Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Red Hat

Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Red Hat, designing and managing hybrid OpenShift Platforms. Collaborate in a global team, addressing scale challenges and driving automation.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeRemote • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $118,600 - $195,680 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDNSGoGrafanaKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPrometheusPythonSplunkTCP/IP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and manage our large-scale infrastructure and platform services, including public cloud, private cloud, and datacenter-based
Automate cloud infrastructure through use of technologies (e.g. auto scaling, load balancing, etc.), scripting (python and golang), monitoring and alerting solutions (e.g. Splunk, Splunk IM, Prometheus, Grafana, Catchpoint, DataDog etc)
Design, develop, and become expert in IT’s Red Hat OpenShift offerings by leveraging emerging industry standards
Build & support standardized CI/CD platform components using OpenShift Pipelines and Tekton, GitLab to enable multiple application deployments
Apply Infrastructure as Code methodologies using GitOps practices with ArgoCD for declarative platform management
Breakdown complex engineering efforts into consumable chunks while working with teams to understand deliverables
Design and development of software like Kubernetes operators, webhooks, cli-tools
Implement and maintain intelligent infrastructure and application monitoring designed to enable application engineering teams
Ensure the production environment is operating in accordance with established procedures and best practices
Lead escalation support for high severity and critical platform-impacting events
Provide feedback around bugs and feature improvements to the various Red Hat Product Engineering teams
Design software tests and lead peer reviews 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, supporting the operation needs of our tenants
Drive sustainable incident response and lead blameless postmortems
Work within a small agile team to develop and improve SRE methodologies, support your peers, plan and self-improve

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience operating production services on Kubernetes / OpenShift
3+ years of programming experience in Python , Go
2+ years of experience of using cloud providers and technologies (Google, Azure, Amazon, etc.)
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes / OpenShift, Linux AWS
Experience with GitOps workflows for managing infrastructure or application configuration
Solid understanding of Linux systems administration (RHEL/Fedora preferred)
Understanding of standard networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/TLS) and authentication protocols ( LDAP )
Comfort with incident response, on-call responsibilities
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while keeping the team informed
Knowledge of SRE principles — SLOs, error budgets, toil measurement

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesOpenShiftPythonGoLinux Systems AdministrationGitOpsCloud TechnologiesInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDMonitoring Solutions

Soft Skills

CollaborationMentoringIndependent WorkIncident ResponseKnowledge Sharing