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  • Job List Number:
    		• FT0092
  • Date Position Opened:
    		• 07/17/2005
  • Last updated/renewed:
    		• 08/02/2005
  • Job Title:
    		• Build and Release Engineers
  • Job Type:
    		• Fulltime
  • Location:
    		• Cambridge, MA
  • Job Description:
  • Run, debug, and maintain VMware's build and release process
  • Provide daily and nightly build support for engineering and QA.
  • Run custom builds as needed.
  • Monitor running builds and spearhead broken build issues.
  • Provide fast turnaround on build issues during release cycle.
  • Develop, debug, and maintain VMware's internal tools including
  • Official build process
  • Tinderbox build system
  • Developer build tools
  • Source control wrappers and tools
  • Build reporting and statistics
  • Internal build group productivity tools
  • Work with Purify and other Windows and Linux
  • debugging tools.
  • Integrate third party debugging tools into build process
  • Develop web based tools to report on build, branch, and project status for use by developers and product managers
  • Manage Perforce source control system
  • Deal with Perforce optimization, performance, backup and recovery operations.
  • Provide end user support for developer, QA, doc team Perforce users.
  • Support, modify, and expand current Makefile based build system on Windows and Linux.
  • Help support InstallShield on Windows
  • Maintain and upgrade
  • InstallShield installations on build machines
  • Debug and fix InstallShield build issues
  • Deal with Linux kernel upgrade issues for the VMware product
  • Compile custom VMware modules for all new major Linux kernel releases
  • Create escrow media and official CDs to be delivered to manufacturing
  • Support .NET build environment on Windows. Help design .NET build environment and debug .NET build and development problems
  • Work on 64 bit cross compilation environment. Deal with 64 bit build issues.
  • Create and manage official release media and escrow media
  • Required Skills:
  • Prior lead / management experience is a must
  • Perforce
  • CVS
  • Linux
  • ability to configure and build Linux kernel
  • experience working with gcc
  • shell programming (bash/csh)
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows .NET
  • InstallShield
  • scripting (DOS, VB, or others)
  • Cygwin
  • Strong Perl skills including using Perl for web content
  • Strong regex skills
  • Purify or other debugging tools
  • HTML, CGI, webserver configuration
  • Experience with cross compilation environments
  • Experience with complex GNU make based makefiles
  • Experience managing Linux and Windows boxes.
  • Some knowledge of C/C++ in order to debug
  • compilation and linking issues.
  • Contact Company:
    		• VMware
  • Co's Job Req. Number:
  • Company Type:
    		• Direct Hire
  • Contact Person:
    		• Loren Bryand
  • Contact Phone Number:
    		• 617-300-7080
  • Contact Email address:
    		• lbryand@vmware.com
  • Contact web address:
    		• http://www.vmware.com/
  • Pay Range:
    		• DOE
  • Bonus:
  • Additional Comments:
  • VMware has established an R&D facility in Cambridge, MA, that will work hand in hand with the R&D staff at our Palo Alto, CA HQ. We are experiencing tremendous growth. The company has pioneered server virtualization technology and has doubled it's revenues and the number of employees each of the last 3 years, with revenue headed toward $400M in 2005 and headcount at 1,100.
  • The VMware staff is one of the finest in the software industry, with numerous graduates of top CS programs at MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU and others. This is truly one of the most interesting and challenging software development opportunities in New England, at this time. If you or someone you know is interested, please call me for more information.
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