Description:
Akkodis is seeking an Engineering Technician role is a Contact with a client in Santa Clara, CA (Onsite), We’re ideally looking for an applicant with 4+ years of equivalent experience in a Lab or Datacenter environment. Visio and CAD experience for Lab R&D projects and Rack Management. Experience with handling PDUs and Power in Labs.
Summary
- We're looking for a motivated Engineering Technician (Contract) for support our Colossus quality assurance labs. In this role, you will be faced the challenge of providing a test-bed for our developers to test software on various hardware before releasing them.
- Additionally, collaborate with Infrastructure Engineers, installing and maintaining Windows/Linux platforms and using creativity while finding solutions.
- We expect things to break in this lab, as the software is mostly low-level device drivers, and the bugs in them do break boards and GPUs.
- We seek to catch problems early in our labs rather than in user devices.
- Our labs run more than 100,000 tests per day and is part of a DevOps pipeline that needs constant supervision, tracking, monitoring and break-fix.
What you'll be doing:
- Handling Labs and Datacenters using DCIM Tools, spreadsheets and task tracking tools.
- Your responsibilities will also include defining standards in labs to keep them safe, clean and organized.
- Deploy test boards that run automated tests from a Software Developers and triage and root cause board issues which are not due to hardware or software issues but, that potentially have test setup issues.
- Remove and redeploy boards that need software and/or hardware upgrades from board engineers in a regular cadence.
- Work closely and pro-actively with other engineering teams such as system architects, chip and board designers, software/firmware engineers, HW/SW QA teams and Applications engineering teams to drive design, development, debug and release of next generations products.
- Take active part in procurement decisions for Lab by choosing from various options available, getting test copies and doing proof of concepts and then providing recommendations.
- Collect data for critical metrics for the lab and track progress.
What we need to see:
- Associates or Bachelors Degree in a Tech related Major or 4+ years of equivalent experience in a Lab or Datacenter environment.
- Ability to perform well at work without requiring constant manager supervision.
- Ability to do deploy and cable servers and test equipment.
- Basic user level understanding of Unix/Windows, and Networking with Enterprise Switches and Routers.
- Skills to work with teammates of various abilities and experiences.
- Ability to find tasks where you need help from sys-admins and communicate those, coordinate with them to integrate those solutions
- Perseveration to debug a hard problem and out of box thinking to seek those.
- To be successful in this position, you should have a love of working with close-knit, multi-disciplinary teams, and enjoy hands-on work with state of the art platforms.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
- Visio and CAD experience for Lab R&D projects and Rack Management.
- Lab/Datacenter Procurement Experience.
- Experience with handling PDUs and Power in Labs.
- System administrator level experience on Unix/windows and knowledge of scripting to automate workflows (bash/python).
- Basic knowledge of Git/Perforce to check-out, edit and check-in scripts.
- Ability to write SQL queries to get data from MySQL DBs.