Job Summary
The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for a Senior / Principal Software Engineer to join us in EMEA. In this role, you will contribute to the engineering of features related to the deployment and life cycle management of Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV). You'll play a specific part in enhancing our offering, through upstream development, to delivery.
What You Will Do
- Play an active role in container and virtualization-related projects and communities like Forklift, Red Hat OpenShift, and KubeVirt
- Create and guide new feature development; contribute to open source projects in Golang, Ansible and Python
- Coordinate with team leads, architects, and other engineers on the design and architecture of our work
- Become responsible for the quality of our offerings, participate in peer code reviews and continuous integration (CI), and respond to security threats
- Work with Red Hat's Global Customer Support team and partner support teams on resolving customer issues
- Work with the Quality Engineering (QE) team to ensure that projects are tested correctly
- Publicize the team's work through blogs, web postings, or conference talks
What You Will Bring
- Advanced experience working in a Linux environment, GitHub with at least one language like Golang, Python or C/C++
- Experience with a container ecosystem like Docker, Kubernetes, or Red Hat OpenShift.
- Experience with microservices architectures and concepts including scale, APIs, versioning, monitoring, etc.
- Knowledge of Virtualization technologies such as KVM and virt-v2v.
- User-level familiarity with vSphere, RHV, or OpenStack
- Ability to examine various technological areas deeply and deliver solutions
- Debugging skills
- Proficient written and verbal communication skills in English
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent working experience
The Following Are Considered a Plus
- Experience with cloud development
- Admin-level familiarity with vSphere, RHV or OpenStack
- Familiarity with operator framework, networking, or storage
- Experience with Ansible
- Experience with Kubernetes build system (Bazel)
- Experience with open source 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 have the flexibility to choose the work environment that suits their needs from in-office to fully remote to office-flex. 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. Opportunities are open. Join us.
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