ole: Senior/Lead Site Reliability Engineer – Observability
Location: Remote (USA)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Visa Type: U.S. Citizen (Must be eligible to obtain U.S. Security Clearance)
✅ Must-Have Qualifications:
✔ 7+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or DevOps
✔ Strong hands-on experience administering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud
✔ Strong expertise in Splunk SPL for log analysis, dashboards, alerts, and reporting
✔ Experience with Elasticsearch, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Distributed Tracing, and Kafka
✔ Experience designing and implementing modern observability platforms using metrics, logs, and traces
✔ Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
✔ Proficiency in Python, Go, Ruby, or Bash for automation and platform engineering
✔ Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes environments
✔ Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms
✔ Experience with Ansible, Consul, CI/CD pipelines, and Service Mesh technologies
✔ Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise-scale observability platforms
✔ Experience managing Splunk infrastructure, including Indexers, Search Head Clusters, Heavy Forwarders, and Deployment Servers
✔ Experience deploying and managing large-scale Elasticsearch clusters for centralized logging and analytics
✔ Experience implementing Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing
✔ Experience building end-to-end tracing pipelines, instrumentation standards, and trace retention strategies
✔ Experience scaling Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry monitoring platforms
✔ Experience developing dashboards, alerts, analytics, and trace visualizations using Splunk SPL, Grafana, Kibana, and Tempo
✔ Experience automating infrastructure deployments using Terraform and configuration management tools
✔ Experience supporting FedRAMP or other highly regulated environments
✔ Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and communication skills
✔ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (preferred)
⭐ Nice-to-Have Skills:
✔ Splunk Certification
✔ Experience with Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Ansible, Consul, CI/CD pipelines, and Service Mesh technologies
✔ Experience supporting FedRAMP High or regulated government environments