Your role and responsibilities

- 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)

Required education

Bachelor''s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

- 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

Preferred technical and skilled experience

- 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

Years of Experience: : - 3- 6

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