About the Role
Red Hat is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team remotely in British Columbia or Alberta, Canada. In this role, you will help design, scale, and operate our managed cloud services built on Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat’s enterprise Kubernetes platform.
As an SRE, you’ll play a key role in running OpenShift at scale by improving reliability, enabling customer self-service capabilities, strengthening and sustaining our monitoring systems, and reducing operational toil through thoughtful automation. On the SRE team, you’ll tackle complex, large-scale distributed systems challenges that are unique to Red Hat’s managed cloud offerings. You’ll leverage your expertise in software engineering, operations, and systems design to build resilient, scalable solutions that directly impact customers worldwide.
Red Hat’s success is rooted in collaboration and openness. We are a globally distributed team that values transparency, diverse perspectives, and a blameless culture focused on continuous improvement. Here, your contributions are highly visible, giving you meaningful opportunities for career growth and impact.
Our commitment to open source innovation extends beyond our products, it shapes how we work. Red Hatters embrace change in a fast-evolving technology landscape and approach their work with a growth mindset. We actively encourage the responsible and thoughtful use of AI to streamline workflows, reduce complexity, and improve efficiency—empowering our teams to focus on high-impact initiatives and deliver smarter, more innovative solutions for our customers.
What You'll Do
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
Explore and experiment with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling.
What You'll Bring
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience
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 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
The Following Are Considered a Plus
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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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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