The Red Hat Performance and Scale team is looking for an Associate Software Engineer to join our Chaos Engineering initiative in Bangalore, India. In this role, you will work as part of a team responsible for ensuring Red Hat OpenShift is resilient and performant under failures. Motivation, curiosity, passion for reliability, automation, performance, scalability, problem solving skills and experience with Linux technologies and open source are highly valued. As part of a geographically distributed team you will collaborate with multiple Red Hat engineering teams and open source communities around the globe.
What will you do?
Formulate test plans, and carry out chaos testing, performance and scalability benchmarks against various components/features of the OCP platform to characterize reliability, resilience, drive product performance improvements, and detect regressions through data analysis and visualization under failure conditions such as network faults, infrastructure failures, storage faults etc.
Work on capacity planning guidance for the product to handle failures while still being performant
Develop tools and automation related to fault injection, load generation and release CI
Work on AI integration to improve test coverage
Assist customers
Collaborate with other engineering teams to resolve resilience and performance issues
Triage, debug, and solve customer/partner cases related to virtualization reliability, performance and scale
Publish results, conclusions, recommendations and best practices via internal test reports, presentations, external blogs and official documentation to support our partners and customers.
Participate in internal and external conferences about your work and results
What will you bring?
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science related field and demonstrable experience or understanding of and passion for chaos, performance or systems engineering and testing
Linux system administration knowledge
Scripting and programming skills, particularly with Bash, Python or Go or Ansible
Experience working with clouds like AWS , Azure, GCP , IBM etc.
Experience with collaborative software development methodologies, tools, and version control like Git
Experience with container technologies like podman and docker
Familiar with CI tools like Jenkins, Airflow, Prow or others
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
The following are considered a plus:
Working knowledge of Kubernetes or OpenShift
Presentation skills and speaking skills for conferences and demonstrations
Familiarity with monitoring and dashboarding tools like Prometheus and Grafana
Experience or interest in learning Go
Experience or interest in learning AI
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