Senior Software Engineer - Openshift Service Mesh Istio Czech Republic jobs at Red Hat in Italy

What You Will Do

• Design, develop and implement networking solutions for Red Hat's next-generation platforms, including Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift

• Become responsible for the quality of our offerings, participate in peer code reviews and continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) and respond to security threats (CVEs)

• Participate in, lead and create upstream networking project communities, including contributing new development work and existing features and fixes for projects like Kubernetes (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/) , OVN-Kubernetes (https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn-kubernetes/) and Open Virtual Networking (OVN) (https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn)

• Use your deep networking expertise to help customers solve complex business problems with creative solutions

What You Will Bring

• Strong networking knowledge, including expertise in one or more of switching and routing protocols

• Experience with cloud technologies, network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN)

• Experience using programming languages like Go, Python or C/C++ Understanding of how open source and free software communities work

• Motivated with a proactive attitude, willingness to tackle new problems and an ability to develop new architectures and identify good ones

• Ability to work well as part of a team in a highly collaborative, distributed environment with a diverse team

• Good communication skills in English

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift and container networking technologies

• Experience with Linux networking technologies

• Experience with development for public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Microsoft Azure

• Ability to present to customers and stakeholders

• Previous contributions to open source projects or being an open source maintainer

About the Job:

In this role, you will create possibilities, solve problems, and establish working relationships with our customers. You will help our customers to invest in solutions from across the Red Hat portfolio that will give them a competitive advantage. You'll also support field sales account managers in managing accounts in the commercial market (which includes small and medium enterprise). As an Account Solution Architect you'll need to have technical expertise, passion for open source, thorough understanding of business processes, and the ability to identify and create business solutions across multiple technology platforms at an enterprise level. You'll also need excellent communication and people skills, because you'll be a crucial part of the first impression our customers have with Red Hat.

What you will do:

• Acts as the chief technologist for the account and a trusted advisor to the customer's technical teams;

• Leads the technical sales conversation, explaining the ways in which Red Hat’s portfolio and architected solutions address the customer’s business and organizational requirements;

• Gathers technical information about the customer and identifies opportunities;

• Owns the Technical Landscape and the Success Plan, and influences the overall Account Plan;

• Proves through demonstration and discussion how the use of the Red Hat portfolio is able to solve customer problems;

• Identifies and mitigates any technical sales issues;

• Works closely with the Sales Account Manager to operate according to the strategy, and to coordinate and hold accountable the extended sales team.

What you will bring:

• Experience with Kubernetes ecosystem, enterprise automation technologies, Linux operating systems, Cloud Service Providers (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP)

• Knowledge of DevOps concepts, tools and best practices, and Application Development concepts

• Experience with Java programming language and/or Go language.

• Ability to translate technical knowledge and skills into proposals, presentations, standard demos & customer workshops

• Ability to orchestrate resources and influence internal and external stakeholders

• Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English in addition to the Italian local mother language

• Willingness to travel up to 50%

In this role, you will work directly with our customers to understand their technical and business goals around application development, deployment and life cycle in order to design the appropriate application platform solutions. You'll run live demonstrations, workshops and proofs of concept around our Red Hat offerings to educate customers on their capabilities and help them design new and innovative solutions to address their challenges. To succeed in this role, you will need a balance of technical acumen, a passion for open source, and a deep understanding of business processes and the IT problems faced at the enterprise level. You'll also need excellent communication and people skills, as you'll be a crucial part of the first experience our customers have with Red Hat.

What You Will Do

• Lead live demonstrations, workshops, and Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to showcase Red Hat’s Application Services and validate solutions.

• Perform hands-on PoCs to demonstrate the feasibility and value of proposed solutions

• Lead cloud and container conversations: Educate customers on the benefits of OpenShift and cloud-native technologies. Position OpenShift as the ideal platform for their cloud-native journey.

• Discover and analyze customers' business and technical problems, and design the appropriate Red Hat solution that aligns to their needs

• Utilize your deep technical expertise to assist sales teams in answering customer questions

• Form strategic relationships with the customers’ associates to identify new opportunities

• Own and attain a bookings quota by performing regular reviews and reporting on customer opportunities

• Share your expertise by contributing to documentation (e.g., wikis, quick-start guides, blog posts, and whitepapers), developing reusable assets (e.g., demonstrations, workshops) and presenting at conferences and industry events

• Collaborate broadly with account teams, Red Hat Engineering and Business Units, Professional Services, Sales teams, and partners to ensure excellent customer experience with our offerings and solutions.

What You Will Bring

• Deep experience in developing enterprise level applications and services using Java or similar programming languages

• Deep experience with building and deploying applications using modern CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with Kubernetes and containers-based platforms such as OpenShift

• Experience in sales engineering, consulting, IT architecture, or equivalent in supporting large organizations

• Excellent communication, presentation, documentation and problem-solving skills

• Positive team player attitude and strong desire to make our customers successful

• Ability to understand customers' challenges, requirements and technical issues and collaborate to address those with the appropriate technologies and solutions

• Fluent language skills in English

• Willingness to travel up to 50% (as customer needs) across Italy

One Or More Of The Following Is a Plus

• Knowledge of development technologies similar to Spring Boot, Node.js, JBoss EAP, JakartaEE, OpenJDK, and Quarkus

• Knowledge of enterprise application integration technologies similar to Fuse (Camel), API management (3Scale), and AMQ Streams (Kafka)

• Experience or certification with any public cloud provider

• Any Red Hat certification

What you will do

• Collaborate with peers and the Istio community on the design and development of features, enhancements, and bug fixes within Istio

• Develop examples demonstrating features of Istio within Red Hat OpenShift

• Engage with our support team to help them resolve customer issues

• Work with our documentation team to improve documentation related to the use of Istio within OpenShift

• Interact with globally distributed open source project teams and communities inside and outside of Red Hat

What you will bring

• Experienced in software development

• Experience programming with Go, with experience implementing controllers and/or operators on Kubernetes

• Experience working with cloud technologies like Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, and/or other cloud platforms

• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and protocols such as TCP, TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, etc.

• Ability to proactively identify, address, and resolve issues with minimal supervision

• Written and verbal English communication skills

• Passion for open source software, a positive attitude, and a desire to share ideas openly

• Experience contributing to an open source project/community is a plus

What you will do

• Collaborate with peers and the Istio community on the design and development of features, enhancements, and bug fixes within Istio

• Mentor and coach junior team members, and work with cross functional teams across Red Hat

• Develop examples demonstrating features of Istio (https://github.com/istio) within Red Hat OpenShift

• Engage with our support team to help them resolve customer issues

• Work with our documentation team to improve documentation related to the use of Istio within OpenShift

• Interact with globally distributed open source project teams and communities inside and outside of Red Hat

What you will bring

• Highly experienced in software development

• 3+ years of experience programming with Go, with experience implementing controllers and/or operators on Kubernetes

• 3+ years experience working with cloud technologies like Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, and/or other cloud platforms

• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and protocols such as TCP, TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, etc.

• Ability to proactively identify, address, and resolve issues with minimal supervision

• Written and verbal English communication skills

• Passion for open source software, a positive attitude, and a desire to share ideas openly

• Experience contributing to an open source project/community is a plus

In this role you will work very closely with the development team and other quality engineers to develop and automate new test cases contributing to an already existing regression suite.

What you will do

• Develop and execute python based automated test cases for Subscription-Watch

• Expand test plans by creating test cases to cover new features or updating existing test cases to reflect changes in the software

• Troubleshoot failures and write clear bug reports and track them to closure

• Work with other members of Engineering to debug and troubleshoot problems

• Keep status up-to-date in relevant tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence)

What you will bring

• Experience in Python, particularly with object-oriented programming concepts, Python’s standard library, Pytest, and other commonly used libraries (i.e. Requests).

• Basic experience in Java is major plus

• Introductory experience with Linux / Unix commands

• Basic debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills

• Experience with writing automated tests and contributing to an existing test framework

• Written and verbal communication skills in English

• Experience with source code control (GIT preferred)

• Experience with continuous integration testing (e.g. Jenkins, Tekton, Github Actions) is a plus

• Knowledge of container technologies is a plus.

• General knowledge of Agile software development practices

What will you do:

• Provide legal support for the quickly growing business of Red Hat in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Italy is one of Red Hat’s major markets in EMEA and will be one of the focus countries/regions (including the public sector business)

• Be responsible for the negotiation of Open Source software related contracts, including software licensing and software maintenance agreements; consulting agreements; reseller, distributor, cloud, hosting, OEM and other partner agreements

• Be responsible for the negotiation of supply agreements for the growing demand of our procurement team

• Educate customers about open source licensing and Red Hat’s subscription business model

• Design the deals with view to revenue recognition principles, support and coach sales-teams on deal structure and contract negotiations

• be the central point of contact for the roll-out of any new and updated agreements (including liaising with external counsel and translators)

• Act as interface between Sales, Operations and Finance

• Coordinate with management, as appropriate, to ensure any and all contractual matters are handled in a timely, efficient, and cost-effective manner and to ensure that processes and procedures will be developed and applied consistently

• Serve as a point of contact for legal, intellectual property and policy issues for Red Hat EMEA executives

• Serve as a trusted advisor and business partner by providing counsel and guidance for the accomplishment of overall business objectives of Red Hat, such as fostering a culture of innovation, while ensuring full compliance with applicable laws and regulations and avoiding unacceptable risks. Develop a thorough understanding of and familiarity with Red Hat's business, its people, products, technology, markets, facilities, customers and competitors to identify trends and formulate strategies accordingly

• Participate in region-specific Legal initiatives and cross-regional projects

What will you bring:

• Master degree in law, preferably with an Italian legal qualification

• The ideal candidate is admitted to the national bar or holds an equivalent qualification

• 5+ years of professional experience as an attorney/in-house lawyer, including substantial commercial transactional experience

• Knowledge of the Italian public sector business would be a plus

• Willingness to relocate to one of the above Red Hat offices, willingness to travel from time to time

• Excellent communication skills. Ability to speak, write and negotiate fluently in English, and Italian

• Excellent oral and written communication skills; acute attention to detail; excellent analytical abilities

• Ability to work independently, prioritize and execute flawlessly on multiple concurrent and often competing deliverables, whilst managing expectations of the business and meeting deadlines

• Outstanding interpersonal skills, including diplomacy and flexibility, and the ability to interface effectively and engender trust and confidence with personnel at many different levels

• Ability to work as a team member of the legal department in a scalable and accountable manner

• Demonstrating flexibility and autonomy

• Enthusiasm and "self-starter" qualities enabling him or her to manage responsibilities with an appropriate sense of urgency; desire “to make things happen”

• Exposure to a US based company and understanding of the cultural nuances would be a plus