is mandatory.
·         Sound knowledge of all UNIX and DB2 UDB utilities.
·         Should have strong windows platform skills and understanding of network, storage, tiered application environments and security.
·         Proficiency in writing SQL procedures, functions and packages for administration and application support.
·         Must have extensive experience installing, cloning, patching and upgrading DB2 UDB server and the underlying technology stack.
·         Strong knowledge of operating systems, scripting languages, data modeling and business intelligence tools.
·         Demonstrated ability to solve complex systems and database environment issues.
·         Work experience in a Financial Institute will be preferred.

Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE and available for F2F interviews may apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

We encourage candidates with relevant experience to anticipate our initial confidential call. Thanks! 

DB2 Mainframes (zOS) Administrator - Permanent roles with a Financial Services giant in Singapore.



JOB SCOPE
This role serves as a technical/functional specialist and works independently with guidance only in the most complex situations. Support Database Planning Engineering in the architecture, development and deployment of DB2 on zOS database environments in high SLA environments.  

REQUIREMENTS
·         5+ years of DBA experience, generally with one or more of the following DBMS platforms: DB2, Informix, Sybase, SQL Server, and Oracle.
·         At least two years experience in database administration for the z/OS operating system
·         Good working knowledge of JCL and ISPF
·         Basic knowledge of computer software, such as SQL, Clist, COBOL, etc
·         Good working knowledge with vendor DBA tools, such as CA DBA Admin tools, BMC, etc.
·         Must have extensive experience installing, cloning, patching and upgrading DB2 server and the underlying technology stack.
·         Demonstrated ability to solve complex systems and database environment issues.
·         Work experience in a Financial Institute will be preferred.

Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE and available for F2F interviews may apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com      

We encourage candidates with relevant experience to anticipate our initial confidential call. Thanks!

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Datawarehouse Business Leader (Risk Management) - Permanent Position with a Global Financial Services in Singapore.


The successful candidate will be based in Singapore and will manage a team of professionals dedicated to development and support of Risk Information products and services.  This Business Leader will have primary responsibility for managing the development life cycle of new initiatives in the Enterprise Risk business area. This job will entail roughly 10% travel primarily to United States and India.

Requirement

·         10 - 15 years of experience in designing and developing data-centric applications with demonstrated expertise in leveraging best practices and standard development methodologies.
·         Prior experience in development of Risk related datawarehouse projects is mandatory.
·         Prior experience in a development role in a data warehousing / ETL environment.
·         Ability to understand business requirements, architecture, development and implementation using systems development best practices.
·         Have a good working knowledge of the following platforms:  Ab Initio OR Informatica OR MicroStrategy, UNIX, relational databases, job scheduling tools, integration tools (WebSphere Integration Server, SSIS), ERWIN, data mining tools, data quality/profiler tools. 
·         Must work well in a fast-paced, changing environment and be able to manage multiple concurrent tasks and projects, all with different priorities.

Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE may apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com     

Only Talents who qualify for the above position would be considered and notified. Thanks!

Monday, October 10, 2011

Datawarehousing Lead - Permanent Position with a Global Financial Services in Singapore.


The successful candidate will be a hands-on manager in the Consolidated Master Log Service (CMLS) / Common Data Infrastructure (CDI) application area (batch and Data warehouse applications including Legacy applications).

QUALIFICATIONS:
  • 10+ years of experience in designing and developing data-centric applications.
  • Minimum 5 years experience managing a globally dispersed team of 10 or more developers.
  • Understanding of technical development using Ab Initio OR Informatica is a must.
  • Expert knowledge in Master Data Management (MDM).
  • Proven experience managing and mentoring a diverse team of experts, with and without a direct reporting relationship. Experience managing a dispersed team (preferably in the US, Singapore and India).
  • Ability to understand business requirements, architecture, development and implementation using systems development best practices.
  • Prior experience in a development role in a large data warehousing / ETL environment.
  • IBM Mainframe z-OS experience is a plus.
  • Experience in the Payments or Financial industries a plus.
  • Proven ability in delivering large scale global projects on time and within budget.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities and negotiate the best possible outcomes.
  • Must work well in a fast-paced, changing environment and be able to manage multiple concurrent tasks and projects, all with different priorities.
Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE may apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com    

Only Talents who qualify for the above position would be considered and notified. Thanks!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

J2EE Development - Permanent Opportunity with a Global Financial Services in Singapore.


JOB SCOPE

This role is an individual contributor role in the Clearing and Settlement department.  The successful candidate will become a recognized expert responsible for contributing to the development and functional strategy for clearing and settlement applications.  This position is responsible for solving unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business.

The division is responsible for overseeing the development and management of the global technology strategy, investment, approach, processes, complex systems and applications. Additional responsibilities are to deliver enterprise-wide planning, architecture, development, workforce management, implementation, and maintenance of the systems and technology.

REQUIREMENT

·         5+ Years of software design and development experience.
·         Strong working knowledge of J2EE, JSP, EJB's,  IBATIS, extJS, DWR (DirectWebRemoting) and JavaScript
·         Preferred skills
    • Savvion
    • Jasper Reports
    • J2EE Design Patterns
    • Hibernate Framework
    • DB2
    • Oracle 11i
·         Strong problem determination skills and ability to resolve critical issues for complex systems under tight timeframes.
·         Ability to understand systems from all levels, from the "big picture" enterprise-level view to the low level technical view.
·         Must be able to write technical design and build documentation for all aspects of a technical infrastructure.
·         Ability to represent technical and business issues and solutions to multiple levels internally and externally to support strategic organizational plans.
·         Experience with designing and developing solutions for highly scalable, highly available complex systems, preferably in the payment systems or other financial services industry.

Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE may send their resumes to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com   

Only Talents who qualify for the above position would be considered and notified. Thanks!

C# .Net Development - Permanent Opportunity with a Global Financial Services in Singapore.


JOB SCOPE

This role is an individual contributor role in the Clearing and Settlement department.  The successful candidate will become a recognized expert responsible for contributing to the development and functional strategy for clearing and settlement applications.  This position is responsible for solving unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business.

The division is responsible for overseeing the development and management of the global technology strategy, investment, approach, processes, complex systems and applications. Additional responsibilities are to deliver enterprise-wide planning, architecture, development, workforce management, implementation, and maintenance of the systems and technology.

REQUIREMENT

·         5+ Years of software design and development experience.
·         Strong working knowledge of J2EE, JSP, EJB's,  IBATIS, extJS, DWR (DirectWebRemoting) and JavaScript
·         Preferred skills
    • Savvion
    • Jasper Reports
    • J2EE Design Patterns
    • Hibernate Framework
    • DB2
    • Oracle 11i
·         Strong problem determination skills and ability to resolve critical issues for complex systems under tight timeframes.
·         Ability to understand systems from all levels, from the "big picture" enterprise-level view to the low level technical view.
·         Must be able to write technical design and build documentation for all aspects of a technical infrastructure.
·         Ability to represent technical and business issues and solutions to multiple levels internally and externally to support strategic organizational plans.
·         Experience with designing and developing solutions for highly scalable, highly available complex systems, preferably in the payment systems or other financial services industry.

Qualified and Interested Professionals who are currently in SINGAPORE may send their resumes to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com   

Only Talents who qualify for the above position would be considered and notified. Thanks!