Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Red Hat is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to develop, scale, and operate our Azure Red Hat Open Shift managed cloud services. Open Shift is Red Hat’s enterprise Kubernetes distribution. As an SRE you will contribute to running Open Shift 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.

• Contribute code to increase the scalability and reliability of the service
• Contribute software tests and participate in peer review to increase the quality of our codebase
• Help and develop peers’ capabilities through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and collaboration
• Participate in a regular on‑call schedule, including occasional paid weekends and holidays
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Resolve customer issues escalated from the Red Hat Global Support team
• Work within a small agile team to develop and improve SRE software, support your peers, plan and self‑improve
• Explore and experiment with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent practical experience will also be considered.
• Strong experience (5+ years) in at least one programming language (Golang, C, C++, Python, Java) and software life cycles
• Hands‑on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). Preferably Azure
• Direct experience with Kubernetes or Open Shift is a major plus. We like to see a demonstrated ability to debug, optimize code and automate routine tasks, 4+ years is desired.
• Experience with Docker based containers
• Strong collaboration and problem‑solving skills in distributed, team‑based environments.
• Experience troubleshooting as‑a‑service offerings (SaaS/PaaS) and working with complex distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems.
• Proven ability to automate repetitive tasks and debug performance issues.
• Have the ability to collaboratively troubleshoot and solve problems in a remote and distributed 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.

• Strong experience managing Linux servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, or Fedora hosted at a cloud provider such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Compute Engine (GCE)
• Strong experience with enterprise systems monitoring; knowledge of Prometheus is a plus
• Experience with enterprise configuration management software like Ansible by Red Hat, Puppet, or Chef
• Strong experience delivering a hosted service
• Demonstrated ability to quickly and accurately troubleshoot system issues
• Solid understanding of standard TCP/IP networking and common protocols like DNS and HTTP
• Solid communications skills and experience working directly with and presenting to customers

Don't quite match above but have strong developer skills? We'll still love to hear from you.

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