Specialist Performance QA Engineer

Specialist Performance 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.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

High Performance Computing, AI and Labs is a critical element of HPE. We are focused on delivering innovative solutions that accelerate our customers’ digital transformation, enabling them to tackle their complex, and data-intensive workloads. Combining deep expertise and the development of the world’s most cutting-edge, high-performance supercomputers, is defining the next era of computing delivering valuable insight & innovation. Join us and redefine what’s next for you.

About the Role:

We are seeking a hands-on Specialist Engineer to execute end-to-end performance evaluation of Nonstop Compute and Software solution having x86 processors, memory, networking, and storage subsystem components. You will work with a team of other engineers including experts, will own benchmarking strategy, deep-dive profiling, performance tuning, and capacity characterization on Intel x86 platforms, high-speed interconnects (e.g., InfiniBand/RDMA), and our proprietary operating system and network stack (SSH, NFS, SMB/Samba, DNS, FTP/SFTP, NTP, IPsec). This role is pivotal for customers in payment gateways, banking, stock exchanges, and telecom switching - domains that demand low latency, high throughput, and high availability.

What you'll do:

• Execute, define and drive the performance activities: metrics, KPIs, SLOs, benchmarks, acceptance criteria, and regression gates for releases.
• Translate product performance and workload requirements (e.g., OLTP, market data, telecom signalling, replication/backup) into repeatable performance test plans.
• Design and execute micro-, component-, and system-level benchmarks (SPEC CPU/CPU2017, SPECjbb, TPC-like models, iPerf/netperf, custom harnesses) across bare metal, virtualized (KVM, VMware, QEMU).
• Help build representative synthetic and production-like workload models (latency percentiles, tail behavior, burstiness, diurnal patterns).
• Use tools such as measure, processh, xprofile, Wireshark (run-time performance data collection), LoadRunner analysis tools and perform full-stack profiling (CPU, memory, caches, NUMA locality, I/O paths, interrupts, network stack, kernel scheduling).
• Analyze contention (locks, queues), Interrupt distribution, socket backlogs, TCP/IP/RDMA tuning, storage queues, and filesystem behavior to produce clear root-cause analyses with system software development teams
• Build automated, reproducible tools / pipelines for benchmark execution, data collection, statistical analysis (confidence intervals, variance), and visualization (Prometheus/Grafana, Python/NumPy/Pandas/Matplotlib).
• Partner with hardware, firmware, OS, storage, and networking teams to co-own performance outcomes, participate in design and code reviews; advocate for performance-centric architecture and testability.

What you need to bring:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s in computer science, Electrical / Electronic / IT Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Typically, 5–10 years in system performance engineering or low-level systems development for enterprise-grade platforms.

Required Knowledge & Skills

• Strong fundamentals in computer architecture: CPU pipelines, caches, memory hierarchies, prefetching, branch prediction
• Good understanding of Linux (and/or proprietary OS) internals: scheduling, memory management, I/O stacks, networking, filesystem/storage layers.
• Sound understanding of network stack and protocols, socket programming concepts, and network performance tooling (tcpdump, Wireshark, ss, ethtool).
• Good understanding of RDMA/InfiniBand (verbs, queue pairs, completion queues), SR-IOV, PVRDMA, and low-latency tuning.
• Performance engineering for NVMe, RAID, HBAs, storage controllers and related tools.
• Experience with system profilers, tracing, and flame graph techniques; skilled in experimental design and statistical rigor.
• Working knowledge of C/C++ for systems-level benchmarks compilations and fixes; strong Python and shell scripting for automation, parsing, and visualization.
• Practical experience with KVM, QEMU, VMware; knowledge of virtio, vhost, SR-IOV.
• Strong analytical thinking, structured problem solving, and the ability to communicate complex findings to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with SPEC, TPC-style, or OpenSource benchmarks like sysbench, ioperf
• Performance work on HPE ProLiant or similar server platforms

Additional Skills:

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)

What We Can Offer You:

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_03

    

    

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