This is being posted with the permission of the list owner. (My sincere
thanks, Jean!)
The infrastructure team I work with has three openings for mainframe
developers and/or product support personnel who have experience with any
useful combination of the following: Assembler, C, dump reading, SMP/E,
security systems (RACF/ACF2/TSS), etc. We are looking for people who can
read dumps (at least a little bit), write code to fix bugs, and develop new
stuff in Assembler and/or C. We assume you know JCL, TSO, ISPF, how to get
around an MVS system, and read IBM doc. If you are not a self-starter,
please don't bother (we're not going to do your job for you, and in many
cases the only documentation that exists is the code itself). It's OK to
have to refer to POPS to make sure you know how something works, but if you
can't understand it or won't use it, please don't bother. These positions
do
NOT require specific MVS subsystem knowledge (JESn, IMS, DB2, CICS, etc.),
but if you have any we won't hold it against you (other groups concern
themselves with those things). We deal with common, core, bare-metal MVS
services for the most part.
In other words, these jobs are perfect for people who like to hang out here
(provided that your interests and talents are not limited to esoteric
trivia
... I can probably beat you at that game). I can't think of a better place
to look for candidates, which is why I am asking. Most of the group has
been
together for 23+ years, but we are getting gray, some have retired or moved
on, so we need more like us ... gray hair or otherwise. Clearly, age is NOT
an issue. Brains ARE the issue.
There is no "location" for these positions. While I live near Houston TX,
most mainframe developers, product support and QA folks work from home. Few
people have an office; most don't live near one in the first place. Our
four
zEC12 and z196 boxes are in Arizona, anyway, so everybody actually works
remotely. The team members live at locations that span 12 time zones (from
Hawaii to Russia & Israel). We do virtually everything online or on the
phone, so we really don't care where you live. These positions are perfect
for people who want to work, but don't want to move.
If you have potential interest, please respond to me, individually, at my
personal email address. My email client can apparently neither provide nor
override the default Reply-To address for messages I send to the list;
therefore, do not mindlessly use either "Reply" or "Reply All" (I guess you
should consider that the first part of the IQ and
ability-to-follow-directions test). Instead, please direct your response to
me personally at mailto:[email protected]. There is no need to forward
your resume; I am not interested in reading it at this time. Instead, I
will
tell you more about the positions, answer any questions you might then
have,
and tell you how to formally indicate interest (i.e., begin the application
process).
[email protected]
William H. Blair
MainView Infrastructure
BMC Software Houston TX
