Benchmark Engineer job vacancy

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Description:

In this position, you will be a member of the Data Centre and AI team.
This team is responsible for enabling Sales and Marketing teams as well as customers with benchmarking proof points that highlight capabilities and benefits.
You will be performing Cloud instance benchmarking on leading Cloud Service Provider platforms.
Key responsibilities include evaluating performance using industry standard benchmarks, commercial and/or open-source applications, developing test automation test scripts and evaluating key technologies that drive performance.
We are looking for a candidate that is well versed in Linux, networking, who can set up machines/clusters/instances, compile kernels, load OS's, configure networks and storage, run benchmarks and debug associated problems as they come along.
In addition, programming experience to write micro benchmarks to stress server systems is a plus.

Your responsibilities will include:

Evaluating cloud instance and server performance using both internal and external benchmarks and applications
Responsible for adapting existing tests, benchmarks, and applications
Develop new tests or adapt workloads to test/stress architectural features for server processors

Minimum Qualifications:

BS in EE/CS/other engineering discipline
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in:
Compiling and running server benchmarks such as SPEC CPU, SPECjbb, WordPress PHP, Lin pack, Stream, LMBench, Hammer DB, HI Bench, MLPerf, etc.
Web Serving, Transcoding, LAMP, PHP, MySQL, Hadoop, Memcached, Java benchmarking experience.
Linux and Windows operating system expertise
Re-building kernels, compiling open-source code or projects, LAMP stack
C, C, Java, and/or scripting languages
Debugging and troubleshooting PC, workstation, or server solutions
Familiarity working with Cloud Instances (IaaS VMs)
Setting up server systems/clusters, compile kernels, load OS's, configure networks and storage.
Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
Prior experience with system configuration, testing and benchmarking ideal

Min of a BS degree is required; no exceptions