• Job Description

  Req#: 100736

  About the job

  Red Hat Ecosystem Engineering is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Telco Enablement and Solutions group in Madrid, Spain. In this role you will be responsible for providing technical leadership and contributions to strategic 5G and next generation Telco Service Provider offerings and solutions. You will be a member of a geographically distributed team which engages early and works closely with partners in Red Hat’s partner ecosystem, with peer groups in Ecosystem Engineering, with Red Hat product and sales teams, in open source communities and standards bodies.

  Project activities include storyboarding, planning and building technology solutions, developing and verifying software to promote the key technical value of Red Hat products and solutions, conducting demonstrations to executive leaders, customers and partners.

  To be successful in this role you will need to thrive on designing and delivering positive outcomes to technically challenging problems while embracing and amplifying Red Hat’s core values of freedom, courage, commitment and accountability.

  Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.

  What you will do

  • Collaborate within and across Red Hat teams to identify feature gaps, specify and realize Telco Service Provider features and solutions.
  • Build proof of concepts using Red Hat platforms and partner workloads.
  • Design, develop and verify software in support of strategic partner next-generation offerings.
  • Advocate your work and Red Hat’s position in open source communities and appropriate standards bodies.
  • Provide technical thought leadership within Ecosystem Engineering.
  • Proactively lead your team’s technical contributions and delivery of Telco Enablement projects and Telco Solutions.
  • Work with managers to define and refine processes and work items.
  • Mentor and lead within your team and across the group, fostering continuous improvement in a rapidly changing environment.
  • Contribute to collective success through regular knowledge sharing within and outside the company.
  • Serve as a voice of Red Hat for partnered development activities.

  What you will bring

  • Industry experience of enterprise software development.

  • Proficiency in programming (including Go or Python).

  • Container development, virtualization, cloud computing or cloud-native development, and automation.

  • Flexibility to work with a geographically distributed remote working team.

  • Contributing to open source communities.

  • Proficiency in Linux operation and administration.

  • Experience with Linux system programming.

  • Excellent interpersonal and verbal skills; good written communication skills.

  The following are considered a plus:

  • Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat CoreOS, other Red Hat products and/or industry cloud or virtualization technologies.
  • Knowledge of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
  • Development of Operators for OpenShift or Kubernetes.
  • Distributed system design and development.
  • Networking software development.
  • Experience in software testing or CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience in production Telco or Service Provider environments, either as a network operator or vendor.

  Relevant domain-specific knowledge and experience includes:

  • Involvement in standards bodies
  • NFV (Network Functions Virtualization)
  • SDN (Software Defined Networking)
  • OSS/BSS (Operational Support System / Business Support System)
  • Cloud-native applications and architectures
  • 5G Core
  • 5G RAN

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• About the company

  Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

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