Role: Site Reliability Engineer
Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting
Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: DevOps
UG: Any Graduate
PG: Any Postgraduate
About the Job The Red Hat IT Developer Enablement team is looking for a Platform Engineer (PE) based in India (Pune or Bangalore) to own and operate images.paas Red Hat''s central internal container image registry built on Red Hat Quay. images.paas serves thousands of internal users across Red Hat, providing a secure, self-service registry for container images used in production, CI/CD pipelines, and development workflows. The platform is managed through a custom Kubernetes Operator written in Go and a GitOps-based configuration pipeline running on OpenShift on AWS. You will be the primary PE for this service responsible for its reliability, automation, and evolution. You will work within a small, globally distributed team that values openness, blameless learning, and sustainable operations. At Red Hat, your individual contributions have high visibility and directly impact the developer experience across the company. What Will You Do Own the day-to-day operations of the images.paas Quay registry, ensuring it meets its Service Level Objectives (SLOs) Maintain and extend the images-paas-operator (Go / operator-sdk) that automates Quay organization, repository, and access management Manage the GitOps pipeline that controls registry configuration, permissions, and organizational structure Monitor service health, respond to incidents, and drive blameless postmortems to continuously improve reliability Reduce operational toil through automation if you do something twice, automate it the third time Manage LDAP-based user authentication and access provisioning Participate in an on-call rotation within a geographically distributed team for production support Collaborate with internal stakeholders (platform teams, CI/CD teams, security) to support their registry needs Provide feedback and bug reports to Red Hat Quay product engineering based on real-world operational experience Contribute to capacity planning, disaster recovery procedures, and security compliance (SIA/PIA) What Will You Bring 3+ years of experience operating production services on Kubernetes / OpenShift 2+ years of programming experience in Go Hands-on experience with container registries (Quay, Harbor, Docker Registry, or similar) Experience with GitOps workflows for managing infrastructure or application configuration Solid understanding of Linux systems administration (RHEL/Fedora preferred) Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure Understanding of standard networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/TLS) and authentication protocols (LDAP) Comfort with incident response, on-call responsibilities, and working across time zones Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while keeping the team informed The Following Are Considered a Plus Experience with the Operator SDK or building Kubernetes operators Experience administering Red Hat Quay specifically Familiarity with container image security scanning and vulnerability management Experience with CI/CD pipelines and image build automation Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, alerting) Knowledge of SRE principles SLOs, error budgets, toil measurement Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Contributions to open source projects # LI-CS1