Location: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (Central Oakland County)

Department: Engineering

Short Description: 5+ years of solid Visual Basic / Visual Basic .NET experience.

Job Description: Lakeside Software Inc. develops best-of-breed enterprise systems management solutions that span large enterprises, governments, small and medium-sized businesses helping to track system configuration information, system changes and performance data at a detailed level. This data is utilized for troubleshooting, security, end user experience monitoring and compliance.

A person in this position will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing existing GUI software that analyzes and reports on data collected on networks of up to and beyond 100,000 workstations, servers and or terminal servers in the most efficient way possible. This information is stored in distributed databases which are accessible at times from the systems which are running the analysis. A fundamental knowledge of databases and SQL is required on a daily basis.

Our customer networks are vast and therefore the scalability, timeliness and sensitivity of collected data are paramount to our value as an enterprise management solution.

The ideal candidate is proficient in Visual Basic, Windows GUI Development, COM, ADO, TSQL, SQL server, Oracle, and or PLSQL.

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of existing software products as problems are found in Quality Assurance and in the field.
• Writing software to test code new and existing code to prove scalability.
• Design and implementation of analysis software.
• Design and implementation of database queries needed to analyze and collect systems management data.
• Testing new and existing software and problem resolution.

Required Skills (Must Have):

• Five (5+) years of combined Visual Basic or Visual Basic .NET experience on software product or hosted service offerings (commercial or open source).
• A good understanding of object oriented design principals.
• Experience with Software Configuration Management (SCM) technologies such as Visual Source Safe, Team Foundation Server or Rational Clear Case.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or similar.
• Commercial software development experience.
• In-depth experience with GUI programming.
• Self motivated, ability to work with little definition and without supervision.
• Ability to interact and communicate with technical support, sales and customers to understand customer needs and solve them.

Preferred Skills:

• Strong database skills TSQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, ADO, MSJET.
• COM experience.
• IT Work Experience.
• Experience with installer technologies.
• Experience with network or host-based vulnerability assessment scanners.
• Solid understanding of the Internet Protocols (especially TCP & UDP) and IP-based routing.
• Experience developing security solutions.
• Knowledge of Windows Management Interface (WMI) APIs.