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RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce's client is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Validation Engineer to join their team in Sunnyvale, CA.Summary:You will be instrumental in assessing and integrating new cloud shapes and silicon technologies that power the 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.Responsibilities:- Validation Engineer will 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
- As a Validation Engineer, you will 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
REQUIREMENTS:
- BS degree in Computer Science or a related Engineering field or 5+ years of 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, and 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, post mortems
- A team player with the belief that teams can accomplish more together than as separate individuals
- Attention to detail, particularly around software engineering fundamentals, testing methodologies, and quality
- Strong sense of ownership, passion, and initiative to fix problems and optimize systems
The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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