About the job
The Red Hat Ansible Engineering team is looking for a motivated Software Reliability Engineer to join us. In this role, you will work as part of a group of highly talented software engineers who are on a mission to grow the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offering into different cloud providers. You'll work closely with other Ansible Engineering and product management teams for building, maintaining, and managing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform managed services for our customers. You'll help us provide an enjoyable and engaging work environment. You'll get an opportunity to collaborate with dynamic and diverse agile teams, working around the world to create value for our customers and partners in an open source way. This is a great opportunity for you to improve your skills while working with a wide range of modern languages, frameworks, and technologies. As a Software Reliability Engineer, you will become a part of Red Hat's culture that makes us unique in the industry and you'll work with communities passionate about open source software. The Red Hat office in Durham, NC is the preferred work location, but well-qualified home-based engineering will also be considered. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do
- Develop and maintain software to automatically provision, upgrade, monitor, and heal a large Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform managed services in public clouds
- Support the operations of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform by responding to and troubleshooting system alerts
- Provide engineering support to Red Hat's global technical support team to resolve customer issues
- Participate in the development of new features and capabilities for the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offering on public clouds including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Participate in a global on-call rotation, including periodic weekend and holiday on-call duties; there is extra compensation for on-call
What you will bring
- Software development experience using a general purpose language; experience with Python or GoLang is a plus
- Linux administration experience; experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, or Fedora is a plus
- Basic knowledge of software development life cycle tools like GitHub and Jenkins
- Basic knowledge of monitoring systems
- Experience supporting a running service
- Passion for learning new technologies, building elegant software systems, troubleshooting complex technical issues, and automation
The following are considered a plus:
- Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
- Public speaking skills
- Experience with GitHub and operations support system (OSS) contribution
- Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile or scrum processes
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure Resource Manager Templates
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
- Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
- Retirement 401(k) with employer match
- Paid time off and holidays
- Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
- Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
- Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!
Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.