# Hardware Systems Engineer

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_2c93b607-428

## Description

## About the Role

We need to make thoughtful infrastructure choices affecting a significant portion of the Internet. Hardware we work with includes servers and components, as well as PDUs and network hardware.

As a Hardware Systems Engineer, you will work with colleagues on the Hardware Engineering, Product teams, and Hardware Sourcing teams to troubleshoot and maintain Cloudflare's worldwide fleet of storage and compute servers.

### Responsibilities

- Work with software teams to validate bug fixes and assess performance of new firmware revisions

- Validate and deploy firmware updates to the fleet, monitoring the progress of the rollout for compliance and reliability

- Work with server and component vendors to obtain, debug, and maintain the latest updates

- Work with our Site Reliability Engineering teams to triage hardware problem reports

- Support our Data Centre Engineering teams in resolving hardware issues

- Develop and maintain automation tools to update firmware on servers and components in Cloudflare's fleet

- Communicate your results and updates through blog posts, internal talks, and tickets

### Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science

- 3-5 years of experience

- Knowledge of bash and python and basic Linux task automation

- Knowledge of x86 server hardware including motherboards, CPUs, memory, storage and firmware updates

- Knowledge of configuration management principals, in particular Salt

- Knowledge of Redfish, IPMI and server remote management protocols

- Knowledge of running production mission critical systems

### Nice to Have

- Familiarity with server hardware architecture

- Knowledge of debugging server hardware faults and the ability to engage with our sourcing team and vendors to improve quality

- Experience of managing large fleets comprising of thousands of servers

- Experience of observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and the ability to observe trends over time

- Experience with software development tools and processes such as git, Bitbucket and TeamCity and Jira

## Skills

### Required
- bash
- python
- Linux task automation
- x86 server hardware
- configuration management
- Salt
- Redfish
- IPMI
- server remote management protocols

### Nice to have
- server hardware architecture
- debugging server hardware faults
- managing large fleets
- observability and monitoring tools
- software development tools and processes

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