Platform Engineer

Platform on-boarding (Development)

Onboarding team is essentially acting as a low-level systems integration and deployment team, ensuring that the necessary kernel, drivers, and software are correctly packaged and deployed onto the target hardware.

Kernel, Driver, and ISO Onboarding Responsibilities include:

- Kernel Integration and Configuration

- Assisting with kernel parameter tuning for specific hardware or software requirements.

- Troubleshooting kernel-related issues

- Ensuring kernel compatibility with target hardware.

- Validating with performance related runs like cyclic test, hwlat tests.

Driver Firmware Integration:

- Assisting with driver testing and debugging with specific tests

- Ensuring driver compatibility with the target kernel and hardware.

- Helping to integrate in-tree and out-of-tree drivers.

ISO Image Creation and Customization:

- Developing and maintaining scripts for creating customized ISO images.

- Integrating kernel and drivers into the ISO image.

- Testing ISO images on target hardware.

- Packaging software into the ISO.

- Managing dependencies and libraries.

Hardware Compatibility Testing:

- Developing test plans for hardware compatibility.

- Conducting tests on various hardware platforms.

- Identifying and resolving hardware compatibility issues.

Security Hardening:

- Ensuring compliance with security standards

- Performing security audits of ISO images.

Bootloader Configuration:

- configuration of bootloaders such as GRUB or U-Boot.

- Troubleshooting boot issues.

- Ensuring proper boot parameters are set within the ISO.

- Setting up and troubleshooting root file system within the ISO.

- Configuring filesystems for optimal performance.

User/Service/Application Provisioning:

- Setting up initial access, permissions, and accounts.

- Deploying necessary infrastructure components (e.g., namespaces, storage, network configurations).

- Troubleshooting issues related to configuration, or deployment

- Multi node, multi pod dimensioning deployment validation

Validating Feature with Cloud releases

- Validating new release features with specific test cases.

Target Platforms

SMC, Dell -HW

Intel- ICX, Saphire RPD, GNR-D Processor onboarding

Onboarding RT/NRT applications on different cloud platforms

Skills

C/C++/Python Programming Language, Understanding K8S concepts to on-board workloads