Senior Software Maintenance Engineer Red Hat OpenShift AI (Ireland and Czech Republic)

The Red Hat Sustaining Engineering team under Experience Engineering (XE) organization is looking for a Senior Software Maintenance Engineer to help a new team aimed at improving the long-term product experience of our Red Hat OpenShift AI(RHOAI) this role you will work closely with Product Engineering to deliver extended product maintenance work including handling bugs and CVEs in extended life streams of Red Hat OpenShift AI. Youll be actively driving all aspects of Red Hat OpenShift maintenance for a subset of product components focused on software development that goes beyond the normal maintenance phase of Red Hat OpenShift AI minor releases. You will contribute to the patch review process the development and execution of backports test automation and test plans and the creation of automation tools to improve the efficiency flexibility and quality of Red Hats patch delivery to customers. You will provide technical leadership for engineers within the team.

What you will do

• Resolve and address critical issues that have an impact on long-term regional or global business success of Red Hat OpenShift AI
• Work within the Red Hat OpenShift portfolio and assist the delivery of maintenance streams
• Collaborate with developer and QE counterparts and DevOps team across the globe to ensure the development and delivery of fixes meet the schedule requirements and high quality standards expected and required by Red Hat customers
• Diagnose the root cause of failures
• Backport CVE and bug fixes to stable release streams
• Develop maintain and monitor tests and onboard automated tests into a continuous integration workflow
• Become responsible for our product quality continuous integration and delivery respond to security threats

What will you bring

• Proficiency in at least one programming language between Python or Go
• Experience testing applications developed in Go Python or other programming languages.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks in the context of back-end services and web apps (e.g.: PyTest Cypress)
• Understanding of CI/CD practices and experience working with tools like Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI or similar.
• Strong background in Kubernetes OpenShift or other cloud-native technologies.
• Hands on experience in release pipeline preparation & Builds creation

The following will be considered a plus:

• While a Bachelors degree or higher in computer science or a related discipline is valued we prioritize practical experience and technical prowess
• Knowledge of the AI and machine learning landscape including basic MLOps concepts
• Experience with public cloud services (AWS GCE Azure)

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