Red Hat

Red Hat’s Performance and Scale Engineering team is seeking a passionate and driven DevOps Engineer to join our small, innovative team focused on developing automation and managing large-scale R&D environments. This role is a unique hybrid of DevOps engineering, cloud cost optimization, and developer experience enhancement across multi-cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud. You’ll split your time between hands-on development and advanced systems/network administration to support performance testing and validation of Red Hat and partner technologies at scale. A key part of your responsibilities will involve active Python development on open-source infrastructure automation tools such as QUADS and Badfish.

This role also involves a strong focus on Cloud FinOps and Cloud Operations—you will analyze cloud usage patterns, identify cost-saving opportunities, and implement automation and best practices to drive efficiency and reduce operational expenses across Red Hat’s hybrid cloud infrastructure.

What you will do

• Administer and automate large-scale, dynamic R&D lab infrastructure using Python and open-source tools like QUADS and Badfish and contribute to their upstream development.
• Develop, maintain, and contribute to automation frameworks for server and network provisioning, improving lab efficiency and scalability.
• Monitor and analyze multi-cloud usage (AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud) using the cloud-governance framework to implement cost-optimization strategies, including rightsizing, resource tagging, and automated cleanup.
• Create and maintain tooling to prune unused cloud resources and build dashboards for real-time visibility into usage, spend, and efficiency metrics.

What you will bring

• 2+ years of experience as a software developer, software engineer, or similar role
• Strong proficiency in the Python programming language, familiarity with frameworks like Flask and SQLAlchemy is a plus
• Expertise in using Git for version control
• Experience with Linux administration and a solid understanding of the Linux operating system
• Cloud operations experience using at least one of the Cloud infrastructures AWS, GCP, Azure & IBM Cloud and FinOps principles, including cost optimization strategies, tagging, cleanup, reporting and strong troubleshooting and collaboration skills
• Fluent English written and verbal communication skills

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience in front-end development, with expertise in React or similar frameworks.
• Proven background managing large-scale infrastructure and cloud environments with tools like OpenShift/Kubernetes, Podam/Docker, Terraform, Jenkins/ProwCI and Foreman.

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

Inclusion at Red Hat

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