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Red Hat Engineering is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Telco 5G Platform Partner Architecture team. You will be part of a team responsible for designing and implementing the container platform for 5G telecommunication networks, contributing to industry-leading technologies in the Kubernetes and Telecom ecosystem, for example CNCF projects, and O-RAN.  You will be working on industry-leading projects and technologies and breaking new ground with Telco Partners in EMEA.

As a part of a geographically distributed team, you will work with multiple Red Hat teams and open source communities around the globe.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have motivation, curiosity, passion for problem solving, and experience with Linux technologies, Kubernetes and open source development models.  We can hire you in any of Europe countries where Red Hat has a legal entity.

What you will do

• Define, contribute to, and collaborate with Telco partners on Blueprints and system architectures pairing Red Hat platforms with Partner technology
• Establish long-term technical relationships with key Telco partners, gathering and analyzing partner requirements and use cases to deliver meaningful business outcomes
• Play an active hands-on role in researching and then architecting various OpenShift and Telco specific features into a unified solution, proactively test the involved technologies, experiment and provide demonstrations
• Collaborate across teams (Product Management, Engineering, QE, Consulting, Support) to influence future directions and be an advocate for feature development and support needed for strategic partners’ next generation offerings
• Evangelize the team's work through blogs, web postings, or conference talks
• Troubleshoot, analyze bug root causes, and provide resolutions
• Work with the quality engineering (QE) team to ensure effective and complete test coverage

What you will bring

• Architectural experience developing solution designs / reference implementations from concept to delivery
• Experience working with Partners to develop and implement new technologies, with an ability to adapt and quickly learn
• Hands on Kubernetes and/or OpenShift technologies experience - 5+ years
• Telco specific experience and knowledge in Edge designs, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, NFV architecture and containerized workload characteristics
• Comfortable working on large multidisciplinary problems and bringing together a diverse set of technical options to a clear path forward.  
• Experience with Linux system programming in a distributed telecom environment, or experience and designing and integrating distributed systems in a telecom environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

The following are considered a plus:

• 7+ years of experience in a Linux environment with at least one of the following languages: Golang, Python, Java, or C/C++
• Experience with virtualization technologies (QEMU, KVM, etc)
• Experience with Real Time Linux 
• Experience with container related technologies (docker, cri-o, etcd)
• Familiarity with the wider Kubernetes and CNCF project ecosystem and O-RAN
• Leading or contributing to open source communities or code samples on GitHub
• Strong experience with automation tools and/or scripting languages (Ansible, bash, python)
• You’re willing to wear a lot of red or a red hat
• Latency sensitive workload tuning (IEQ lines, CPU pinning, NUMA affinity, etc)
• System and performance engineering analysis and a proven track record of unlocking performance in constrained environments.
• Linux networking or SDN related development contribution
• Certified RHEL/Kubernetes Administrator

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