Staff Systems Engineer – Compute Infrastructure

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As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Description

Join our Software Deployment Platform (SDP) team as a Staff Engineer - Compute Infrastructure. The Software Deployment Platform enables the delivery of on-premise software-based workflow applications providing the infrastructure to run processing workloads connect multiple tools manage data and streamline customer workflows.

SDP is a virtualization-based platform deployed on dedicated server and workstation hardware this role you will provide technical leadership for the underlying hardware infrastructure on which SDP runs. You will translate platform and product needs into hardware requirements define and evolve supported configurations and own the hardware lifecycle from introduction through replacement and end-of-life.

Working closely with the SDP software engineers you will analyze system behavior and identify opportunities to improve performance stability and scalability across the software and hardware stack. You will also own the hardware infrastructure used by the SDP team for development build and test activities helping ensure it remains reliable scalable and aligned with the teams needs.

You will collaborate with suppliers Procurement Operations Engineering Service and IT. This includes understanding supplier technology roadmaps planning for obsolescence improving consistency and cost efficiency and helping ensure both internal development infrastructure and customer-facing hardware configurations are supported throughout their lifecycle.

As a Staff Engineer you will guide complex infrastructure decisions and help shape the longer-term hardware strategy for SDP.

Key responsibilities

• Own the server workstation storage networking GPU and related hardware configurations on which SDP is deployed.
• Translate platform and product requirements into hardware specifications and manage hardware lifecycle activities including new introductions upgrades replacements and obsolescence.
• Support Non-Standard Request (NSR) activities by defining and validating tailored hardware configurations required to host SDP for specific customer or application needs.
• Analyse system performance stability and scalability together with SDP software engineers and suppliers and help resolve hardware- and infrastructure-related bottlenecks.
• Maintain and improve the development build and test hardware infrastructure used by the SDP scrum team including alignment with IT on networking hosting rack space power cooling and related infrastructure needs.
• Collaborate with suppliers and Procurement on technology roadmaps and developments in compute GPU storage and networking technologies identifying opportunities to improve sourcing consistency cost and platform capabilities.
• Partner with Operations Engineering and Service to help ensure customer-facing hardware solutions can be introduced integrated maintained and serviced effectively including creation of the required technical documentation and training for Service on new hardware solutions.

Requirements

• Academic degree in a relevant technical field with at least 8 years of relevant experience in systems engineering computer engineering infrastructure engineering product development or a related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of server and workstation hardware including compute GPU memory storage and networking technologies.
• Hands-on experience with IT and datacenter hardware including rack installation component replacement and upgrades cabling networking power and infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Experience translating software and system requirements into hardware architectures specifications and supported configurations.
• Experience with hardware lifecycle management supplier collaboration and technology roadmap planning.
• Understanding of system performance reliability capacity and scalability with experience troubleshooting hardware and infrastructure issues.
• Experience with virtualization platforms and the hardware/software interface including firmware BIOS/UEFI device drivers operating systems hardware compatibility and related platform technologies is preferred.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across software development Procurement Operations Engineering Service IT and external suppliers and to help guide technical decisions across teams.
• Strong analytical problem-solving communication and technical leadership skills.

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