Hardware Test Automation and Engineering

Company	Accenture
Location	Menlo Park, CA, USA
Salary	$67.4 – $77.4
Type	Full-Time
Degrees
Experience Level	Senior

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of work experience as a subject matter with expertise in IP Networking/Routing and Switching (TCP/IP, IPv4/v6, BGP, EVPN/Vxlan) network certifications, such as CCNA/CCNP, JNCIA/JNCIS, RHCSA or equivalent experience
Minimum 3 years experience with 100G/400G Ethernet, configuring and troubleshooting routing and switching protocols (BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, RSVP-TE, VRRP)
Minimum 3 years experience analyzing tactical situations, troubleshooting, root causing systems and tools, and problem solving via tasks or larger cross functional projects
Minimum 3 years experience of release life cycle management experience with software development and CI/CD
Minimum 3 years experience working in a multi-vendor environment with hands-on experience with networking hardware
Minimum 3 years experience of reasonable expertise with scripting and automation languages like python, bash, thrift, protobuf, golang
Minimum 3 years experience with expertise with Linux based systems to be able to debug and root cause server issues from application issue to network issue
Minimum 3 years hands-on experience with public cloud environments
Minimum 3 years experience with python scripting / ansible for scripting and automation
Minimum 3 years experience in “read code” as source documentation
Minimum 3 years experience of DevOps CI/CD mindset for automation and scale
High School Diploma or GED

Responsibilities

Create software tools and services and or custom fit existing services to customer requirements. e.g – source of truth asset management system.
Perform network audits to evaluate: Capacity usage (BW, space, power, etc), unused devices.
Configure and deploy dashboards to visualize KPIs from audits.
Use best practices to deploy scripts for alerting, monitoring (telemetry gathering), and modifying configuration. Write and maintain documentation for scripts written and deployed.
Drive Software release management, Test and Validation including Release life cycle management.
Deploy and operate networks in public cloud environments.
Development of test automation tooling/framework that can be used to interface and configure lab testbeds.
Deploy agents to monitor networks by using internal tools and enriching existing data.
Software expertise to develop code and or script to communicate with APIs, orchestration of test execution and data extraction.
Working with test engineers to develop scripts, tools, capabilities that will accelerate the execution of various test campaigns.
Work with test engineers during test campaigns to troubleshoot/debug, identify issues/fixes.
Create documentation of lab testbeds, block diagrams, network diagrams, system configuration, runbooks/procedures, output reports.
Configure and deploy dashboards to visualize KPIs from test data pipelines.
Support PoC to deploy new systems, workflows or testing alternatives.
Upgrade existing client tools like PPP, Basset with new category of HW devices e.g – chassis, systems, compute/network blade, asic, NIC.
Write test automation scripts using keysight/ixia framework and integrate that with client internal tooling.
Upgrade existing software and deployment packages to meet custom customer requirements and deploy to a fleet of lab devices.
Design, deploy and manage backend networking for HPC cluster using L3 routing protocols, congestion control mechanism WRED-ECN/PFC is required.

Preferred Qualifications

Release life cycle management experience with software development and CI/CD
Experience working in a multi-vendor environment with hands-on experience with networking hardware
Reasonable expertise with scripting and automation languages like python, bash, thrift, protobuf, golang
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering