Red hat Principal Software Engineer - Telco 5G 

South Korea, Seoul 

616165025

Job summary

You will be our team representative embedded with a leading Telco partner on site in the Seoul area.

What you will do

• Collaborate with Telco partners to create, review, and validate designs and enhancement proposals

• Play an active role in researching and then integrating various OpenShift and Telco specific features into a unified solution, proactively test the involved technologies, experiment and provide proof-of-concept demonstrations

• Advocate for feature development and support needed for strategic partners’ next generation offerings

• Collaborate with Telco partners to accelerate containerization of their offerings and integration with the Red Hat OpenShift platform to ensure outstanding functionality, performance, and reliability for introduction into Tier-1 5G networks worldwide

• Play an active role with Telco partners to advocate for certification and continuous integration (CI) processes

• Promote the Red Hat Telco stack, as for example universal base images (UBI), Red Hat Enterprise Data Plane Development Kit (RHEL DPDK) and OpenShift Operator Framework

• Work closely with project managers, product managers, and engineering teams to produce predictable schedules for the partners critical deliverables

• Contribute to the success of the team by sharing your work and expertise with the team, mentor and educate junior-level team members

• Publicize the team's work through blogs, web postings, and conference presentations

• Troubleshoot, analyze bugs, determine root causes, and provide resolutions

• Work with the Quality Engineering (QE) team to ensure effective test coverage

• Determines hardware compatibility and/or influences hardware design

What you will bring

• Hands on Kubernetes and/or OpenShift technologies experience - 5+ years

• Partner/customer managing demonstrable skills and experience

• Hands on skills on developing reference architectures and validated configurations from conceptions to implementation.

• Strong experience with networking technology (server, switch or appliance configuration), key networking protocols, tunneling technologies, switching, and routing

• Proficient in Linux operation and administration

• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and share knowledge with team members, partners and other peers

• Comfortable providing support and knowledge transfer for partners as they onboard Red Hat and open source new technologies that you are familiar with

• Working knowledge of CI and both agile and waterfall methodologies

• Telco specific knowledge and experience

• High Availability

• Performance characterization and optimization

• NFV architecture

• Edge designs

• O-RAN architecture

• Good written and verbal communication skills in English and and in Korean

The following are considered a plus:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent working experience

• Strong experience with automation tools and/or scripting languages (Ansible, bash, python)

• Hands on experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Open vSwitch (OVS), and Open Virtual Network (OVN)

• CKA and CKAD certifications

• Experience with container related technologies (docker / podman, cri-o, etcd)

• RHCE or equivalent RHEL knowledge