Performance & OS QA Engineer

Performance & OS QA Engineer

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

   

Compute at HPE helps organizations power their edge-to-cloud platform with proven, workload-optimized products, solutions, and services. Our leading supercomputing technologies enable customers to transform and modernize their IT infrastructure, solve complex problems and support new business opportunities with purpose-built infrastructure and software. Join us redefine what’s next for you.

What you'll do:

• Build and configure server hardware and firmware for performance & OS QA tests.
• Install and maintain operating systems (Linux and Windows) and required software stacks.
• Deploy, run, and validate industry standard benchmarks and microbenchmarks and custom performance tools (e.g., STREAM, LINPACK).
• Collect, analyze, and interpret performance data; isolate root causes across CPU, memory, I/O, OS, and application layers.
• Tune system, OS, SW stack, and benchmark parameters to achieve target performance and energy efficiency goals.
• Troubleshoot complex cross component issues, reproducing problems and tracking fixes through to resolution.
• Produce clear technical documentation and test reports describing configurations, methodologies, results, and recommended changes.
• Collaborate with firmware, hardware, software, and product teams to implement and validate performance improvements.

Ideal Candidate:

• Strong hands on experience with server hardware, operating systems, and industry benchmarks.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks using analytical and debugging tools.
• Comfortable working with both Linux and Windows environments and remote management tools.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, with the ability to follow complex interactions across HW, OS, and application layers.

• Good knowledge on any of the OS Certifications (HLK, VMware VIVA/workbench, rhcert, SUSE Yes Cert kit).
• Effective communicator and team player who can work across organizations to reproduce issues and drive solutions.
• Self motivated, detail oriented, and committed to producing repeatable, high quality performance results.

What you need to bring:

Education and Experience :

• B.E/B. Tech/M.E/M. Tech/MCA (Full time) with
• Minimum 2+ years’ experience

Knowledge and Skills:

Strong foundation in server architecture and subsystems (CPU, memory, storage/I/O) and core operating system concepts. Familiarity with energy-efficiency techniques, Java runtimes, virtualization platforms, and database technologies is a plus.
Proven ability to troubleshoot and administer both Linux and Windows server environments, including remote systems via management tools.
Demonstrated experience identifying, analyzing and resolving performance bottlenecks across an enterprise server portfolio.
Comfortable documenting technical findings and producing clear English whitepapers on system configurations, tuning techniques and measurement results.

Must Have :

• Solid knowledge of server subsystems (CPU, memory, storage/I/O) and operating system internals.
• Hands on experience troubleshooting and administering Linux and Windows servers.
• Practical experience identifying and analyzing server performance bottlenecks.
• Proficiency with performance and debugging tools (profilers, OS counters, tracing and related utilities).
• Experience working with remote servers and remote management tools.

Desired skill set :

• Experience with industry-standard benchmarks (SPEC), specifically SPEC CPU 2017, SPECjbb 2015 and/or SPECpower_ssj 2008.
• Familiarity with performance microbenchmarks and tools (e.g., STREAM, LINPACK) and workload characterization.
• Background in capacity planning, benchmark development, or power/performance trade-off analysis.
• Eagerness to learn new technologies and apply them to improve performance and energy efficiency.

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, Solutions Design, Testing & Automation, User Experience (UX)

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_01

    

    

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