Position Title: Hardware Test Automation and Engineering

Location: Menlo Park, CA (5 days Onsite)

Position: W2 Contract

Key Responsibilities:

•Create software tools and services and or custom fit existing services to customer requirements. e.g - source of truth asset management system.

•Perform network audits to evaluate: Capacity usage (BW, space, power, etc), unused devices.

•Configure & deploy dashboards to visualize KPIs from audits.

•Use best practices to deploy scripts for alerting, monitoring (telemetry gathering), and modifying configuration. Write and maintain documentation for scripts written and deployed.

•Drive Software release management, Test & Validation including Release life cycle management.

•Deploy & operate networks in public cloud environments.

•Development of test automation tooling/framework that can be used to interface and configure lab testbeds.

•Deploy agents to monitor networks by using internal tools and enriching existing data.

•Software expertise to develop code and or script to communicate with APIs, orchestration of test execution and data extraction.

•Working with test engineers to develop scripts, tools, capabilities that will accelerate the execution of various test campaigns.

•Work with test engineers during test campaigns to troubleshoot/debug, identify issues/fixes.

•Create documentation of lab testbeds, block diagrams, network diagrams, system configuration, runbooks/procedures, output reports.

•Configure & deploy dashboards to visualize KPIs from test data pipelines.

•Support PoC to deploy new systems, workflows or testing alternatives.

•Upgrade existing client tools like PPP, Basset with new category of HW devices e.g - chassis, systems, compute/network blade, asic, NIC.

•Write test automation scripts using keysight/ixia framework and integrate that with client internal tooling.

•Upgrade existing software and deployment packages to meet custom customer requirements and deploy to a fleet of lab devices.

•Design, deploy and manage backend networking for HPC cluster using L3 routing protocols, congestion control mechanism WRED-ECN/PFC.

Basic Qualification:

•Minimum of 5 years experience as subject matter expertise in IP Networking Routing Switching TCP IP, IPv4 v6, BGP, EVPN Vxlan.

•Minimum of 5 years experience with 100G 400G Ethernet. Experience configuring and troubleshooting routing and switching protocols BGP, IS IS, MPLS, RSVP TE, VRRP .

•Minimum of 5 years experience analyzing tactical situations, troubleshooting, root causing systems and tools, and problem solving via tasks or larger cross functional projects.

•Minimum of 5 years experience with Linux based systems to be able to debug and root cause server issues from application issue to network issue.

•Minimum of 5 years experience with python scripting ansible for scripting and automation

•High School Diploma or GED

Preferred Qualification:

•Network certifications, such as CCNA CCNP, JNCIA JNCIS, RHCSA or equivalent experience.

•Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

•Hands on experience with public cloud environments

•Ability to read code as source documentation

•DevOps CI CD mindset for automation and scale

•Release life cycle management experience with software development and CI CD.

•Experience working in a multi vendor environment with hands on experience with networking hardware.

•Reasonable expertise with scripting and automation languages like python, bash, thrift, protobuf, Golang.