Job Description

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WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING
At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences--from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you'll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges--striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career.
MTS SYSTEMS ENGINEER
THE ROLE:
We are looking for an adaptive, self-motivated expert systems engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor, you will have a strong technical background to contribute to all aspects of the software development process.
In this role, you will have full ownership of requirements delivery and drive projects to completion.
The System Engineer will be responsible for providing technical support to Engineering and Corporate organizations at AMD. This position will be required to support AMD's global cloud infrastructure in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Furthermore, this person will be collaborating globally on efforts for various IT activities related to the AMD Engineering system environment, in accordance with AMD Worldwide IT strategies and objectives.
THE PERSON:
You're a highly motivated team player with a strong development background, problem solving mentality, excellent communication skills, ability to prioritize tasks along with willingness to learn and adapt. Excellent teamwork skills and capable of working independently.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with internal customers in managing requests/changes/incidents for your areas of work.
• Work with global teams to provide support and complete IT projects.
• Install, configure, maintain, tune and troubleshoot Infrastructure/Hypervisor's such as VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter, KVM, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Citrix Xenserver.
• Provide assistance to the user community by answering questions, troubleshooting problems and providing informal one-on-one training when needed. Work on helpdesk tickets to meet service level objectives.
• Gain understanding of Global IT policies, processes and procedures in areas like asset management, client security and ensure a high degree of compliance. Be able to advise end users as required. Support the asset management processes to ensure all assets are registered appropriately.
• Designing, implementing, and executing virtualization migrations across various platforms (KVM, Hyper-V, VMware) to ensure a seamless transition with minimal disruption.
• Install, configure, maintain, tune and troubleshoot cloud native virtual machines in Azure, GCP, AWS and OCI.
• Extract performance metrics from VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, Xenserver. Holds meetings to go through daily operational metrics and abnormality within the infrastructure.
• Contribute to evolving standard operating procedures with a focus on problem avoidance.
• Install and configure software, upgrade and do patch maintenance. Ensure software license compliance. Provide hardware support (if appropriate) and troubleshooting to isolate problems. Liaise with Vendors to resolve problems.
• Execute on Governance/compliance and reporting; extract metrics from ServiceNow.
• Manage configurations of virtual machines and hypervisors.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
Systems Engineer general experience of Linux/Virtualization system administration with:

• 8+ year experience in designing and deploying software in Unix/Linux environment.
• Hands on experience in troubleshooting and deploying on various hypervisors such as VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Requiring strong Linux skills would include managing and maintaining Linux servers, scripting for automation, and ensuring system security. Proficiency in Linux command-line and shell scripting (like Bash or Python), and a strong understanding of networking concepts (like TCP/IP, DNS, and DHCP).
• Strong emphasis in programming skills for automation using Bash, Python, Ansible/Puppet, cloud_init
• Experienced in scaling out production Engineering compute builds, on-premises and cloud.
• Fully conversant with at least one or more Cloud Service Providers (Azure, GCP, AWS, OCI, etc.)
• Knowledge of compute HW such as Dell, HP, Cisco where you can provision HW with OS's such as ESXi, KVM, Xenserver, Nutanix, Windows, Linux: (Redhat, Ubuntu, CentOS) just to name a few.

Candidate with additional experience/skills will set you apart:

• Knowledge of deployment stacks using Terraform & cloud native tools, i.e., AWS CloudFormation, Azure resource manager, GCP cloud deployment manager.
• Experience with NAS (NFS & CIFS) storage like NetApp, Isilon & Nasuni
• Experience with Networking fundamentals like VPN, VLAN & Firewall access control
• Experience with Kubernetes, Rancher, or cloud-based Kubernetes services such as AKS, GKE or ECS
• Use of HPC Job scheduling technology such as IBM LSF or SLURM in an engineering workflow
• Tuning compute infrastructure to work more efficiently.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related field strongly preferred

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AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants' needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

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