ESX Engineer

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Job Description:

Job Description

At VMware by Broadcom, we are building new possibilities for our customers by accelerating digital business transformation. We're modernizing data centers for greater agility and productivity, integrating public clouds for faster time to market, empowering digital workspaces to improve mobile experiences, and transforming cyber security.

The ESX Operating System is at the core of the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) virtualization technology.  It is an operating system and virtualization infrastructure built from scratch for the explicit purpose of running virtual machines.  ESX is the leading data center operating system in the world, and is used by most large corporations, due to its advanced capabilities, performance, and quality.

The ESX Core Platform Quality team is responsible for quality and reliability of ESX platform that is consumed by VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) software.  ESX Core Platform Quality established the foundation for VCF and is a key differentiator for VCF product to our customers. 

As a member of ESX Core Platform Quality team, you will:

• Learn the tools and processes necessary to become a successful ESX and VMKernel engineer and will participate in the design and development of novel validation techniques and algorithms for ESX operating system that manages virtual and real computer hardware.
• Work closely with a technical lead and your manager to grow in your new position and define goals to continue growing in your career.
• Implement advanced test strategy and coverage for ESX vmkernel and userspace features, with emphasis on scalability, performance, reliability, and support of new hardware technologies.
• Work with multiple engineering teams to architect, design, implement and deliver test coverage for new products based on the enterprise-class VCF virtualization platform.
• Take on opportunities to own parts of ESX Core Platform validation projects and with experience, take on ownership and leading larger parts of projects.

Our work will challenge your systems software development and problem-solving skills!

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of relevant industry experience OR MS degree in Computer Science or related field and 6+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Good understanding of kernel-level memory scheduling, memory management, and memory reclamation. Understanding of kernel-level CPU management is a plus.
• Broad understanding of OS virtualization solutions, particularly experience with hypervisors such as ESXi. Hyper-V, KVM, XEN.
• Strong understanding of kernel-level OS architectures such as Linux, Unix, Solaris, BSD-like systems, embedded real-time Operating Systems.
• Extensive test and automation development experience and expertise for low level OS components.
• Experience with Intel x86 CPU architecture and Intel based server architecture.  Similar experience and understanding of AMD architecture, a plus.
• Experience with hardware technologies.
• Excellent analytical, debugging and Python and C programming skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Additional Job Description:

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.  We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.

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