Thursday, December 22, 2011
Are you looking for a Network Engineer position with a leading Chicago technology organization? Are you looking for a position that encourages you to continue your professional growth with real world hands on exposure to a wide variety of today’s networking and security technologies? We are seeking to add an experienced engineer to our Managed Services team. Candidates should thrive in an open, fast-paced environment with a range of learning opportunities. This position will report to our Chicago office and service clients generally in the Chicago Land area.
We are a full service networking consultant team. We also maintain top-tier partnerships with industry leading hardware and software companies such as Cisco, Juniper, Check Point, Citrix, Riverbed, NetApp, F5, and Microsoft.
Responsibilities include:
- Support our customer’s engineers with questions or issues they may have
- Effectively interact with customers whose skills may range to Level 3 expert network engineers
- Engineer and implement Managed Services solutions
- Occasional face to face interactions with customers in pre-sales support role, installations, or onsite projects.
- Design, build & configure Routers, switches, firewalls, and other IT appliances
- Document and diagram clients environments
The following are essential for this position:
- Must have experience with an emphasis on client or customer support as a network engineer
- Must have solid current hands-on expertise with networking technologies – certification highly desired
- Must have solid experience with networking protocols such as BGP & OSPF
- Additionally other technologies such as Citrix, Check Point, F5, Juniper, Riverbed, NetApp experience and certifications a plus
- Proven record of organization and documentation skills
- Minimum of 3-5 years network engineering and support experience.
- Self-motivated and comfortable in a fast-paced startup culture.
- A “smart risk-taker” marked by creativity and strong problem solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral).
- BA/BS in information technology or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Expertise with a variety of tools used for monitoring and managing networks
Please provide desired salary and salary history on resume. If you feel that your skills are a match to our requirements, please email your resume in Word or text format to: resume@rkon.com
Friday, November 18, 2011
Video content including case studies, presentations, interviews, and panel discussion from RKON’s 8th Annual technology seminar at Arlington is now online. Click here to see industry leaders present on a range of IT topics including next generation data center, desktop virtualization, network monitoring, and security strategy, among others.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Riverbed promoted RKON to the Platinum level within their Riverbed Partner Network (RPN) Program, effective November 3, 2011. We were promoted as a result of our growing Riverbed practice—we integrate, consult, support, and provide managed services for Riverbed’s industry-leading WAN optimization and IT performance solutions for networks, applications, and storage.
Additionally, we are one of only four technology integrators in North America to be part of Riverbed Authorized Support Partner (RASP) program as a result of our delivery of high-value support services to Riverbed customers.
Click here to learn more about RKON’s Riverbed practice and solutions.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Riverbed announced the introduction of their new StingrayTM product line today. With Stingray, Riverbed now delivers even better performance from the application to the end user, improving employee productivity, and cutting the cost of IT infrastructure in the datacenter, cloud, and branch office. The Stingray product family is based on technologies acquired from Zeus Technology
Click here to read the press release announcing Stingray.
Click here to watch a quick 3 minute video about Stingray.
Stingray Traffic Manager: Deliver Fast, Secure, and Available Applications for Less Stingray Traffic Manager provides complete control over user traffic, allowing administrators to accelerate, optimize, and secure key business transactions. Available in several configurations to support any size enterprise, Stingray Traffic Manager monthly pricing starts at less than $200 per month.
Stingray Application Firewall: Secure Applications and Confidently Meet Compliance Requirements Stingray Application Firewall is a sophisticated, application-aware, web application firewall for deep application security. Stingray Application Firewall also enables compliance, including the payment card industry data security standard (PCI-DSS), and is available as an add-on that can be managed by Stingray Traffic Manager, or as a standalone solution.
Stingray Aptimizer: Web Content Optimization for Improved Performance Worldwide Stingray Aptimizer is a web accelerator that dynamically groups activities for fewer long distance round trips. Stingray Aptimizer compresses images to maximize available bandwidth, increases caching for faster repeat visits, and prioritizes actions to provide the best possible response time for loading web pages on any browser.
Date of Event: Thursday, October 13, 2011
On Thursday, October 13, at the Chicago Downtown Marriott, you can see the Check Point 2012 Appliance Line at their exclusive launch event. The new models offer:
- Triple performance
- Comprehensive Security
- Protection that spans from small businesses to large enterprises and data centers
Click here to learn more and register to attend the event.
Date of Event: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Join RKON Security Engineer Mike Attkinson on Thursday, September 22, at 6:15 p.m. as he gives a presentation on defending against the HID Prion at the Chicago Security Meetup. There will be free pizza and beer. Click here to learn more.
Date of Event: Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Join HP and RKON for a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) in Education Workshop on Wednesday October 12, from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Maggiano’s in Oak Brook, IL.
Solving Technology Challenges in Education K-12 with VDI: Workshop & Panel Discussion
Many educators are looking at VDI as a potential solution to the changing landscape in education. Join us for an in depth discussion on how VDI potentially can solve or help the following challenges:
- Delivering high quality education while dealing with recent budget cuts
- Increasing educator productivity by simplifying technology management
- Simplifying education lab refreshes while reducing costs
- How to leverage funding sources such as E-rate to fund VDI
Bring your technology challenges, pains, ideas, and questions to ask our expert panel and for us to whiteboard out in a collaborative session.
Register
Agenda
8:30a.m.—Registration
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.—Panel Discussion with VDI specialists, teachers, School IT and Finance directors, and other industry leaders.
9:30 – 10:00 a.m.—White Board Workshop/Solutions Overview
10:00 -12:30 p.m.—Lunch / Technology Demos / Q&A Session
Target Attendees
IT Directors, Finance and Operations, Educators, and others involved in K-12 IT.
Giveaway
All attendees will be entered into a raffle for an HP TouchPad!
Friday, September 9, 2011
RKON’s eighth annual seminar on Thursday, September 1, at Arlington park attracted a record 179 people. Attendees enjoyed interactive IT presentations about security, migrating to the cloud, data center consolidation, and next-generation data center and security strategies, among other topics. Presentations were in the form of interviews with clients, technology demos, and executive panel discussion. The afternoon consisted of a lunch buffet, networking along with networking as we watched the horses thunder down the stretch.
A special thank you to our sponsors this year: Juniper, RES Software, Citrix, Check Point, Riverbed, F5, WhipTail Tech, SafeNet, Sourcefire, Websense, LogRhythm, and Tufin.
To view pictures from the event, click here.
Date of Event: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
On Wednesday, October 19, 2011, RKON will speak on the topic “Desktop Virtualization Security: Understanding the Benefits and the Risks ” at CampIT’s Desktop Virtualization conference. The conference will cover strategies to help the business and IT benefit from virtualization strategies through effective management, security, and recovery techniques. RKON is co-sponsoring the event with partner WhipTail Tech. If you are interested in attending with one of RKON’s complimentary passes , contact your sales rep or email solutions@rkon.com today. To learn more about the conference, click here.
Date of Event: Monday, August 29, 2011
On Monday, August 29, join Citrix for a Summit/Synergy webinar and get the latest on Citrix solutions. By attending and filling out our questionnaire you will be entered to win an iPad2.
Click here to learn more and register.