Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer
Company
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Team
The Hardware Reliability Engineering team is hyper-focused on the reliability and maintenance of the hardware powering the ServiceNow Enterprise Cloud. Our team works hard in a fast-paced and ever-growing environment, but we have fun doing it.
Role
This role has a direct impact on the reliability of the hardware powering our Cloud. In this role you’ll be responsible for delivering root cause analysis for hardware failures, seeking out ways to improve reliability of hardware components, and developing methods to test and deploy reliability updates.
What you get to do in this role:
- You will perform root cause analysis for hardware failures and track trends for these failures and create action items for follow up.
- Serve as an escalation point for the hardware break-fix team, assisting with rare or unusual hardware faults.
- Develop and maintain documentation required for the team including repair guides and process documentation.
- Troubleshoot firmware and configuration issues.
- Develop scripts to support overall team needs, including methods to deploy configuration changes and firmware updates.
- Coordinate with outside teams to develop methods for hardware monitoring and script development.
- Work directly with hardware vendors for troubleshooting and RCAs.
In order to be successful in this role, we need someone who has:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years supporting enterprise hardware at scale, including troubleshooting and diagnosis of rare/first occurrence hardware faults
- 5+ years working in Linux in large scale environments, including kernel crash dump analysis, use of other OS diagnostics for troubleshooting
- 5+ years working with enterprise grade server hardware, including troubleshooting and maintenance
- Working knowledge of trend analysis tools such as Splunk, etc.
- Strong Linux scripting experience, including development of automation tools, information gathering scripts, monitoring scripts (preferably BASH, Python)
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