[Remote] System Administrator and Test Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Prowess Consulting is a consulting firm that specializes in helping enterprises in the technology industry. They are seeking an enthusiastic junior System Administrator/Test Engineer to support benchmarking and testing efforts, requiring skills in various technologies including storage, compute, and networking.
Responsibilities
- Researching, testing, development and writing in support of benchmarking, and testing
- Running publicly available hardware benchmarks and tracking results
- Running provided Python/PowerShell/Bash/Shell scripts or interactive steps to stress test server infrastructure hardware
Skills
- Associate degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
- 2+ years or working knowledge with scripting languages such as Python and Batch/Shell scripts
- Ability to take clear notes and write concise technical documentation
- Ability to analyze/interpret test results and provide recommendations to improve testing
- Must be able to work Pacific Time Zone
- 2+ years' experience in a Windows environment
- 2+ years' experience with Linux Administration
- 1+ year experience in configuring enterprise storage
- 1+ year consumer hardware benchmarking and testing
- 2+ years with building sandbox and lab environments
- Ability to conduct research to learn and understand new technologies
- Additional experience in the following areas: Kubernetes
- AI/ML workloads
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- Virtualization such as Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV
- Nginx
- Redis
Benefits
- U.S. based employees, working 30 hours per week or more have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, basic life insurance, a 401K plan with matching, well-being benefits, education benefits, among others.
- U.S. based full-time employees receive 11 paid holidays, and accrue paid time off
- Health insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Life and disability insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan investing
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