Server Hardware/Infrastructure Engineer

**Hybrid - Jersey City 3x/week
***Must be able to work on W2 without sponsorship
Our financial client is seeking a Hardware Engineer to join our Enterprise Technology and Infrastructure Platforms division. The team manages x86 server environment on all our data centers, globally. This is a great opportunity for an engineer who is passionate in working hands on with the latest data center server technology, including performance, failure and resiliency testing, researching new features around data center cooling, power management and core densification, large scale deployment and lifecycle management in Production through automation, and analyzing historical trend data.
TOP SKILLS
Testing - they must know how to test hardware. Know how the computer works but know how it breaks, how it runs in production. What you do with the tests is almost as important as the test itself.
Building and maintaining extensive lab automation using technologies such as Ansible and Terraform
Server based testing. They write all of the automation.
Role is more about the engineering versus installation and managing.
Responsibilities:
Working with end users to define requirements and associated test cases for validation.
Ensuring a tight loop between hardware qualification and user requirements
Publishing insights from performance & power testing.
Writing tests, creating bare metal servers and configuring OSs, leveraging vendor tools
Building and maintaining extensive lab automation using technologies such as Ansible and Terraform.
Conducting performance testing using frameworks like Phoronix.
Performing paper analysis/comparisons of features and functionality, including market comparisons to other on prem and cloud providers
Minimum Qualifications:
BS or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
7 years of experience in hands-on engineering to build systems/products for datacenter environments, large scale gaming environments, or similar
7 years of experience with proven troubleshooting skills in the server hardware space
Strong experience with PCIe, Networking, Flash, Memory, CPU, GPU, DRAM (DDR4/5 or HBM).
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with scripting in Linux (Bash, CLI, ILO, RedFish, SSACLI, STOCLI, etc).
Working knowledge of RHEL/CentOS and Windows.
Experience with BIOS, firmware, and patch validation.
Experience with performance testing of servers using a server virtualization stack, such as VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, or KVM
Administrative knowledge of JIRA, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.