Red hat Software Engineer - OpenShift Virtualization Performance 

United States, Massachusetts, Boston 

466745285

What you will do

• Formulate test plans, and carry out performance and scalability benchmarks against various storage components/features of the OCPv platform to characterize performance, drive product performance improvements, and detect performance regressions through data analysis and visualization

• Develop tools and automation to aid the performance benchmarking work

• Collaborate with other engineering teams to resolve performance issues

• Triage, debug, and solve customer/partner cases related to virtualization storage performance and scale

• Publish results, conclusions, recommendations and best practices via internal test reports, presentations, external blogs and official documentation to support our partners and customers.

• Participate in internal and external conferences about your work and results

What you will bring

• Experience in performance benchmarking, data capture, and data analysis.

• Experience with storage systems and protocols (NAS, SAN, NFS, iSCSI, RBD, etc)

• Experience with testing windows technologies like MsSql, Win Desktop / Citrix / VDI, .Net etc.

• Experience with container technologies (Podman, Kubernetes)

• Experience with systems performance engineering and metrics collection and analysis tools such as iostat, vmstat, sar, perf, pcp, prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch

• Strong programming skills in Python

• Hands-on experience working with the Linux operating system

• Excellent written and verbal language skills in English

The following are considered a plus

• 3+ years of relevant experience

• Experience of working with virtualization technologies such as VMware

• Familiarity with storage APIs (snapshot, clone, provision, attach), Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

• Experience of working with Ansible automation platform

• Knowledge of performance observability/profiling tools like eBPF, Flame Graphs

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related fields

• Experience of Git or similar version control system

The salary range for this position is $90,480.00 - $144,660.00. 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