Job title: Linux Engineer

Location: Redmond, WA-In beginning 2 days a week onsite, may decrease with time

Type: Contract

Contract length: (up to) 18 months

Interview process: 1 virtual IV- 2 hour panel IV

Citizenship: USC/GC on w2 (no c2c or c2h for w2 purposes)

Screenings: Background once hired

Pay: starts at $65 /hour- we have flexibility with rate (based on expereince, tenure, etc)

Start date: ASAP-2 weeks or less from offer

: weekly pay, optional benefits, 15 days of pto a year (accrues 1.5 a week/can use AFTER 90 days of work), federal holidays off (unpaid on contract)

Candidate Requirements

• Years of Experience Required: 10 overall years of experience in the field.

• Degrees or certifications required:

o Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required

o Linux and administration (10 years of expereince)

o Systems automation using shell, python or other similar languages (8 years of expereince)

o Fundamental cloud knowledge (1 years of expereince) - this is needed so they can communicate with cloud-focused colleagues to get tasks done

• Disqualifiers:

o If the candidate doesn't have recent experience with Linux

• Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain the below:

o Experience in EDA (electronic design automation) industry

o SLURM scheduler experience

o Deploying Linux services on cloud IAAS infrastructure

• Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on

o Quality of work and completeness of documentation received

• Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is providing engineering focused IT services to Microsoft's azure developers - specifically for developers of Chips.

• Key projects: They have a pair of services developed in Azure. Azure services all connected to work together with some infrastructure as a service to further develop the flow. These were developed with a team that no longer exists. This individual will work together with another individual to reverse-engineer these services to document and bring them to a portable state and be able to provide training on how they work to long-term support teams.

• Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of

o 12.5% meetings, 87.5% heads down.

Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition

• What makes this role interesting? - This role provides the opportunity to

o Have a lot of autonomy

o Able to make a discreet difference on how the clients hardware is developed

o Short engagement

o Able to work closely with very experienced Microsoft engineering

Hard Skills Assessments

• Expected Dates that Hard Skills Assessments will be scheduled: ASAP.

• Hard Skills Assessment Process: The assessment process will include standard panel interview (2-hour timeslot with a panel).

• Required Candidate Preparation: Candidates should have their resume prepared prior to the assessment.

Summary:

The main function of a Service Engineer is to design, develop, implement, test, and maintain business and computer applications software or specialized utility programs including mainframe and client/server applications, and major enhancement of existing systems

Job Responsibilities:

• Fine-tune and improve a variety of sophisticated software implementation projects

• Gather and analyze system requirements, document specifications, and develop software solutions to meet client needs and data

• Analyze and review enhancement requests and specifications

• Implement system software and customize to client requirements

• Prepare the detailed software specifications and test plans

• Code new programs to clients specifications and create test data for testing

• Modify existing programs to new standards and conduct unit testing of developed programs

• Create migration packages for system testing, user testing, and implementation

• Provide quality assurance reviews

• Perform post-implementation validation of software and resolve any bugs found during testing

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required

• 10 years experience required

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design

• large systems software design and development experience

• Experience performing in-depth troubleshooting and unit testing with both new and legacy production systems

• experience in programming and experience with problem diagnosis and resolution