Red hat Principal Software Engineer 

United States, North Carolina, Raleigh 

723081669

This is a position for someone who:

• Wants to take infrastructure and application deployment technology to the next level with end-to-end automation across multiple IaaS providers and solutions.

• Values open culture and open decision framework.

• Thrives on taking on new challenges.

• Enjoys working as part of a dynamic, global team.

What You Will Do:

• Architect, design, build, customize, manage and administer large scale infrastructure and platform services including AI Technologies, public cloud, private cloud, and datacenter services for P+GE organization and beyond for Red Hat.

• Strong experience with managing Hyper Clouds like AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud and adopting similar Cloud administration strategies to onboard Gov Clouds and Niche clouds.

• Design a complete and complex framework for infrastructure and automation of administration and management of infrastructure. Use languages or tools like Python, GO, Puppet, Terraform and Ansible.

• Architect and deliver services and tools needed to manage infrastructure efficiency and in a cost effective manner. Maintain high availability of the infrastructure with no downtime.

• Defines processes and runbooks to scale the infrastructure and system specifications based on diverse usage of the P+GE community.

• Provides multi-layered technical expertise for next generation initiatives to support growing Red Hat Products and Engineering organization.

• Develop new services and capabilities to support a Hybrid Data Center model suitable for Red Hat P+GE (Support environments for Development, QE, CEE, CI, UX, Software production teams).

• Evaluate, architect and implement and integrate tools like Bugzilla, Slack, JIRA, Github across multiple organizations

Leadership:

• Work to supply strategic direction to meet and enable Red Hat business goals for a group of technical Cloud Operational specialists across different business units.

• Partner with business groups to consult on technical solutions which drives the business forward.

• Act as SME and an escalation point to Senior and junior system engineers.

• Backlog management and prioritize backlog to roll out initiatives across products and global engineering teams.

• Write proposals and papers and communicate with Internal customers and vendors.

• Make presentations to client audiences or professional peers.

Mentoring:

• Provide mentorship to other staff members on the team and across the department.

• Provide technical guidance and influence the career development of Junior engineers.

What You Bring

• 15+ years in a systems or software engineering role in the infrastructure space

• 10+ years providing technical direction to two or more engineering teams

• Experience in automation of cloud and on-prem technologies (eg. Ansible, Puppet, CloudForms, AWS, GCP, etc.)

• Proven leadership in public cloud providers, specifically AWS, Google, Azure or others

• Understanding of dependencies across the infrastructure stack

• Experience with systems and IT operations

• Experience with infrastructure (storage, compute, networking) performance and capacity monitoring techniques

• Understanding with data protection and data resiliency technologies and practices

• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools

• Ability to code and script; Python + Bash (as must); Ruby, Go (nice to have)

• Experience with application development lifecycle, release engineering and/or CI/CD technologies and processes a plus

• Demonstrated track record of mentoring peers in areas of expertise

• Track record of providing technical overview of clients

The salary range for this position is $142,140.00 - $234,500.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● 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