Amit Roseberger

Zend Technologies is looking for a Senior Windows Integration Engineer to lead its Windows Integration Team.

The full Job Description should be available on Zend.com within a few hours (after some forms are filled..)

But, for the quick ones among you, feel free to send CVs to Liat Mena – liat.m@zend.com from our HR dept.

Good luck.

Area of Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for the technical integration of all Zend Server for Windows deliveries.
2. Responsible to solve and report all PHP on Windows build issues and coordinate their resolution with the appropriate Zend department or with the PHP community members through the appropriate forums and mailing lists.
3. Responsible to communicate all PHP on Windows activity through forums mails etc. to the Zend R&D manager (e.g. update of used libraries, security issues, news etc.)
4. Provide second tear support for all Zend Server and Zend Core issues on Windows.
5. Provide first tear of internal support for both Core and Zend Server to the Zend QA team.
6. Work together with our Linux integration team members to make sure our build environment is aligned and optimized.
7. Responsible to prioritize and define all Windows integration development projects (MSI development, builds etc.) together with our Product Management team.

Successful Candidate Qualifications:

1. Ability to prioritize and coordinate action items for the Windows team members.
2. Responsive and responsible.
3. A deep understanding of the Windows API (Win32) and the Microsoft Windows SDK.
4. Real world, proven, experience with C/C++ development and software integration (MS Visual Studio) for different versions of the Windows Operating System (e.g. Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows XP/Vista, WOW 64).
5. Experience with developing in C# or VB.NET.
6. Experienced with the Microsoft IIS Web server (IIS 6 is a must, IIS 7 is an advantage)
7. Very good communication skills and especially the ability to remotely cooperate with other teams (Internally or third party).
8. Excellent read and written English skills.
9. Self starter, eager to try new technologies and getting a kick from solving complex compilation issues.
10. BSc. in Computer Sciences or equivalent experience.

Advantages

1. Proven, real world experience, developing commercial product installations with InstallShield or Microsoft Installer (MSI).
2. Experience managing a small development team.
3. Experience with alternative Microsoft Windows building environments (e.g. Cygwin or MinGW).
4. Very good acquaintance of commercial PHP Web solutions like SugarCRM, WordPress or Drupal.
5. Experience developing Web applications using PHP or involvement in an active open source project.
6. Acquaintance with the Zend Framework and the MVC model.
7. Deep understanding of the Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP stacks (LAMP).
8. Acquaintance with various PHP stack distributions (e.g. XAMPP).

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It is a happy day at Zend Technologies.

After major effort has been invested, another cycle is complete (o.k. almost complete..) and a new Zend Product is ready for Beta.

I was lucky to witness the product development cycle from concept phase to quality assurance and I can say that apart from being a very enriching experience from a professional POV,  it was also impressive to see a group of talented people work together on a  shared goal with such enthusiasm.

I’ll leave it up to you to try it out…

Amit

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I saw quite a few Zend weddings during the past 8 years but this one had something almost magical in it.

It was also nice to see some people who have been working for Zend in the past and came to celebrate with Zeev and Anya.

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Should have done it long time ago but anyway… I am now officially part of the civilized world

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It wasn’t a trivial task at all to do but we’ve made it!

This morning when Ori and I were on our way to our meeting with the Microsoft team, one of the Microsoft senior product managers  caught us in the parking lot and congratulated us for passing the certification, anyway, it couldn’t be made without the hard work of the Zend Core group so well done everyone – you have definitely earned you Certified for Windows Server 2008 T-Shirt.

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Although not developed in my group it is still a very impressive achievement early reports are very positive about the  product which is the result of a very close work between Zend and the Eclipse community.

Well Done everyone! we are definitely in the correct direction

The Zend Studio is available for download from the Zend Site and is now offered in a special price.

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