Automation/Compliance/Qualification Engineer

servers, components, and GPU based systems is preferred. The candidate should also be familiar with server hardware subsystems including processor memory storage, I/O adapters, PCI busses and switches, and BMCs. Familiarity with FW/BIOS updates and settings and network booting is preferred and knowledge of JIRA, Redfish, and xCAT, and security vulnerabilities/compliance along with patching of systems out of compliance is a definite advantage.

Your role and responsibilities

Candidate is responsible for Qualification of Servers and System Qualification and support of Field Deployments.
• Booting Servers to test for existence and functionality of all components
• Qualification of Server level Secure Boot and Memory Boot
• Confirming all Secure Measures and encryption measures are compliant
• Testing proprietary Baseboard Memory Control / OpenBMC on all server configurations
• Automation of tests using Redfish for new products and regression on existing products
• Qualification of each new vendor version of BMC, BIOS, and firmware code
• Checking network connections

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Required Skills - Candidate should be detail oriented with excellent documentation and communication skills and very comfortable/experienced in the following Lab Testing areas:• Ability to program using Linux and Python
• Good understanding/familiarity of Python coding/Redfish/OpenBMC
• Comfortable with Server level BMC, BIOS, and firmware
• Automation of BMC and BIOS firmware updates to the field
Familiarity with server bring-up including firmware/bios updates, bios settings, network boosting, and basic networking is very beneficialClear Documentation and Communication of Results• Strong understanding of server hardware and networking design

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred Skills: The preferred skills are a plus and candidates are not expected to possess all of these. On The Job training will be provided for new skills necessaryProficient at Qualification/Verification of server & component level Hardware & Firmware Functions, and Data AnalysisFamiliarity with server hardware design including processors, memory, storage drives, I/O adapters, BIOS, and BMC• Good understanding of server hardware and components (CPUs, DIMMs, Drives, NIC Cards, etc.)

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