About the job
The Red Hat Ecosystem Engineering team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Telco Solutions and Enablement group. In this role you will be responsible for providing technical leadership and contributions to strategic 5G and next generation telco service provider offerings and solutions. You will be a member of a geographically distributed team which engages early and works closely with partners in Red Hat’s partner ecosystem, peer groups in Ecosystem Engineering, Red Hat product and sales teams, and with open source communities and standards bodies.
Project activities include architecting and designing repeatable solutions using Red Hat products, building proof of concepts to validate those solutions, integrating solutions into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, working with partners to onboard workloads and providing technical guidance to partners, customers and internal teams. To be successful in this role, you will need to thrive on designing and delivering positive outcomes to technically challenging problems while embracing and amplifying Red Hat’s core values of freedom, courage, commitment and accountability.
Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do
Architect and design repeatable solutions integrating Red Hat platforms and partner workloads using Red Hat products including Red Hat OpenShift
Build proof of concepts to validate those solutions
Collaborate within and across Red Hat product and engineering teams to identify and specify new features and capabilities required to realize telco service provider requirements and solutions
Proactively lead technical contributions and delivery of Telco Enablement projects and telco solutions
Advocate for your work and Red Hat’s position in open source communities and appropriate standards bodies
Provide technical expertise within Ecosystem Engineering
Work with managers to define and refine processes and work items
Mentor and lead others within your projects and across the group, fostering continuous improvement in a rapidly changing environment
Contribute to collective success through regular knowledge sharing within and outside the company
Serve as a voice of Red Hat for partnered development activities
About Red Hat
Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/) is the world’s leading provider of enterpriseopen source (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/open-source) software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
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What you will bring
Substantial industry experience with enterprise or telco software solutions integration
Experience with container development, virtualization, cloud computing or cloud-native development, and automation
Flexibility to work with a geographically distributed remote team
Experience contributing to open source communities, standards bodies, or community projects
Proficiency in Linux operation and administration
Excellent interpersonal and verbal skills; good written communication skills
Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat CoreOS, other Red Hat products and/or industry cloud or virtualization technologies
Knowledge of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Experience with developing operators for OpenShift or Kubernetes
Distributed system design and development experience
Experience in production telco or service provider environments, either as a network operator or vendor
Experience in software testing or CI/CD pipelines
Relevant domain-specific knowledge and experience includes a subset of:
Cloud-native applications and architectures
5G RAN
5G Core
Network functions virtualization (NFV)
Software defined networking (SDN)
Operational support system (OSS) or business support system (BSS)
