Platform Consultant - Infrastructure

Posted:
7/15/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia ⋅ Bogota Capital District - Municipality, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Remote

The Red Hat Support Engineering group is seeking a Platform Consultant to help resolve issues for enterprise customers by providing high-level technical support and sustaining engineering services to maximise uptime and reduce IT costs. The Support Engineering group is dedicated to resolving issues quickly and efficiently. In this role, you will collaborate with our customers' top developers and architects and assist our technical support engineers with complex and challenging issues. You'll also partner closely with development engineering teams and work alongside some of the brightest developers in the open source community and with Red Hat’s critical strategic cloud partners such as Microsoft to jointly solve multi-vendor customer issues. This position is a great opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing enterprise software and services companies and the leader of open source software.

What you will do:

  • Partner with the OpenShift Container Platform, OpenShift Dedicated, OpenShift Online and OpenShift Origin communities to develop and review patches and test cases

  • Analyze upstream development against current customer reported defects and develop patches to resolve the issue

  • Use tools like curl, git, docker, Kubernetes, strace, and wireshark to investigate and troubleshoot technical issues

  • Record customer interactions including investigation, troubleshooting, and resolution of issues

  • Work closely with Red Hat development engineering, and assist production support engineers and technical account managers

  • Partner with Red Hat strategic cloud partners such as Microsoft to jointly solve multi-vendor customer issues.

  • Demonstrate considerable judgment in selecting methods and techniques to obtain solutions

  • Maintain a commitment to providing the best experience possible for Red Hat customers

  • Manage your workload to ensure that all customer issues are handled and resolved in a timely manner

  • Assist in the development of comprehensive and reusable self-service solutions for future incidents

What you will bring:

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field; engineering or computer science is preferred

  • 4+ years of experience as a support or development engineer for Platform as a Service Provider or Hosting Service.

  • 4+ years of experience with Linux, or Unix operating systems.

  • Experience working with hosted applications, or large scale application deployments.

  • Experience with docker, kubernetes, openvswitch, JBoss, Tomcat, NodeJS, Ruby (web frameworks), Python (web frameworks), Azure and .NET.

  • Experience with AWS, CloudFoundry is a plus

  • Experience with developer workflows, Continuous Integration (Jenkins) and Continuous Deployments paradigms.

  • Good understanding of Linux tools, with an emphasis on curl, git, docker, kubernetes, strace, wireshark.

  • Linux operating system installation, configuration, upgrade, and maintenance experience is highly preferred

  • Solid development-level experience with multiple programming languages and experience writing patches or pull requests.  

  • Upstream involvement in open source projects (patches submitted for upstream inclusion) is a plus

  • Excellent reading and writing skills in English; fluent English language skills are preferred

  • Commitment to providing the best experience possible for Red Hat customers

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