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
