Senior Engineer - Cluster Infrastructure

The Cluster Infrastructure team is a specialized engineering group that plays a pivotal role in bridging OpenShift's capabilities with major infrastructure service providers. They architect and maintain the critical integration layers that enable OpenShift clusters to seamlessly interact with and leverage cloud-native services across Azure, AWS, GCP, and other platforms. By harnessing the power of Cluster API, they implement declarative infrastructure management that allows organizations to provision, scale, and operate OpenShift clusters consistently across diverse environments. The team develops and enhances cloud-specific controllers and operators that automate complex infrastructure operations, ensuring optimal resource utilization and high availability while maintaining security and compliance with enterprise requirements. Working at the intersection of OpenShift's container platform and provider infrastructure services, these engineers contribute to both upstream open source projects and downstream enterprise solutions. They collaborate to implement new features, optimize performance, and ensure reliability of cloud-specific integrations. Through their work with technologies like cloud-controller-manager, they enable OpenShift clusters to efficiently manage resources such as load balancers, and networking, and other components, while maintaining the platform's vendor-neutral architecture. This team's expertise ensures that organizations can confidently deploy and manage OpenShift clusters at scale across any environment, supporting the hybrid cloud strategy that is central to modern enterprise operations.

What you will do:

• Collaborate with other engineers across the Red Hat OpenShift engineering team working alongside members of the Documentation, Support, and Quality Engineering (QE) teams

• Communicate and work effectively with all levels of end users and associates including senior management

• Interact with multiple teams in OpenShift, Red Hat, affiliated companies within open source communities

• Provide support for your component/code in production for internal and external customers

• Create technical specifications, designs, and associated documentation

• Demonstrate solutions through proof of concept where necessary

• Design and implement components, integration tests, lead code review

• Iterative test driven development

• Lead technical projects

• Maintain existing supported code

• Mentor junior engineers

• Problem-solving, troubleshooting, root cause analysis

• Test your component/code from unit through to E2E and continuously improve our CI system

• Create and guide new feature development, contribute to high profile and strategic open source projects in Kubernetes SIGs

• Create/submit patches for enhancements and bug fixes and review patches from other contributors

• Work closely with engineers on Open Source projects upstream and their downstream counterparts to deliver new capabilities

What you will bring:

• Basic understanding of architectural designs

• Proficient in design documentation

• Proficient in distributed Systems

• Proficient in Golang (or similar, eg C, C++, Python) 

• Proficient in Shell scripting

• Basic understanding of highly available systems, including load balancing, failover, logging, monitoring, alerting

• Basic understanding of operational production environments

• Proficient in containers

• Basic understanding of Kubernetes architecture and internals, controllers, deployments

• Proficient in Linux

• Basic understanding of major clouds such as AWS, GCP, Azure

• Proficient in CI/CD and build tools

• Proficient in Git, GitHub, GitLab

Nice to Have:

• Design and implement architectures, including resilience, scalability

• Drive technical strategy

• Establish coding standards

• Guide system architecture

• Actively participate and lead SIGs for open source projects

• Experience with Python

• Experience with Open Source communities

• Experience with Open Source SIG involvement role

• Experience with CoreOS/Fedora/Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• Experience with OpenShift

• Experience with JIRA

• Experience with Prometheus

• Experience with Prow

Pay Transparency

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Benefits
●    Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
●    Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
●    Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
●    Retirement 401(k) with employer match
●    Paid time off and holidays
●    Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
●    Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
●    Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more! 

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States. 

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