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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