principal software engineering Site Reliability Engineer tech_leadership Hybrid · Posted May 14, 2026

About this role

Red Hat is hiring a principal-level Site Reliability Engineer in the software engineering function based in Pune, India (hybrid). The posting calls out experience with Python, Go, AWS, Kubernetes.

Role
Site Reliability Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
principal
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
Pune, India
Work mode
Hybrid
Posted
May 14, 2026
AI Summary
Principal-level SRE supporting Red Hat's hybrid cloud infrastructure for software manufacturing services. Maintains monitoring, automation, and security; responds to outages; defines and meets SLIs/SLOs. Requires expert OpenShift and Linux administration, advanced automation (ArgoCD, Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD platform knowledge.

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Job description

from Red Hat careers

About the Job:

We’re seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with passion for maintaining highly reliable cloud-based services. In this role, you will support Red Hat’s software manufacturing services on our hybrid cloud infrastructure.

You will partner with development, quality engineering and release engineering colleagues to support the health and well-being of the infrastructure hosting Software Production services.

Creating/Maintaining service monitoring, improving automation, upholding security best practices and responding to various service situations will be your daily work.

You will participate in communities of practice to coordinate and influence the design of our hybrid cloud platform. You will be co-responsible for defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the services the team supports, and executing remediation plans if the SLOs are not met. 

In this role, you will be expected to respond in a timely manner during a service outage and participate in learning events to identify improvements that will make our services more resilient. Join us and our passion in helping Red Hat to produce world-class open source software.

What will you do?

  • Be part of a globally distributed team, offering 24x7 support through a service model that leverages different time zones to extend coverage with regular on-call rotations.

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