Hardware engineer

Introduction
Looking for a Hardware Engineer to work on our mainframe squad with a focus on card recovery and service testing. This job role provides a wide range of technical experiences from hardware handling to running programs on a variety of operating systems. It also offers a lot of troubleshooting investigation and problem resolution. This encompasses several sub-roles including: machine configuration operation maintenance error handling and investigation troubleshooting bugs defect reporting operating system knowledge and workload execution. In addition there is a strong desire to transform traditional test methods to a more automated approach which will require a moderate amount of programming & scripting.

We need someone with the drive to find machine bugs and work with our development team until the issue has been resolved. A team player is a must! In order to ensure success the candidate will need a willingness to continuously seek education to build their skills. This along with a desire to replace traditional manually initiated workload/testing with automated execution techniques will be a big plus.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As the IBM zSystems hardware engineer you will will be responsible for:

• Executing a variety of stress and functional tests throughout a defined test schedule to ensure a quality product for our mainframe customers
• Grow knowledge of physical server design and logical constructs behind its operation
• Hardware handling maintenance changes and manipulation
• Working with multiple Z mainframe operating systems to execute workloads that are used to verify the latest hardware and firmware deliveries
• Large amount of troubleshooting investigation and problem resolution
• Working with firmware development to understand the technical details of new firmware features in order to design appropriate test scenarios and workloads to validate them
• Identify existing manual test scenarios and workloads and design programmatic automation to replace them

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 4 – 8 years of experience working with Device driver Hardware firmware testing
• Some basic industry knowledge is required – navigating Windows & Linux environments with a range of software applications
• General basic knowledge of things like command line operations file systems and operations is needed
• Basic scripting knowledge such as with Python bash or something similar
• Knowledge of Z mainframe systems in some capacity
• Communication skills are key to working within Engineering System Test and with development teams around the world

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Linux – Knowledge in Linux Containers( example Podman)
• z/OS and z/CX
• AI Models
• RAS
• Experience writing and executing test plans with the ability to ensure proper coverage based on customer requirements and workloads and perform regression testing
• Hardware troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge of Agile practices
• Ability to handle testing and debugging tasks independently
• Strong team player with good communication (verbal/written) and interpersonal.