Software Engineer - OpenStack Deployment (Waterford, Ireland)

Job Summary

The Red Hat OpenStack Engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer to join our team in Waterford, Ireland. In this role you will work within the operations pillar of OSP engineering as a member of the deployment framework team. Involve yourself with upstream community projects, and collaborate internally with other RHOSP engineering teams to help guide new features, use

cases, and integrations. From our office in Waterford, Ireland you will participate as a member of

a geographically distributed team, using multiple communication tools for close collaboration. Prior experience contributing to OpenStack projects is preferred. Knowledge of OpenStack or OpenShift and prior DevOps contributions in this domain is a plus.

What you will do:

• Participate in a team of developer and quality engineers to build the next generation of

configuration & provisioning tooling for data plane nodes in a Red Hat OpenStack on OpenShift (RHOSO) deployment.

• Develop and maintain deployment and management solutions across multiple versions of Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP)
• Troubleshooting and debugging of OpenStack infrastructure configuration & orchestration.
• Working across functional teams to utilize a broad skill set to resolve RHOSP dependency

and layered product integration issues.

• Become a recognized upstream contributor to related projects
• Develop test automation to deliver new features and improve RHOSO reliability, and UX,

using Ansible playbooks/roles/plugins, Python and GO.

• Contribute to the delivery of Red Hat OpenStack release cadence
• Participate in the continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) quality assurance process
• Provide excellent customer service of issues escalated into engineering

What you will bring:

• Software development & test automation experience

● Experience developing in Python and GO

• Experience with one or more of the following: Ansible, OpenStack Platform, Kubernetes, Podman and other container tools
• Open source software development experience is a plus
• Knowledge of cloud computing, configuration management, and orchestration
• Ability to be work on a distributed team and contribute to an inclusive, open, and

collaborative workplace

• Good English communication skills, both written and verbal

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