Senior Software Engineer - OpenShift Virtualization Performance

About the Job:

The Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering org is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in the OpenShift Virtualization (OCPv) Performance and Scale team. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, an included feature of Red Hat OpenShift, provides a modern platform for organizations to run and deploy their new and existing virtual machine (VM) workloads. The solution allows for easy migration and management of traditional virtual machines onto a trusted, consistent, and comprehensive hybrid cloud application platform. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for providing comprehensive storage performance and scalability assessments of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (OCPv). Our goal is to make OCPv the platform of choice for Red Hat’s enterprise customers for leveraging virtualization technologies. You will help us achieve such goals through targeted improvements in performance and scalability of the OCPv platform. This role needs an engineer that thinks creatively, adapts to rapid change, and has the willingness to learn and apply new technologies. You will be joining a vibrant open source culture, and helping promote performance and innovation in this Red Hat engineering team.

The broader mission of the Performance and Scale team is to establish performance and scale leadership of the Red Hat product and cloud services portfolio. The scope includes component level, system and solution analysis and targeted enhancements. The team collaborates with engineering, product management, product marketing and customer support as well as Red Hat’s hardware and software ecosystem partners.

What will you do?

• Formulate test plans, and carry out performance and scalability benchmarks against various storage components/features of the OCPv platform to characterize performance, drive product performance improvements, and detect performance regressions through data analysis and visualization

• Develop tools and automation to aid the performance benchmarking work

• Collaborate with other engineering teams to resolve performance issues

• Triage, debug, and solve customer/partner cases related to virtualization storage performance and scale

• Publish results, conclusions, recommendations and best practices via internal test reports, presentations, external blogs and official documentation to support our partners and customers. 

• Participate in internal and external conferences about your work and results

What will you bring?

• Performance benchmarking, data capture, data analysis, and data

• Experience with storage systems and protocols (NAS, SAN, NFS, iSCSI, RBD, etc)

• Experience with testing windows technologies like MsSql, Win Desktop / Citrix / VDI, .Net etc.

• Experience with container technologies (podman, Kubernetes)

• Experience with systems performance engineering and metrics collection and analysis tools such as iostat, vmstat, sar, perf, pcp, prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch

• Programming experience in Python 

• Experience working with the Linux operating system

• Excellent written and verbal language skills in English

The following are considered as a plus:

• 5+ years of relevant experience

• Experience of working with virtualization technologies such as VMware

• Familiarity with storage APIs (snapshot, clone, provision, attach), Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

• Experience of working with Ansible automation platform

• Knowledge of performance observability/profiling tools like eBPF, Flame Graphs

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related fields

• Experience of Git or similar version control system

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