Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Red Hat

full-time

Posted on: 9/18/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Colorado

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💰 $111,260 - $183,580 per year

Senior

AnsibleAWSAzureChefCloudDistributed SystemsDNSDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftOpen SourcePrometheusPuppetPythonTCP/IPUnix

About the role

Develop, scale, and operate OpenShift managed cloud services
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
Enable customer self-service, make monitoring more sustainable, and eliminate work through automation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field required (hands-on experience may be considered in lieu of degree)
Experience programming in at least one language: Python, Golang, C, or another object-oriented language
Experience working with public clouds such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
Ability to collaboratively troubleshoot and solve problems in a team setting
Experience troubleshooting an as-a-service offering (SaaS, PaaS) and working with complex distributed systems (preferred)
Basic understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems
5+ years of experience managing Linux servers running RHEL, CentOS, or Fedora hosted at cloud providers such as AWS, GCE, or Azure [desired]
3+ years of experience with enterprise systems monitoring; knowledge of Prometheus is a plus [desired]
3+ years of experience with enterprise configuration management software like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef [desired]
2+ years of experience programming with at least one object-oriented language; Golang, Java, or Python preferred [desired]
2+ years of experience delivering a hosted service [desired]
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