System Administrator and Test Engineer

Prowess Consulting is a consulting firm that specializes in helping the largest enterprises in the technology industry. They are looking for an enthusiastic junior System Administrator/System/Test Engineer to join their team, responsible for researching, testing, and benchmarking server infrastructure hardware.

Responsibilities:

• Researching, testing, development and writing in support of benchmarking, and testing
• Running publicly available hardware benchmarks and tracking results
• Running provided Python/PowerShell/Bash/Shell scripts or interactive steps to stress test server infrastructure hardware

Requirements:

• Associate degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
• 2+ years' experience or working knowledge administrating AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle cloud
• 2+ years or working knowledge with scripting languages such as Python and Batch/Shell scripts
• Ability to take clear notes and write concise technical documentation
• Ability to analyze/interpret test results and provide recommendations to improve testing
• Must be able to work Pacific Time Zone
• 2+ years' experience in a Windows environment
• 2+ years' experience with Linux Administration
• 1+ year experience in configuring enterprise storage
• 1+ year consumer hardware benchmarking and testing
• 2+ years with building sandbox and lab environments
• Ability to conduct research to learn and understand new technologies
• Additional experience in the following areas:
• Kubernetes
• AI/ML workloads
• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL
• Virtualization such as Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV
• Nginx
• Redis