IBM Hardware Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

150318650

Your Role and Responsibilities

Candidate is responsible for Qualification of Servers and System Qualification and support of Field Deploymentsd

• Booting Servers to test for existence and functionality of all components
• Qualification of Server level Secure Boot and Memory Boot
• Confirming all Secure Measures and encryption measures are compliant
• Testing proprietary Baseboard Memory Control / OpenBMC on all server configurations
• Automation of tests using Redfish for new products and regression on existing products
• Qualification of each new vendor version of BMC, BIOS, and firmware code
• Hardware upgrades and network connections

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Required Skills – Candidate should be detail oriented with excellent documentation and communication skills and very comfortable/experienced in the following Lab Testing areas:

• Ability to program using Linux and Python
• Good understanding/familiarity of Python coding/Redfish/OpenBMC
• Comfortable with Server level BMC, BIOS, and firmware
• Automation of BMC and BIOS firmware updates to the field
• Familiarity with server bring-up including firmware/bios updates, bios settings, network boosting, and basic networking is very beneficial
• Clear Documentation and Communication of Results
• Strong understanding of server hardware and networking design

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Preferred Skills: The preferred skills are a plus and candidates are not expected to possess all of these. On The Job training will be provided for new skills necessary

• Proficient at Qualification/Verification of server & component level Hardware & Firmware Functions, and Data Analysis
• Familiarity with server hardware design including processors, memory, storage drives, I/O adapters, BIOS, and BMC
• Good understanding of server hardware and components (CPUs, DIMMs, Drives, NIC Cards, etc.)
• Safety certified to work around high voltages (480VAC and 208VAC)
• Hands on working experience in an engineering lab environment.
• Familiar with typical datacenter power, cooling infrastructure, and datacenter energy efficiency