Red Hat is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to develop, scale, and operate our OpenShift managed cloud services. OpenShift is Red Hat’s enterprise Kubernetes distribution. As an SRE you will contribute to running OpenShift at scale by enabling customer self-service, making our monitoring system more sustainable, and eliminating work through automation.
On the SRE team, you will have the opportunity to influence the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Red Hat managed cloud services, while using your skills in coding, operations, and large-scale distributed system design.
Red Hat relies on teamwork and openness for its success. We are a global team and strive to cultivate a transparent environment that makes room for different voices. We learn from our failures in a blameless environment to support the continuous improvement of the team. At Red Hat, your individual contributions have more visibility than most large companies, and visibility means career opportunities and growth.
What you will do
Manage, deploy, and operate cloud solutions at scale using the principles of Site Reliability Engineering
Participate in the design and development of new features to enable OpenShift 'as-a-service' across multiple public clouds
Design and write automation software to provision, upgrade, monitor, and heal a large global fleet of OpenShift clusters deployed across multiple public clouds
Identify single points of failure and other high-risk architecture issues; propose and implement more resilient resolutions
Interact with multiple teams within Red Hat and with the open source community to contribute to both the upstream and downstream projects to deliver functionality
Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling, monitoring and change management
Perform software updates, peer code reviews, testing, and CVE analysis; respond to security threats
Interact with automated monitoring and healing infrastructure to ensure healthy environments
Provide engineering support to Red Hat's global technical support team to resolve customer issues
Help and develop peers through knowledge sharing, mentoring and collaboration
Create and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for performing maintenance tasks, applying configuration changes and remediating problems in our environment
Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation
What you will bring
10+ years software engineering experience using object-oriented languages; golang is preferred
5+ years experience managing Linux-based systems in a public cloud such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
5+ years experience with enterprise systems monitoring; knowledge of Prometheus is preferred
5+ years experience with enterprise configuration management such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
3+ years experience delivering hosted cloud services
1+ year experience with Kubernetes
1+ year experience with containers on Linux
Superior communications skills and experience working directly with and presenting to customers
Ability to quickly learn new technologies and follow industry trends
Demonstrated ability to quickly and accurately troubleshoot systems issues
Solid understanding of standard TCP/IP networking and common protocols like DNS and HTTP
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterpriseopen source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.
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