System Validation Engineer

Role Title: System Validation Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Duration: 12 Months of Contract with high possibility of extension

Description:

• Client is seeking a highly skilled and motivated System Validation Engineer to join our team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will be instrumental in assessing and integrating new cloud shapes and silicon technologies that power Client's business critical applications and platforms. This position offers a highly empowering work environment where your contributions will directly impact our operational success and enhance user experiences, aligning with our core values of ambition, care, safety, and diversity.

Job Responsibilities:

• Perform validation and benchmarking for all cloud shapes, instances, and kernels
• Perform qualifications for new hardware, components, firmware, and kernel for on-prem production environments
• Perform qualifications of firmware, and kernel for cloud production environments as needed
• Generate high quality reports for all qualifications and benchmarking cases
• Validate and provide feedback (user experience) on our qualification and benchmarking platform
• Provide support for our architects by creating documentation and testing runbooks from/for vendors
• Work with vendors and debug hardware issues found in production and during quals.
• Provide support for our Reliability Eng team in debugging on-prem hardware issues, including interfacing with our hardware vendors
• Manage Sunnyvale’s lab to support the needs for internal engineers

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field, оr 5+ years equivalent industry experience
• Solid understanding of server hardware at scale: data center network fundamentals, OS imaging, provisioning, distribution, and configuration deployment at a large scale.
• Strong understanding of qualification processes, and test tools.
• Strong hands-on experience with Linux investigations and debugging performance problems.
• Strong understanding of server hardware & its software dependencies (BIOS, firmware, etc.)
• Experiences with multiple scripting and programming languages, e.g., C/C++, Python, Go, etc.
• Cloud experience, preferably with GCP, OCI, AWS
• Ability to drive issues and collaborate with vendors, within the team, and across teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to write detailed design documents, postmortems