Senior Systems Administrator - Community Platform Engineering

Red Hat’s Community Platform Engineering team seeks a senior systems administrator for managing a diverse community infrastructure and services the Fedora (https://pagure.io/projects/fedora-infra/%2A https://gitlab.com/fedora/ https://github.com/fedora-infra/) and CentOS (https://gitlab.com/CentOS/) communities. This position works within a team of systems, development, and design engineers that support free/open source projects in our communities. The Senior Systems Administrator job duties include working with team and community members on existing infrastructure, architecting new infrastructure, deploying/maintaining services, working alongside developers on new and existing services, 

Due to the nature of free/open source software communities and the team being distributed globally, this role requires some flexibility in scheduling work meetings, interactions, and communications.

What you will do

• Work with staff and community members globally in open source project communication channels.

• Project and task planning with the team regularly.

• Install and maintain community participation resources (gitforge, mailing list management, etc..)

• Install and maintain operational resources (monitoring, ansible playbooks, VMs/cloud resources/bare metal machines, logging, etc..)

• Security auditing and response around community infrastructure.

• Build relationships with other community members, internal technology and operational teams

• Triage tickets assigned to the group, resolve, and if necessary, escalate.

• Perform other tasks as requested

What you will bring

• Proven experience actively contributing and/or maintaining free/open source software in open communities.

• Experience working constructively and collaboratively with free/open source software projects.

• Strong experience as a Linux system administrator, system analyst, systems engineer, or software designer/architect where the focus is on infrastructure, resilience, and security.

• Experience with open source collaboration and workflow tools such as git, Matrix/IRC, mailing lists, github, gitlab etc..

• Experience with AWS/Cloud management

• Experience with multiple hardware architectures such as risc-v, aarch64, x86_64, etc..

• Strong experience with Red Hat technologies and established track record with other free/open source software contributions.

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken, excellent communication skills

• Understanding of modern software development, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery, and infrastructure-as-code

• Experience with troubleshooting complex issues, especially in (highly) automated and distributed environments

• Knowledge of OpenShift/k8s deployment and management

Beneficial skills & experience

• Red Hat Certifications, such as RHCSA, RHCE

• Understanding of the concepts of high availability and disaster recovery

• Knowledge of testing automation frameworks and tools

• Proficient development experience with Python, Go and/or C.

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