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Red Hat Principal Security Engineer - Emerging Technologies in Cork, Ireland
The Red Hat Emerging Technologies team within the Office of the CTO is looking for a Principal Software Engineer for security and AI safety related innovation. In this role, you will be involved in the research and productization of new security and AI safety related technologies that will ultimately become part of Red Hat's overall solution portfolio. You'll be responsible for planning, design and prototyping of security projects, working with a variety of stakeholders in open source communities around the world as well as within Red Hat itself.
What you will do
Collaborate cross-functionally to define and document Red Hat's long-term security technology strategy, which is informed by customers and partners and includes a gap analysis at a level of specificity on which solutions and services engineering and operations can take clear actions
Promote alignment on the security technology strategy through working with product management and product engineering to iterate on alignment and promote gaps identified to a close, participating in specific upstream projects and affecting their outcomes, working cross-collaboratively with other engineering organizations and meeting with partners to gather feedback and identify actions that help promote closure
Advance, refine and inform the security technology strategy by incubating engineering projects
Work to increase external visibility of the portfolio view for Red Hat Security by meeting with customers, partners, press and analysts; speak at conferences and seminars, producing and publicizing collateral
Identify upstream communities germane to the success of the Red Hat Security strategy to ensure they have appropriate vitality and level of participation
Work with our engineering, legal, security, communications, product, and recruiting teams to turn security related contributions into powerful stories that demonstrate the strength of open source
Cultivate our open source presence and reputation in security-related open source organizations, standards bodies and more
What you will bring
Extensive experience in enterprise software development with complex system requirements
Leadership experience with globally distributed engineering teams and projects
Experience with security-related engineering and design
Familiarity with tools like OPA Integration with Tekton, Kafka, ArgoCD, and Multi-Cluster, Trusted Execution Environments (Enarx), DevSecOps, and open source secure supply chain
Experience with containers, distributed systems and Kubernetes
Familiarity with open source communities and open source development
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to directly interact with customers and community members
The following are considered a plus
Experience contributing to the Kubernetes project
Experience contributing to projects in Cloud Native Ecosystem
Experience using Red Hat OpenShift
Relationships in prominent open source communities are a plus
Understanding of post-quantum security
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