Site Reliability Engineer

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**About the job**



The Red Hat Cloud Services Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is looking for a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join us in New Zealand.

In this role, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining the mission-critical infrastructure and tools used to deliver Red Hat’s managed services to enterprise customers.

You’ll get the opportunity to gain real-world experience with modern technologies like containerization and microservices in a Red Hat OpenShift or Enterprise Kubernetes context using SRE principles.

This is also an exciting opportunity to expand your existing DevOps skills to help create the next generation of managed services for Red Hat.





**What you will do**



+ Engage in and improve the whole life cycle of services, including inception, design, deployment, operation, and refinement

+ Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity

+ Interact with automated monitoring and healing infrastructure to ensure healthy environments

+ Develop automation to autocorrect or completely prevent issues in our online solutions

+ Participate in release cycles of our offerings, deploying code to integration, staging, and production environments, integrating with continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tools, monitoring, and providing change management

+ Perform software updates, peer code reviews, testing, and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) analysis; respond to security threats

+ Resolve customer issues in cooperation with Red Hat's global customer support team

+ Create and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for performing maintenance tasks, applying configuration changes, and remediating problems in our environment

+ Participate in a regular shift and on-call rotation, this will include a weekend working schedule

+ Play an important part in the development of SRE processes and culture



**What you will bring**



+ Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a technology-related discipline

+ 3+ years of experience in software development and engineering

+ Fluent programming skills in languages like Python, Go, Java, or C

+ Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, or Red Hat OpenShift; skilled in at least one of these areas and capable of learning the rest quickly

+ Experience using logging and monitoring tools like Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, and New Relic

+ Thorough knowledge of how applications communicate over HTTP with services located on different web properties, including RESTful APIs and microservices

+ Outstanding communication and documentation skills in English

+ Ability to work in a globally distributed team



Experience with the following is considered a plus:



+ Engineering distributed architectures like microservices and service-oriented architecture

+ Operating Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, podman, rkt, cri-o, or other container tools in a production environment

+ Developing a Kubernetes controller, operator, or platform component and implementing CI and CD pipelines for highly available applications

+ Open source software

+ Linux system administration



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**Posting Location : Location** _NZ-Remote_

**Posting date** _3 weeks ago_ _(11/8/2022 11:36 PM)_



**_Job ID_** _96606_

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