Principal Site Reliability Engineer

5 months ago

Waterford, Ireland Red Hat Limited Full time

The Red Hat (SRE) team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join us. In this role, you will develop, scale, and operate our. 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 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.

What will you 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 will you bring

5+ years of software engineering experience using object-oriented languages; Golang is preferred

Extensive experience managing Linux-based systems in a public cloud such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

Proficient experience with enterprise systems monitoring; knowledge of Prometheus is preferred

Extensive experience with enterprise configuration management such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef

Proficient experience delivering hosted cloud services

1+ year experience with container-related technologies like Docker or Kubernetes

Experience delivering hosted cloud services

Experience with containers on Linux

Solid understanding of standard TCP/IP networking and common protocols like DNS and HTTP

Good verbal and written communication skills in English

About Red Hat
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