Zend Technologies, one of the major commercial drivers behind PHP, is
seeking robust technical experts to support our growing PHP services
business full-time. In this role of Technical Consultant, you would be
Zend's "person on the ground" working with some of the biggest
mission-critical PHP implementations on the planet, providing
expert-level training services, and advancing the use of PHP in
Enterprise systems.

Job Responsibilities:

- You will be responsible for delivering solutions to your clients
on-time and on-spec.

- You will be responsible for thinking on your feet and provide
intelligent, solution-oriented answers to clients in Zend's
extensive client portfolio in a diplomatic fashion

- You will be responsible for keeping good accounting practices,
both of time spent working with clients and any expenses you
personally incur during an engagement


Expectations:

- You will be expected to be up-to-date with the latest and
greatest PHP technologies, including Zend's product line, and be
able to effectively use them to solve problems big and small

- You will be expected to be able to fill many different roles
depending on client need from development, to code audits, to
performance tuning, to leading a team of developers

- You will be expected not to know everything about everything,
and be eager to work with your colleagues within Zend to grow
professionally while providing the best solutions to the client

- You will be expected to travel to the client and work directly
with them on-site as needed

Job Perks:

- Remote friendly full time position

- Work with some of the most brilliant minds in the industry on
top-shelf PHP-centric projects

- Build an impressive career portfolio of PHP solutions

- Gain unparalleled experience in real-world PHP deployments and
integrations

- Competitive Bay-Area Salary

- Corporate Benefits Package

Requirement Specifics:

- Advanced technical knowledge of PHP 5 and related technologies
such as XML, SQL and HTML

- Working knowledge of MVC, SOAP, SOA, DOM, Javascript and AJAX

- Strong software architecture skills in both an object-oriented
and procedural environment and a working knowledge of design
patterns

- System administration skills in both a UNIX and Windows
environment

- Version control system experience

- Strong system integration skills

- Excellent solution-oriented people skills

- Must be able to articulate advanced technical solutions and
concepts to people of all levels of technical expertise

Desirable:

- Prior Experience in software consulting

- Open source involvement

- Proficiency in multiple programming languages

All interested parties must provide with their resume examples of their
PHP coding expertise in the form of two code examples demonstrating your
PHP 5 knowledge and architectural skill to John Coggeshall john@zend.com