Job summary
Red Hat Ecosystem Engineering is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Telco Solutions and Enablement group. In this role you will be responsible for providing technical contributions to strategic 5G and next generation Telco Service Provider offerings and solutions. You will be a member of a geographically distributed team which engages early and works closely with partners in Red Hat's partner ecosystem, with peer groups in Ecosystem Engineering, with Red Hat product and sales teams, in open source communities and standards bodies.
Project activities include building proof of concepts using Red Hat platforms, working with partners to onboard workloads, designing repeatable solutions, integrating solutions into CI/CD pipelines, verifying solutions for telco domains such as RAN, providing technical guidance for Certification programs.
To be successful in this role you will need to thrive on designing and delivering positive outcomes to technically challenging problems while embracing and amplifying Red Hat's core values of freedom, courage, commitment and accountability.
Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.
Primary job responsibilities

• Collaborate within and across Red Hat teams to realize Telco Service Provider features and solutions.
• Build proof of concepts using Red Hat platforms and partner workloads.
• Design, develop or test software in support of strategic partner next-generation offerings.
• Advocate your work and Red Hat's position in open source communities.
• Provide technical leadership within Telco Solutions and Enablement.
• Mentor junior engineers within your team and across the group.
• Contribute to collective success through regular knowledge sharing within the company.
• Serve as a voice of Red Hat for partnered development activities.

Required skills

• Industry experience of enterprise software development.
• Proficiency in programming (including Go or Python) or test automation development.
• Flexibility to work with a geographically distributed remote working team.
• Contributing to open source communities.
• Proficiency in Linux operation and administration.
• Experience with Linux system programming.
• Good interpersonal and verbal skills; good written communication skills.
• Experience with working in an end-to-end Telecommunications lab environment and improving it.

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat CoreOS, other Red Hat products and/or industry cloud or virtualization technologies.
• Knowledge of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Container development, virtualization, cloud computing or cloud-native development, and automation.
• Development of Operators for OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• Distributed system design and development.
• Networking software development.
• Experience in software testing or CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience in production Telco or Service Provider environments, either as a network operator or vendor.

Relevant domain-specific knowledge and experience includes:

• Involvement in standards bodies
• NFV (Network Functions Virtualization)
• SDN (Software Defined Networking)
• OSS/BSS (Operational Support System / Business Support System)
• Cloud-native applications and architectures
• 5G Core
• 5G RAN

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