Client: Microsoft

Contract: Can extend to 18 months

Location Requirements: Puget Sound area / Redmond, WA area

In beginning 2 days a week, may decrease with time

• Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain

o Experience in EDA (electronic design automation) industry

o SLURM scheduler experience

o Deploying Linux services on cloud IAAS infrastructure

Top 3 Hard Skills Required Years of Experience

o 1. Linux and administration (10 YOE)

o 2. Systems automation using shell, python or other similar languages (8 YOE)

o 3. Fundamental cloud knowledge (1 YOE) - this is needed so they can communicate with cloud-focused colleagues to get tasks done

• Motivators for this need: This role has been opened due to net new position.

Typical Day in the Role

• 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 Microsofts hardware is developed

o Short engagement

o Able to work closely with very experienced Microsoft engineering

Candidate Requirements

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

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

• Disqualifiers:If the candidate doesn't have recent experience with Linux

• Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on

o Quality of work and completeness of documentation received

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