About the Job :

The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform team is looking for an Associate Software Engineer to join us in Bangalore, India. In this role, you will work closely with a group of talented engineers helping to improve efficiency and drive results through your contributions. The ideal candidate is friendly, collaborative, and passionate about working with others to achieve success.The job’s focus will be on expanding our enterprise Ansible offering through seamless integration with other configuration management and automation tooling.  Through developing and maintaining the suite of projects Ansible offers as part of the Ansible Automation Platform’s content management arm, you will play a key role in helping us develop new features that allow our applications to be used in new ways, as well as helping to deliver these new tools for Ansible content creators and users.  You will work closely with engineers across the Ansible organization to deliver features that can be used across our projects.

What will you do?

Design, develop and test new backend features for Ansible Automation Platform

Troubleshoot bugs and regressions, working closely with Quality Engineers to deliver working and feature-complete solutions

Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling

Perform software updates, peer code reviews, testing, and CVE analysis

Help mentor and learn from other engineers in a highly-collaborative team environment, as well as participate in peer code reviews

Regularly participate in the team’s Agile scrum process, demos and check-ins with Product Management and other stakeholders to align on use-cases and plan new initiatives

What will you bring?

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, related technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience

6 Months+ experience with software development in Python, Django and Django Rest Framework

Solid object-oriented software development skills

Ability to learn container and cloud technologies

Familiarity with various deployment models, including cloud, virtualization, and containers

Familiarity with GitHub or similar version control system

Familiarity with Python unit and integration testing with tools such as pytest

Familiarity with Linux

Familiarity with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL

Familiarity with utilizing container management platforms and development environments like Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Docker/Docker Compose

Familiarity with CI/CD systems like Jenkins and GitHub Actions

Familiarity with other configuration management and infrastructure as code tooling such as Hashicorp Terraform

Passion for open source technologies; previous experience with open source communities and development is a plus

Good communications skills, and experience working directly with and presenting to stakeholders

An aptitude for jumping in to help unblock, mentor and learn from others