Senior Ansible Community Engineer

Red Hat is looking for a technically savvy human with strong open source credentials to join our team. You will work as a Community Engineer directly engaging with a diverse global community of users developers and maintainers to help sustain and grow the Ansible ecosystem.

Were looking for someone who is passionate about open source has experience with community management and has solid knowledge of Python and Infrastructure as Code technologies. Ansible has a lot of Engineers at our Durham and Raleigh offices in North Carolina though as the team is based on the US East Coast and Europe we do accept remote a pplicants from countries where Red Hat is registered to do business.

What will you do

• Community engagement and support:

  • Actively participate and engage with the Ansible community on the Ansible forum and GitHub .

  • Interact daily to provide support and guidance to members of the Ansible community.

  • Help manage and maintain various code repositories and CI/CD workflows across multiple GitHub organizations.

  • Mentor and promote contributors to maintainer roles.

  • Represent and promote Ansible at meetups and conferences both virtual and in person.

  • Help solve technical issues with community tooling in partnership with other Red Hat engineering teams.

  • Act as an open-source champion inside Ansible Engineering to promote upstream-first development methodology with a focus on quality.

• Release management:

  • Assist with Ansible community package and execution environment releases .

• Technical contributions:

  • Lead or contribute to technical initiatives that grow improve and scale how we empower and work with the Ansible community.

  • Develop tooling review and troubleshoot Python .

  • Develop and release Ansible collections and configure and troubleshoot CI in community GitHub repositories .

• Documentation and communication:

  • Create refine and improve documentation for Ansible users contributors and maintainers .

  • Publish periodic community and partner engineering newsletters .

  • Administer the Ansible Forum managing groups and tags based on community requests.

  • Regularly communicate with project stakeholders including other Red Hat engineering teams community maintainers product managers consultants and senior leadership.

• Working in the Ansible ecosystem:

  • Explore identify and document issues and pain points within the Ansible community. Advocate for the resolution of critical issues and communicate the impact to other Red Hat engineering teams.

  • Help Red Hat teams and the Ansible community work collaboratively to improve the quality of automation content such as playbooks roles and modules.

  • Collaborate with Red Hat partners by maintaining quality checks in the release pipeline for Ansible Galaxy and Automation Hub .

  • Promote good coding practices and assist both the Ansible community and Red Hat strategic partners in the development and testing of automation content.

What you will bring

• Exceptional interpersonal skills: Community thrives on daily this role you must be friendly inclusive and ready to engage with a diverse range of technical professionals. You also need to tolerate a lot of context switching and be a good multi-tasker.

• Strong communication: Excellent written and verbal English language skills.

• Open source experience: Significant contributions to at least one open source project (code documentation promotion or community participation).

• Hands-on experience using Ansible to manage infrastructure or systems .

• Experience writing Ansible playbooks and roles developing modules or releasing collections.

• Python skills: Solid coding experience with Python.

• Comfortable with command-line git workflows: Whether participating in discussions during code review or using GitHub Actions to improve code quality you understand shared success and know how to drive towards an outcome.

• Community-minded: A genuine desire to foster a welcoming and active open source community.

• Proactive and creative: Youre a self-starter who identifies opportunities for improvement and takes initiative.

• Collaborative spirit: While often working independently you value teamwork and contribute to a supportive team environment.

• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source project documentation .

The salary range for this position is $116270.00 - $191840.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

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About Red Hat

Benefits
Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage
Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
Retirement 401(k) with employer match
Paid time off and holidays
Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
Leave benefits including disability paid family medical leave and paid military leave
Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan family planning reimbursement tuition reimbursement transportation expense account employee assistance program and more!

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.

Inclusion at Red Hat
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Required Experience:

Senior IC