Systems Engineer - Seattle, United States - TEKsystems

Description

TEKsystems is seeking multiple Systems Engineers to support our enterprise technology client on their long term project for broadband connectivity
5 days onsite in Redmond, WA - must reside in Seattle/Redmond area
Must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the US. Client does not offer sponsorship.

Experience Level:
Intermediate Level Systems Engineering

Required Skills:

• Linux Ubuntu
• Network Support/troubleshooting
• hardware support
• lab environment exp.
• Python

Top Skills' Details

• Linux Ubuntu is a must, need to know how to access hosts and commands
• Experience working in a lab environment working hands on building out equipment, for instance racks and hosts etc. Experience working in the same field of work is a huge plus
• Networking experience is required, for instance working with VLAN's and external networks
• Need to know how to run Bash or Python scripts and see where it's failing, automation from scratch is not required

Description:

The client's project is an ambitious initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

The networking group is responsible for moving customer traffic across the client's hardware.

The Software Health Automation team owns labs, infrastructure and services used to raise the quality bar by creating robust CI/CD systems that build and test the code on real hardware.

In this role, you will design, build and maintain the lab infrastructure.

You will be hands on, making sure lab devices are available for testing, while scaling team's processes to ensure long term success.

You will work hand in hand with development teams from software and hardware as well as program management and other stakeholders to make sure we can rapidly deliver high quality software.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or comparable industry experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship professional IT experience in any of the following: test lab support, operational hardware support.
• 2+ years experience organizing and maintaining stock of critical test equipment, third party devices, prototype devices for troubleshooting and debug.
• 2+ years experience in project management skills including resource planning, managing schedules, reporting project status and prioritizing own tasks and those of other team members for multiple projects.
• Manage your own time and work well both independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to interact efficiently with peers and customers.
• Highly organized and autonomous, very detail oriented and willing to learn new skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of Linux and Windows operating system
• Experience in computer networking (admin level) in a Consumer Electronics (or similar) lab environment.
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, evaluate alternatives and develop processes and tools as needed to support the organization
• Experience in developing/maintaining product test harnesses
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
• Experience with embedded systems and consumer devices
• Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
• Experience in the use of standard electronic lab test equipment (i.e., oscilloscopes, multimeters, etc.)

Key Responsibilities

• Design, set up and maintain test fixtures to verify software on real hardware, create and maintain lab documentation
• Troubleshoot hardware, software and networking issues
• Contribute to engineering efforts from design to implementation, solving complex technical challenges around developer and engineering productivity and velocity especially as it relates to rapid test iteration
• Drive adoption of best practices in testbed maintainability
• Manage equipment stock, procure lab equipment
• Participate in lab on-call rotation to ensure lab equipment uptime meets SLA
• Provide lab services to people working remotely (be the eyes and hands in the lab)
• Provide technical support to customers using the lab

A day in the life:
The successful applicant will be experienced in keeping technical infrastructure running smoothly and balancing high priority issues. You should be comfortable taking on ambiguous challenges like setting up new pre-production hardware for the first time.

You should be able to define SOPs, metrics and alarms to keep equipment and test infrastructure highly available and expand the teams capabilities over time.

You will be invaluable to enabling the team to move quickly and confidently with robust verification frameworks that scale with our systems.

About the team
The team owns labs, tools and software for verifying the quality of our networking equipment before release. This software will be operating both on the ground and in space. The team raises our high quality bar before our software reaches customers.

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.