Hardware Engineer - Storage, Compute and Networking Infrastructure

About the role

DDN is looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer to support the deployment, validation and operation of large-scale solutions. The role covers system bring-up, hardware and firmware validation, and operational reliability across storage, compute and networking infrastructure. You will work closely with senior engineers so that systems are correctly configured, stable and performant, from BIOS settings and firmware versions to OS behaviour and device health.

Key responsibilities

• Perform system bring-up and validation, including BIOS configuration, firmware updates and OS-level checks.
• Configure and verify platform settings (BIOS, BMC, OS) to meet performance, reliability and consistency standards.
• Execute and validate firmware updates across components such as NVMe drives, NICs and system firmware.
• Troubleshoot device initialization and visibility, firmware mismatch or upgrade failures, and misconfigurations affecting performance or stability.
• Define and test procedures for drive swaps and rebuilds, data integrity and system health checks, and for minimizing impact to running systems.
• Monitor and validate storage device health, including basic performance characteristics and failure indicators.
• Work with Linux systems to verify configuration, collect diagnostics and assist in debugging.
• Escalate and help triage complex cross-layer issues with senior engineers, and contribute to documentation and standardization of bring-up, validation and operational procedures.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure or platform-focused engineering roles.
• Comfortable working directly with hardware and firmware, including BIOS, BMC and device-level tools.
• Familiarity with storage and networking fundamentals (NVMe, NICs, basic I/O concepts).
• Experience performing and supporting firmware updates, with awareness of risk and failure scenarios.
• Strong attention to detail, curiosity about why systems behave the way they do, and willingness to grow into deeper debugging responsibilities.

Required skills

• Solid understanding of Linux systems administration and troubleshooting.
• Good scripting skills; familiarity with Go is a plus.