Job Title
Installation Engineer
Role overview
We are actively seeking an Installation Engineer to help drive our installation services division and continued expansion in the UK, US, Germany and India. This is an all-encompassing role, which will provide the successful candidate with a variety of workloads across all segments of the installation and engineering space.
You will deliver the full portfolio of Boston hardware and will contribute towards all aspects of business generation within the region, addressing both new and existing customer opportunities. You will be responsible for installing new and upgraded hardware to customer sites, onsite support activities and customising PoC systems for customer needs.
Responsibilities
- Build, customise and deploy turnkey cluster solutions for customers
- Liaise with customers to finalise cluster deployment and customisation
- Support new and existing customers
- Support the pre-sales function and work alongside our partners and the sales team
- Liaise and help the production department during cluster build/testing
- Liaise with customers to deploy new or upgraded hardware
- Actively engage in hardware qualification for HPC
- Actively engage in tender processes
- Perform benchmarking for new hardware (i.e.: CPU, memory, network)
- Physical racking and cabling of installations
- Support our customer services team with onsite visits
- Travel will be required as part of the role
Key Knowledge & Skills required
- Experience in enterprise server hardware
- HPC cluster experience (setup or use)
- Understanding of GPU and accelerator technologies
- Experience in alternative low power architectures such as ARM
- Shell scripting – Bash, Perl or Python or any combination
- Experience in managing servers remotely (e.g. via IPMI)
- Experience of Linux Cluster Management (e.g. xCAT or BCM)
- Experience of managing high volumes of servers
- Experience with network-based provisioning tool such as Ansible, Puppet, Cobbler, Kickstart etc.
- Experience with physical racking of hardware
- Experience with cable routing and bundling in computer racks and rack dressing
- Experience with cable labelling standards and equipment
Who We Are
Boston Limited has been providing cutting edge technology since 1992 using Supermicro® building blocks. Our high performance, mission-critical server and storage solutions can be tailored for each specific client, helping to create your ideal solution. From the initial specification, solution design and even full custom branding – we can help you solve your toughest business challenges simply and effectively.
Since its founding in London, UK, Boston has expanded operations globally. Following on from the successful launch of Boston IT Solutions India in 2009, Boston launched Boston Server & Storage Solutions GmbH in Germany a year later, with offices also opening on the West and East coast, USA in 2012.
Boston's high performance, mission-critical server and storage solutions can be tailored for each specific client. We help you create your ideal solution - customising the specification, design and even full custom branding - helping you solve your toughest business challenges simply and effectively.
What it means to work for us
We endeavour to be the best in our field and to achieve this we look for a range of talented individuals, ensuring that they feel valued throughout their employment with us – because we want our team members to get up in the morning excited to come to work – where work doesn’t feel like work! Through great workplace practices and ensuring our employees are well-supported and encouraged to continuously learn and grow.
As an employee of Boston, you can look forward to working in a dynamic environment where no two days are the same. The workforce is lively and enjoy benefits such as;
· Pension scheme
· Healthcare Insurance
· Life insurance
· Regular Companywide team building activities and events
· Perkbox
· Weekly free fruit deliveries
· Cycle Scheme
· Subsidised gym memberships
· Employee of the Month / Year
· Flexible working scheme
· 21 days holiday excluding bank holidays which can go up to 30 by earning more over time
· Amongst a wide range of other initiatives
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Cycle to work scheme
- Gym membership
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
Work Location: In person
