Red Hat is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to develop, scale, and operate our OpenShift managed cloud services. OpenShift is Red Hat’s enterprise Kubernetes distribution. As an SRE you will contribute to running OpenShift at scale by enabling customer self-service, making our monitoring system more sustainable, and eliminating work through automation.

On the SRE team, you will have the opportunity to influence the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Red Hat managed cloud services, while using your skills in coding, operations, and large-scale distributed system design.

Red Hat relies on teamwork and openness for its success. We are a global team and strive to cultivate a transparent environment that makes room for different voices. We learn from our failures in a blameless environment to support the continuous improvement of the team. At Red Hat, your individual contributions have more visibility than most large companies, and visibility means career opportunities and growth.

What you will do

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
Demonstrate proficiency in utilizing LLMs (e.g., Google Gemini), as relevant, for tasks such as brainstorming solutions, deep research, summarizing technical documentation, drafting communications, summarizing complex technical information, and enhancing problem-solving efficiency across the development lifecycle.
Proactively utilize AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) for code generation, auto-completion, and intelligent suggestions to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality.
Participate in AI-assisted code reviews, utilizing tools that provide real-time feedback, identify potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to coding standards, contributing to a more thorough and efficient review process.
Explore and experiment with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for AI integration within the software development lifecycle, driving continuous improvement and innovation in engineering practices; share use cases for successful experiments with stakeholders for broader use.

What you will bring

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving software or systems engineering is required. However, hands-on experience that demonstrates your ability and interest in Site Reliability Engineering are valuable to us, and may be considered in lieu of degree requirements. You must have some experience programming in at least one of these languages: Python, Golang, Java, C, C++ or another object-oriented language. You must have experience working with public clouds such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. You must also have the ability to collaboratively troubleshoot and solve problems in a team setting.
As an SRE you will be most successful if you have some experience troubleshooting an as-a-service offering (SaaS, PaaS, etc.) and some experience working with complex distributed systems. Direct experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift is a plus. We like to see a demonstrated ability to debug, optimize code and automate routine tasks. We are Red Hat, so you need a basic understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems.

Desired skills

5+ years of experience managing Linux servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, or Fedora hosted at a cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Engine (GCE), or Microsoft Azure
3+ years of experience with enterprise systems monitoring; knowledge of Prometheus is a plus
3+ years of experience with enterprise configuration management software like Ansible by Red Hat, Puppet, or Chef
2+ years of experience programming with at least one object-oriented language; Golang, Java, or Python are preferred
2+ years of experience delivering a hosted service
Demonstrated ability to quickly and accurately troubleshoot system issues
Solid understanding of standard TCP/IP networking and common protocols like DNS and HTTP
Solid communications skills and experience working directly with and presenting to customers
1+ year(s) of experience with Kubernetes is a plus
1+ year(s) of experience with docker-based containers is a plus

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