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Description
Red Hat is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to develop, scale, and operate our OpenShift managed cloud services. OpenShift is Red Hats 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
The day-to-day responsibilities of an SRE involve working with live systems and coding automation. As an SRE you will be expected to:
Contribute code to increase the scalability and reliability of the serviceContribute software tests and participate in peer review to increase the quality of our codebaseHelp and develop peers capabilities through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and collaborationParticipate in a regular on-call schedule, including occasional paid weekends and holidaysPractice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortemsResolve customer issues escalated from the Red Hat Global Support teamWork within a small agile team to develop and improve SRE software, support your peers, plan and self-improve
What you will bring
A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving software or systems engineering is required. However, hands-on experience that demonstrates your ability and interest in Site Reliability Engineering are valuable to us, and may be considered in lieu of degree requirements. You must have some experience programming in at least one of these languagesPython, Golang, Java, C, C++ or another object-oriented language. You must have experience working with public clouds such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. You must also have the ability to collaboratively troubleshoot and solve problems in a team setting.As an SRE you will be most successful if you have some experience troubleshooting an as-a-service offering (SaaS, PaaS, etc.) and some experience working with complex distributed systems. Direct experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift is a plus. We like to see a demonstrated ability to debug, optimize code and automate routine tasks. We are Red Hat, so you need a basic understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems.Desired skills
5+ years of experience managing Linux servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, or Fedora hosted at a cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Engine (GCE), or Microsoft Azure3+ years of experience with enterprise systems monitoring; knowledge of Prometheus is a plus3+ years of experience with enterprise configuration management software like Ansible by Red Hat, Puppet, or Chef2+ years of experience programming with at least one object-oriented language; Golang, Java, or Python are preferred2+ years of experience delivering a hosted serviceDemonstrated ability to quickly and accurately troubleshoot system issuesSolid understanding of standard TCP/IP networking and common protocols like DNS and HTTPSolid communications skills and experience working directly with and presenting to customers1+ year(s) of experience with Kubernetes is a plus1+ year(s) of experience with docker-based containers is a plus
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