Network Administrator

I am an attorney in the Washington DC area, and I have identified a need among many of my small business clients for a more organized IT effort. I currently use an Asterisk based PBX that is share with three other entities for a total of about 100 extensions. in addition we share a network which consists of a Hyper-V server running several VMs in a co-location center with user nodes in Boston, Pennsylvania, Cleveland and remote individual users as close as the same town and as far away as Puerto Rico. Thus far this has simply been a co-operative effort but unfortunately the IT professionals at the related companies have not been necessarily carrying their load. I am giving thought to creating business which would provide VoIP service and Network support on a contract basis to small businesses. This would dovetail into my small business law practice and the practice of my brother who is a CPA, I envision reconfiguration of the network to have a unified Widows Domain for administration, Elastic server (we now use) or FusionPBX for telephony, and a combination of Vyos (Vyatta) and DD-Wrt routers. I am thinking that we would provide both phone and network service (scheduled backups etc) to begin, and expand, if there is proof of concept, into application help desk support, answering service, virtual assistant support and perhaps web development for customers.

I am looking for a person that could rebuild/manage this network remotely, leaving me only to be "hands only" locally, and to lead the technical and off shore sides of this enterprise in the future.

The position is 40 hours per week (on US Time to start), starting at Php25,000 ($500 USD) per month. If concept is proven and system is built, I would think within 3 months should be at Php30,000 ($600 USD), with further advances based on how business develops. If the concept proves out I am looking for someone to grow with the concept and lead the technical side of this venture, I foresee an industry where support and support staff is largely off shore with a limited staff in house to provide local hands on support. I would hope that our concept grows in a couple of years to a small call center.

An successful applicant will have some experience/education in networking/routing, Windows Active Directory with experience VoIP a big plus.