Posted almost 5 years ago

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The Red Hat Cloud Services Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join us in Westford, MA. In this position, you will play a key role in a team responsible for keeping managed services running in a Red Hat OpenShift environment available and secure. You’ll be responsible for problem detection and automated recovery scenarios, incident management, and understanding complicated, interconnected data points to determine when issues arise. As a site reliability engineer, you’ll need to be able to work in a complicated and fast-paced environment, while quickly learning new skills and creating ways to consistently meet service-level agreements (SLAs) and keep a cloud-based service running for our customers.

• Actively work to automatically detect potential issues in a large containerized environment
• Participate in a regular on-call schedule
• Write automation scripts to auto-correct or completely prevent issues in our online solution
• Resolve customer issues escalated from Red Hat's Global Support team
• Track and review changes in a highly dynamic environment
• Identify single points of failure and other high-risk architecture issues and propose more resilient resolutions
• Perform and oversee releases to ensure that proper life cycle and policies are followed
• Perform software updates, testing, and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) analyses
• Respond to security threats
• Create and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for performing maintenance tasks and remediating problems in our environment

• Experience running Linux server like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, or Fedora
• Basic knowledge of monitoring systems; knowledge of Zabbix or Nagios is a plus
• Basic understanding of configuration management systems like Red Hat Ansible Automation, Puppet, or Chef
• Demonstrated ability to quickly and accurately troubleshoot issues
• Experience with object-oriented programming in at least one dynamic language; experience with Python is a plus
• Solid understanding of standard TCP/IP networking and common protocols like DNS and HTTP

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with containers
• Some experience with cloud technologies like Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Red Hat OpenStack Platform, or Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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