Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability

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 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

What you will bring
• 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 Azure
• 3+ years of experience with enterprise systems monitoring; knowledge of Prometheus is a plus
• 3+ years of experience with enterprise configuration management software like Ansible by Red Hat, Puppet, or Chef
• 2+ years of experience programming with at least one object-oriented language; Golang, Java, or Python are preferred
• 2+ years of 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
• 1+ year(s) of experience with Kubernetes is a plus
• 1+ year(s) of experience with docker-based containers is a plus