The Red Hat Performance and Scale Organization is seeking a seasoned senior engineer to join our OpenShift Platform Performance and Scale Team to test, measure, and analyze the performance and scalability of Red Hat OpenShift, the leading application modernization platform built on Kubernetes, to support the evolution of OpenShift Networking for serving a wide variety of customer use cases.
Requirements
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes or OpenShift.
- Strong programming, debugging, and profiling skills in Python and/or Golang.
- Hands-on experience with performance measurement, analysis, and optimization.
- Experience with distributed systems.
- Thorough understanding of the TCP/IP stack and experience with Software Defined Networking Technologies like OVN (Open Virtual Network) and OpenvSwitch or similar
- Very strong Linux system administration and system engineering skills.
- Solid scripting skills, particularly with Bash, Python, or Ansible.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with management, product owners, developers, and quality engineers to understand product requirements and build suitable test plans to verify the performance and scale of OpenShift Networking features and solutions that are based on the Mutlus, OVNKubernetes and OVN (Open Virtual Network) and OpenvSwitch projects.
- Develop sophisticated tests that simulate user workloads through comprehensive end-to-end automation, leveraging custom-built and state-of-the-art open-source tools and frameworks.
- Deep dive into performance issues with the intent of discovering their root causes in complex distributed systems.
- Design and develop monitoring and reporting tools for performance and scale tests and analysis.
- Document your research and results clearly and concisely, and communicate findings both internally and externally.
- Engage in upstream communities to help test performance and scale early and influence design and development decisions.
- Triage, debug, and root cause customer issues related to OpenShift performance and scale.
Other
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrable experience, understanding, and passion for performance engineering.
- Experience working with public clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP, or IBM Cloud, as well as bare metal environments.
- Experience analyzing and interpreting large volumes of test results and succinctly communicating findings through easy-to-understand graphs/charts.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
