The
Red Hat Ansible Engineering
team (
https://www.ansible.com/
) is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in the Raleigh/Durham area. If you are a highly motivated professional who wants to work with a high performing team to deliver a high quality user experience for our customers then please read on.
As an SRE in the Ansible organization, you will be working across geos with technical team members to analyze, design, develop, debug, and deliver new products and feature functionality for the Ansible offerings. You will get an opportunity to collaborate with diverse agile teams around the world to deliver value for our customers and partners in an open source way. This is also a great opportunity to hone your skills while working with a wide range of modern languages, frameworks, and technologies. You will also become a part of Red Hat’s culture, which makes us unique in the industry. You will work with
communities
(f.e.
https://www.ansible.com/community
) passionate about open source software. Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.
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
Required Skills:
Passion for learning new technologies, building elegant software systems, troubleshooting complex technical issues, and automation.
Basic knowledge of software development life cycle tools, like GitHub and Jenkins.
Software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile or scrum processes
3+ years of software engineering experience using object-oriented languages; Python or Golang a plus
3+ years experience managing Linux-based systems in a public cloud such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
1+ year experience with Kubernetes
1+ year experience with containers on Linux
Demonstrated ability to quickly and accurately troubleshoot systems issues
Solid understanding of standard TCP/IP networking and common protocols like DNS and HTTP
Excellent communications skills in a global team environment
Good written and verbal communication skills in English
Experience with the following is considered a plus:
Writing Ansible playbooks and administering the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Familiarity with observability platforms (such as Dynatrace, DataDog, etc)
Cloud native development/administration experience
Prior experience working on a globally distributed, remote team
The salary range for this position is $90,480.00 - $144,660.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.
Pay Transparency
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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.
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.
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