Principal Software Engineer - Red Hat OpenShift Installer (EMEA)

The Red Hat OpenShift Installer team is looking for a Principal/Senior Software Engineer to join us in Ireland, Czech Republic, Portugal or Italy as remote or onsite in our offices.

The Red Hat OpenShift Installer team is responsible for the development and maintenance of OpenShift installation tooling used to deploy OpenShift clusters, with specific focus on public clouds such as AWS, Azure and GCP. This includes also provisioning and cleanup of underlying cloud infrastructure resources needed for cluster deployments.

You’ll be a key member of our OpenShift team and focus on building world-class technologies in hybrid cloud, system engineering, and Kubernetes management. In this role, you will contribute to the engineering of features related to the deployment and lifecycle management of Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. You’ll play a specific part in defining the architecture for our deployment infrastructure and in developing these from inception, through upstream development to delivery in Red Hat products.

You’ll be responsible for all aspects of quality for Red Hat OpenShift Installer, including designing test plans, extending automation frameworks, developing new automated tests and taking care of continuous integration for our component. You’ll play a specific part in designing and ensuring supportability of the architecture for our deployment infrastructure, through upstream development to delivery in Red Hat products. You will make sure our solutions fulfill the highest possible enterprise quality, performance, usability, and supportability.

You’ll need to be passionate about modern software development and open source and have broad software engineering experience, combined with Linux, networking, containers and cloud platforms management skills. We expect you to employ strong critical thinking and problem solving to ensure high quality of the product and customer satisfaction.

What you will do

• Focus on advancing and extending deployment tooling of Red Hat OpenShift to target cloud platforms, especially AWS, Azure and GCP
• Develop and maintain multiple components of Red Hat OpenShift
• Implement and maintain test plans and Prow based CI testing for OpenShift deployment components and features to support excellent quality, stability, supportability and consistency of the platform
• Investigate, communicate, and troubleshoot high priority bugs and escalated issues and propose systemic solutions to avoid similar problems happening again
• Keep learning cloud platforms to stay up to date with new and obsoleted features
• Contribute to team wide adoption of AI tooling to improve overall team performance
• Get involved in open source community projects

What you will bring

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Go and Shell programming skills are required; familiarity with other languages is a plus
• Experience with and understanding of Kubernetes architecture; OpenShift is a plus
• Experience with large-scale deployment architectures, cloud infrastructure provisioning and management on at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with designing, developing and executing test plans, test automation and continuous integration frameworks like Prow or Jenkins
• Experience with and understanding of Linux, networking and containers
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills with ability to debug problems in complex loosely coupled environments
• Proven ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively in a distributed, global team environment, with solid written and verbal communication skills in English

The following are considered a plus

• Good track record of contributions to relevant open source projects
• Passion for leveraging AI tools for personal and team growth
• Preference for test-driven development

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.

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