This week I have been approached by a recruiter from BEA. She found my ostensibly dormant CV on Dice. Now for the punch line - they are looking for a senior software engineer to join the team working on the Network Gatekeeper (essentially, a glorified ParlayX framework featuring a typical panoply of protocols from SIP to MM7). I was excited to say the least.
The pinnacle of my career in the previous life was a 3-year stint in jNetX where we developed a JAIN SLEE-based service delivery platform. Although BEA chose to implement a less complex SIP Servlet paradigm for their application server together BEA WebLogic SIP Server and BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper comprise a stunningly close analogue to the platform I used to work on. Curiously enough (and judging from my LinkedIn contacts), it looks like many key people from the former Sun telco team moved on to BEA so here we have a kind of deja vu again.
Once upon a time I was trying to get BEA interested in my experience. Back then it was about the SIP Server team but the conversation did not go far mostly because two years ago I was not in the US. This time I am just about 30 miles from their office and after a 20-minute call the hiring manager invited me for a technical interview.
Now for the sad part. From what I've heard so far they are not really into hiring H1 contractors because of such organizational impediments as separate budgets for full-time folks and contractors. Which potentially puts in jeopardy my GC process. The AOS status came relatively quickly and painlessly to me but things seem to be changing to the worse in the USCIS so a visa transfer would be a highly desperate move.
I believe the interview (seemingly taking a whole day) will show - after all, even here there are only few people with the relevant experience. If I fit the position well I hope we will manage to make a deal one way or another. If I show insufficient prowess - well, judging from the last two years they periodically have vacancies in the telco team and nothing prevents me from tryig again once I have got my GC. So I am enjoying the fourth reading of the concurrency bible and lesser volumes on networking and the stuff. If nothing else, I would like to uphold the image of a jNetX alumnus :)
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