Red hat Senior Site Reliability Engineer 

New Zealand 

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What you will do

The day-to-day responsibilities of an SRE involve working with live systems and coding automation. As an SRE you will be expected to:

• 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

What you will bring

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving software or systems engineering

• Experience programming in at least one of these languages: Python, Golang, Java, C, C++ or another object-oriented language.

• Experience working with public clouds such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Experience troubleshooting an as-a-service offering (SaaS, PaaS, etc.) Have the ability to collaboratively troubleshoot and solve problems in a team setting.

• Experience working with complex distributed systems.

• Direct experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift is a plus.

• Demonstrated ability to debug, optimize code and automate routine tasks.

• Basic understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems.

Desired skills

• 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 are 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

• 1+ year(s) of experience with Kubernetes is a plus

• 1+ year(s) of experience with docker-based containers is a plus