Pivcon Job Application for Sr. Solution Engineer / Sr. System Administrator - Class N (Ref 202104-1)

This questionnaire is part of Pivcon's screening process and should only take you about 15 minutes to fill out.

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* 1. Full Name

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* 2. Phone Number

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* 3. E-Mail

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* 4. Mailing Address

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* 5. Please attach your Resume

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* 6. Please attach your Cover Letter (Recommended)

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* 7. Where do you Live?

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* 8. Office Working Environments

Numerous Pivcon employees work primarily from home offices.  However, they may also be required to work in a Pivcon assigned office, or may time-share between home office and corporate office, or may even spend some time on-location at a Customer's office.  Pivcon will not approve any locations outside of the United States. Are you or can you be setup to work efficiently,  remotely, from your home with reliable and high speed internet connection and are you comfortable you can be productive in each of those scenarios?

Note: Historically and especially right now during the COVID19 pandemic, over 95% of the time employees are working from home offices.  

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* 9. Highest Level of Education Attained

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* 10. Was your highest attained degree from an Nationally Accredited College or University?

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* 11. Please list all completed/conferred degrees, what they are in, and what college they are from here.  

If no degree, please enter "None" in the the "1st Degree" box.

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* 12. Please provide any Industry Certificates you have and what date they expire. We are still interested in knowing about expired certificates.

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* 13. Working Hours 

This position is an Exempt, Full-Time Professional Salaried Position.  Please confirm you can work at least 40 hours a week.

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* 14. Working Hours - System Maintenance Windows and Troubleshooting Issues

This is primarily a conventional Monday-Friday, 8-5 position. However, it has system administration and troubleshooting responsibilities which will require work during system maintenance windows which are often determined by our customers.

Will you be able to work during typical maintenance time windows which are usually outside of typical work hours?  This can include overnight hours, weekends, and days before or after holidays (Rarely is anything scheduled on actual holidays).

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* 15. Are you legally eligible to work in the United States and can show proof of citizenship/visa/alien registration if we decide to hire you?

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* 16. Can you speak, read, and write English fluently?

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* 17. US Government 6C Public Trust 

Pivcon has contracts with customers that have US Federal Government contracts and they require our employees to undergo background checks to obtain at least a 6C Public Trust, and potentially higher. This position will perform services for at least one of these customers. Background checks are conducted by agencies of the Government and not Pivcon, and may include convictions, credit, travel, personal associations, organization affiliations, past employer checks, and personal reference checks.

If you are not aware of the extensiveness of a 6C Public Trust background check, please review this form.  You would not need to do this until after you are hired.

Sample Public Trust Application Form

Based on this information please choose one from the following list that best matches your circumstances:

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* 18. Minimum Requirements Review

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* 19. Please specify how many of years experience you have in each of these high level areas of system/network administration.  

You must answer every row for it to submit.  Select "none" if you don't have experience in a row.



  None 1 to 11 Months 1 - 1.9 Years 2 - 2.9 Years 3 - 3.9 Years 4 - 5.9 Years 6 - 7.9 Years 8 - 9.9 Years 10+ Years
General Sys/Net Administration
Windows Server
Linux
Routers/Firewall
IPv4/IPv6
DNS
Virtual Machine Hypervisors
Load Balancing
AWS Cloud Computing
Azure Cloud Computing
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
System Management Scripting
DevOps Scripting
Software Development
RAID/Storage Management
Managing Microsoft Internet Information Services
Managing Linux Web Services (Apache, Nginx)
Database Servers
Network/System Documentation
Managing Microsoft SQL Server Data Mirroring and Backup/Recovery

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* 20. Please specify how many of years of experience you have in each of the following AWS Cloud Technologies

You must answer every row for it to submit. Select "none" if you don't have experience in a row.

  None 1 to 11 Months 1 - 1.9 Years 2 - 2.9 Years 3 - 3.9 Years 4 - 5.9 Years 6+ Years
VPC
EC2
EBS
S3
Route53
Load Balancing
Direct Connect
Systems Manager
SNS
Lambda
Glacier
CloudFront
CloudWatch
Kinesis
SQS
RDS
ElasticCache
Network/System Documentation
Redshift
ElasticSearch

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* 21. Please specify how many of years experience you have in each of the following Scripting/Development technologies 

You must answer every row for it to submit. Select "none" if you don't have experience in a row.

  None 1 - 11 Months 1 - 1.9 Years 2 - 2.9 Years 3 - 3.9 Years 4 - 5.9 Years 6+ Years
Command/Batch Files  (.bat/.cmd)
PowerShell
BASH Scripts
Other Shell Scripts (csh, ksh, etc.)
Javascript
Node.js
Python
Perl
C/C++
C#
ASP.Net 
ASP.Net MVC
Java
git
Docker
Jenkins
Puppet
Ansible
REST APIs
GRAPH GL APIs
SOAP/XML APIs
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Oracle SQL
MongoDB

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* 22. Please rate your skill and comfort with written and oral communication.

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* 23. Please rate your ability to respond to requests from multiple sources and balance responsibilities.

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* 24. These are not required skills, but are desired.  Please let us know if you have any of them and how much experience you have in them.

You must answer every row for it to submit. Select "none" if you don't have experience in a row.

  None 1 to 11 Months 1 - 1.9 Years 2 - 2.9 Years 3 - 3.9 Years 4 - 5.9 Years 6+ Years
SharePoint 2013 or newer
Setting up a enterprise PKI system
Managing certificates in a enterprise PKI system
Experience with encryption and public key cryptography
Experience with tokenization of PII
Famaliarity with Federal Certification and Accrediation (C&A) Processes
Experience with SIEM systems
Experience with EDR systems
Experience with SOAR systems
Experience with UBA/UEBA systems
Experience with FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002) - Low and Moderate Impact Levels

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* 25. Physical Demands of Job

The physical demand described here are representative of those that may need to be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

With performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, and hear.  The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.  The employee is occasionally required to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. The employee must be able to administer systems, computers, computer peripherals, and networks, by analyzing logs, analyzing screen output, entering commands, entering data, manipulating graphical user interfaces as well as textual interfaces, etc. 

Can you perform all these functions?

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* 26. Please provide your salary requirements. 

We understand that salary, benefits, location, work/life balance, how interesting the job is, etc, are all components of making a decision about a job.  You may answer with a range as we understand its dependent on all of these factors and you likely need to learn more about the job to provide a tighter range.  However, we also want to use time efficiently and if your minimum salary requirements are much higher than the budget, or is not inline with education and experience you hold, then its important we identify that early in the process.  We encourage you to not list a value lower than what you would happily accept for your ideal job with ideal benefits.

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* 27. Anything Else?

Please enter any additional information you would like us to know when considering your application that may not be covered in this questionnaire or on your resume.

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