Red Hat Off Campus Drive 2026 : Associate Software/Maintenance Engineer Trainee
he Red Hat Off Campus Drive 2026 is officially inviting applications for the Associate Software/Maintenance Engineer Trainee role. This is a rare opportunity for 2025 batch graduates to work on cutting-edge enterprise solutions like Java, JEE, Linux, Kubernetes, and Cloud Computing.
Red Hat Off Campus Drive Overview :
Job Title : Trainee – Associate Software Engineer, Maintenance Engineer
Job Location : Pune
Salary : High in Industry
Experience : Freshers
Qualification : BE/B.Tech/BSc/BCA/MCAME/M.Tech
Batch : 2025 Passouts
Job Description :
Associate Software Engineer Trainee –
A Red Hat Trainee codes, tests, and debugs features for internal Red Hat tools and software products using Python/Golang, working with mentors and cross-functional teams (QE, Engineering, Design) in an open-source culture, focusing on quality, automation, and learning new technologies. They’ll write tests, participate in code reviews, and help build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in an inclusive environment.
What will you do?
- Development: Implement features, fix bugs, and write clean, maintainable code
- Testing & Quality: Develop unit/integration tests, contribute to automation, and help ensure product quality
- Collaboration: Work with mentors, senior engineers, QE, Product, Documentation, and open-source communities
- Automation: Build and maintain automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines
- Platform Infrastructure – Kubernetes/OpenShift and/or Linux fundamentals (Storage, Networking, etc). Strong understanding in at least one of the above
- Learning: Learn new technologies (AI/ML, Containers, Cloud) and Red Hat’s open-source approach
What will you bring?
- Must have graduated within the last year (2025 batch) with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, in the computer science or IT or AI/ ML
- Knowledge in programming knowledge in Python, Golang (or similar), Javascript, JS Frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue
- Knowledge in MySQL (or Postgres), MongoDB
- Familiarity with Linux, containers, CI/CD is helpful
- Willing to work in open, collaborative, inclusive, focused on customer experience and innovation
- Familarity with Agile (Jira),Sonarqube, code reviews, debugging tools, logging & observability tools
- Red Hat Certifications like RHCSA, RHCE, OpenShift (DO180, DO280) will be considered plus
Red Hat is offering an apprenticeship opportunity for fresh graduates with strong Java and JEE skills to join the Global Support Services (GSS) team as Middleware Engineer Apprentices, supporting Red Hat’s enterprise middleware product suite.
Trainee – Associate Software Maintenance Engineer
What will you do?
- Perform basic investigation and troubleshooting of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform product and additional layered products to find resolutions for technical issues
- Gather information for each bug and provide analysis to fully understand the issue
- Propose and discuss fixes or workarounds and provide advice to educate customers
- Collaborate with engineering, product management, and support management teams to prioritize customer requests
- Incorporate your findings to Red Hat’s knowledge base
- Support Red Hat’s global customers on technical issues through phone, chat, or remote access tools
What will you bring?
- Must have graduated within the last year (2025) with a bachelor’s degree in engineering, technology (computer science or IT), science, or computer applications, or a master’s degree in computer applications or marketing and communications
- Very clear and effective English communications skills (Verbal & Written)
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate courteously and present ideas in a user-friendly way and work in a collaborative environment
- Self-motivated and comfortable working within a team
- Must have strong troubleshooting/debugging skills and a passion for problem solving and investigation
- An ability and willingness to learn new open source middleware technologies
- A solid understanding of core Java programming language, its API’s & popular Java EE(JSP, Servlet) frameworks is mandatory
- Good knowledge on one or more JEE/Application Server technologies such as-
- JSP, Servlet , JMS, Web Services, JDBC, Datasources, Connection Pool, JCA, JTA, Hibernate, JSF will be given preference.
- Practical hands-on with HTML, CSS, Javascript would be an advantage
How To Apply For Red Hat Off Campus:
The interested and eligible graduates register for the same position on following Red Hat careers portal link.
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