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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.

About Business UnitIBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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