About the job
The Red Hat Performance and Scale Team is looking for an experienced senior level engineer to join our passionate global team to test, measure, analyze software performance and improve performance and scale of Red Hat OpenShift, the industry leading enterprise Kubernetes platform to help user workloads do more.
This role will focus on the scalability of Red Hat Openshift in our Managed Services (SaaS) offerings across AWS, Azure, GCP and other cloud providers. The Engineer will leverage their knowledge of systems performance in the cloud to theorize bottlenecks and limitations, devise test plans, execute workloads, collect and analyze data, and communicate findings. This role will require the ability to work cross-functionally with Product Management, Engineering Leadership, Development Teams and Quality Engineers to measure performance, clearly articulate findings and fix bottlenecks. Time will also be spent in collaboration with software engineering teams on bug fixes, code optimization and reduction of resource usage, and in developing open source tools for reliability and repeatability of tests.
Our team is global and diverse, and as such the location for this role is flexible. The Engineer may be located in one of our many global offices or may work permanently remotely.
What you will do?
Work closely with management, product owners, developers, and quality engineers to understand product requirements and build suitable performance test plans to verify OpenShift’s performance and scalability limits
Develop sophisticated tests that perform user workload simulations through comprehensive end-to-end automation, leveraging custom built and state of the art open source tools and frameworks
Improve existing frameworks for automated continuous performance testing and develop new features that help with automatic performance regression identification
Deep dive into performance issues with the intent of discovering their root cause on complex distributed systems deployed on cloud infrastructure
Design and develop monitoring and reporting tools to do performance and scale tests and analysis
Document your research and results clearly and concisely, and communicate findings both internally and externally
What you will bring?
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of experience in performance engineering or systems/software engineering or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and 7+years of experience in performance engineering or systems/software engineering
Demonstrable experience or understanding and passion for performance engineering
Strong programming, debugging, and profiling skills
Experience with CI/CD systems and frameworks
Hands-on experience with performance measurement, analysis, and optimization
Experience with distributed systems
Very strong Linux system administration and system engineering skills
Solid scripting skills, particularly with Bash, Python, or Ansible
Experience working with public clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP or IBM Cloud
Knowledge of database fundamentals
Experience analyzing and interpreting large volumes of test results and succinctly communicating findings through easy to understand graphs/charts
Experience with collaborative software development methodologies, tools and version control
Knowledge of statistical analysis and experimental design techniques
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to work with independence and to proactively seek collaboration
Experience with container technologies like podman or docker and familiarity with building container images
Working knowledge of Kuberentes or OpenShift
Experience with system performance engineering and metrics collection tools like iostat, vmstat, sar, perf, and prometheus
Familiarity with monitoring and dashboarding tools like Prometheus and Grafana
Record of contributing to an open source project
Presentation skills and public speaking skills for conferences and demonstrations
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