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Position: System Engineer
Number of Openings: 2
Duration: 6-month assignment with possibility for extension based on performance
Location: Hillsboro, OR (100% onsite) + travel to local labs and data centers
Job Description:
Client is now looking for a motivated Engineering Technician for Client on-premise, private cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will be faced with the challenge of providing and maintaining a compute farm of systems which includes Builders, Packagers, and Testers that act as a test-bed for our developers worldwide to test various Client's hardware and software prior to release.
What You'll Do:
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams (system architects, hardware/software engineers, QA, and more) to craft, develop, debug, and release next-generation products.
- Manage and maintain a high-performing fleet of builders, packagers, testers, and core infrastructure.
- Ensure availability targets are consistently met and lead system recovery efforts.
- Coordinate inventory and lifecycle management tasks across labs and data centers.
- Fix software, hardware, and infrastructure issues alongside engineers and platform operations teams.
- Plan, deploy, and maintain on-premises infrastructure, collaborating with datacenter and network engineering teams.
- Implement efficiency improvements to improve availability, throughput, and test accuracy while meeting SLAs and important metrics.
- Represent the team in meetings with internal collaborators and contribute to global operations.
What We Need to See:
- Associate's or Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Technical Major (or equivalent experience).
- Proven experience in data centers or large engineering labs.
- Familiarity with SCMs like GIT/Perforce.
- Proficiency in DCIM (Nautobot, etc.) and scripting (shell, Python, Ansible).
- Working knowledge of protocols/services like TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, SSL, etc.
- Experience with Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems.
- Hands-on experience with PCBs, GPUs, and system deployments.
- Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative spirit.
- Strong background in systems engineering and administration, with an understanding of dense datacenter design, including compute, storage, and networking.
Qualifications/Key Responsibilities:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
- Manager is looking for candidates with a background in software and hardware.
- Windows, MacOS, Linux.
- DCIM Tools (Nautobot).
- Scripting (Shell, Python, Ansible).
- Experience/interest in GPgaming.
- Hillsboro team focuses on the enterprise side of things / rack & stack.