About the Job
We’re seeking an Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with passion for maintaining highly reliable cloud-based services. In this role, you will support Red Hat’s software manufacturing services on our hybrid cloud infrastructure. You will partner with development, quality engineering and release engineering colleagues to support the health and well-being of the infrastructure hosting Software Production services. Creating/Maintaining service monitoring, improving automation, upholding security best practices and responding to various service situations will be your daily work. You will participate in communities of practice to coordinate and influence the design of our hybrid cloud platform. You will be co-responsible for defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the services the team supports, and executing remediation plans if the SLOs are not met.
In this role, you will be expected to respond in a timely manner during a service outage and participate in learning events to identify improvements that will make our services more resilient. Join us and our passion in helping Red Hat to produce world-class open source software.
What you’ll do
Be part of a globally distributed team, offering 24x7 support through a service model that leverages different time zones to extend coverage with regular on-call rotations.
Resolve service incidents by use of existing operating procedures, investigate outage causes and coordinate incident resolution across various service teams
Act as a leader and mentor to your less experienced colleagues, bring and drive continuous improvement ideas and help the team to benefit from technology evolution, such as AI tools utilization
Collaborate on incident retrospective reviews and corrective items implementation
Configure and maintain service infrastructure
Proactively identify and eliminate toil by automating manual, repetitive, and error-prone processes
Coordinate your actions with other Red Hat teams such as IT Platforms, Infrastructure, Storage and Network and ensure our services cloud deployment meets quality expectations
Implement monitoring, alerting and escalation plans in the event of an infrastructure outage or performance problem
Work with service owners to co-define and implement SLIs and SLOs for the services you’ll support, ensure those are met and execute remediation plans if they are not
What you’ll bring
Expert knowledge of OpenShift administration and application development
Linux administration expertise
Advanced knowledge of automation services: ArgoCD, Ansible or Terraform
Advanced knowledge of CI/CD platforms: Tekton and Pipelines as a code (optionally GitHub Actions or Jenkins)
Advanced knowledge and experience with monitoring platforms and technologies
General knowledge of AWS technologies
Ability to understand graphically represented concepts and architectures in documentation
Experience with creation of Standard Operating Procedures
Knowledge of open source monitoring technologies (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, as you'll be working in a globally distributed team
The following skills will be considered a plus:
Previous experience with SRE model
Experience with software development using Python or GoLang
Experience with automation design and implementation
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About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.
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