Senior Site Reliability Engineer - OpenShift Dedicated
The Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our global team. In this role, you will work on Red Hat OpenShift, which is enterprise Kubernetes, as part of a team that develops and operates Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated, a public cloud service based on Red Hat OpenShift for large enterprise customers. You’ll play a key role in designing solutions that make the service scalable, resilient, and secure while balancing development and operations work.
Responsibilities
* Design and write automation software to provision, upgrade, monitor, and heal a large global fleet of Red Hat OpenShift clusters deployed across multiple public clouds.
* Identify single points of failure and other high‑risk architecture issues; propose and implement more resilient resolutions.
* Participate in release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging, and production environments and integrating with CI/CD tooling and monitoring.
* 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.
* Create and maintain standard operating procedures for performing maintenance tasks, applying configuration changes, and remediating problems.
* Participate in a global on‑call rotation, including periodic weekend and holiday on‑call duties.
Qualifications
* 3+ years of software engineering experience using object‑oriented languages; Golang and Python are preferred.
* Experience managing Linux‑based systems in a public cloud such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
* Commercial experience with enterprise system monitoring; knowledge of Prometheus is a plus.
* Experience with container technology, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and configuration management tools (Red Hat Ansible Automation, Puppet, or Chef) is a big plus.
* Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot systems quickly and accurately.
* Solid written and verbal communication skills in English.
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, delivering high‑performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Employees work flexibly across office, flex, and fully remote environments, encouraging diverse ideas and creative problem‑solving.
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