Software Engineer - OpenShift

Job Summary

The Red Hat OpenShift Edge Enablement Team (EMEA) is looking for a Software Engineer to join us in EMEA. In this role, you will work in an agile team and contribute to the engineering of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and its supporting components in the core of Kubernetes. As a Software Engineer, you will be a key contributor in implementing customer requirements and ensuring the evolving needs of Red Hat OpenShift’s rapidly growing customer base are met. You’ll work with various engineering teams as well as product management and other key stakeholders across the product to identify and prioritize features to existing and upcoming releases. You will work proactively with the open source Kubernetes community and lead the implementation of important improvements from the project in our software product.

You will be a part of Red Hat’s culture that makes us unique in the Industry, enriched with and,to name two.

Regardless of your role and designation, you will have the freedom to showcase your leadership skills and ability to bring innovative solutions to complex problems at any level that will help you to get wider visibility in our organization.

What you will do

• Develop architectural and design principles to improve the performance, capacity, and scalability of OpenShift for the edge.
• Explore and experiment with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling.
• Be a technical lead and handle aspects such as functionality, performance, resilience, reuse, comprehensibility, scalability, security, technology constraints, and tradeoffs.
• Communicate architectural decisions effectively to both stakeholders and technical staff.
• Work with other engineering teams, Product Management, and Support stakeholders to prioritize customer-facing features during planning, development, and delivery cycles.
• Develop features and bug fixes in Kubernetes and OpenShift within an agile team and as part of a global development organization.
• Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks, CI, and scripts with Golang for OpenShift testing and implementation.
• Be responsible for product quality, participate in peer code reviews, and respond to security threats.

What you will bring

• An engineering degree or higher, or equivalent in computer science or a related field
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes
• Experience writing code in the Go programming language
• Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with Root Cause Analysis experience
• Familiarity with testing methodologies and techniques
• Continuous learning mentality with proven ability to work across multiple technical projects in parallel
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CoreOS, Fedora, or Red Hat OpenShift, and an understanding of open source development models is a plus
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, Google Compute Engine (GCE), or Microsoft Azure is a plus
• Familiarity with enterprise application development and agile / scrum methodologies is a plus
• LI-OA1

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