Support for @AMD@twitter.com EPYC Rome has been merged to the Linux #kernel starting with 5.4 series. However, Canonical has also backported basic support for AMD EPYC Rome to older LTS releases to ensure they will work properly on this new CPU.
Interact with end users on technical problems.
Tier 1, 2 and 3 support for #CentOS and related open source products.
Drive resolution of those problems, which include:
Open source software issues.
Questions around open source software usage.
Questions around use and best practices.
Review of the architecture and design where software is implemented.
Conduct professional services and training engagements.
Research, understand, and advocate open source software.
Interact with various open source communities.
Drive early resolution of issues.
Make strategic contributions to the CentOS core and surrounding ecosystem, provide bug fixes ahead of the community where needed
Be a part of the on-call rotation.
Present knowledge via articles, blogs, and conference presentations.
Requirements:
Technical knowledge, skills and expertise in complex infrastructure, web-based software and enterprise software
Strong knowledge of the Linux #kernel and system architecture.
Understanding of software best practices; #SDLC, #SCM and #Agile development principles.
Ability to develop with #C / #C++ in a UNIX environment.
Utilization of common #Linux C/C++ build tools such as #gcc.
Solid understanding of CentOS 6.x and 7.x and included frameworks like #firewalld, #systemd, etc.
Strong #RHEL/CentOS background required
#Debian / #Ubuntu, #SUSE / #openSUSE / #SLES, other distro background a bonus
C, shell scripting, #perl, etc
Virtual Machine experience with #qemu / #kvm, #Azure, #AWS, #VirtualBox, #Vagrant
General experience such as: radius/Kerberos, lda, ipa/idm, monitoring, vpn, containers, centralized systems management, automation (ansible, chef, puppet, etc), version control (git, etc) or security hardening (CIS, STIGS, PCI-DSS, etc)
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
Knowledge of open source packages
Database administration; #postgresql / #mysql / #mariadb experience very desirable
Experience with Linux distro package building (#rpm, #deb, #ipkg, etc) preferred
Existing contributions to the CentOS community a major plus
OTOH it turns out #Genode#OS development is still going strong. In fact, they had been the ones maintaining NOVA since its original authors had abandoned it. They are now focusing on #seL4 and their own custom #kernel.