Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Observability to join our team and drive the design, implementation, and support of enterprise-scale observability platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Splunk, Elasticsearch (ELK), Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Terraform, and Kubernetes, with a solid background in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and cloud technologies.

Required Skills

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or DevOps.
• Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud administration.
• Strong proficiency in Splunk SPL.
• Experience with Elasticsearch (ELK Stack), Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Tempo, and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience implementing distributed tracing, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Kafka and observability pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux environments.
• Strong scripting skills using Python, Go, Ruby, or Bash.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise observability platforms.
• Administer Splunk infrastructure, including Search Head Clusters, Indexers, Heavy Forwarders, and Deployment Servers.
• Build and manage Elasticsearch clusters for large-scale log analytics.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and monitoring solutions using Splunk, Grafana, and Kibana.
• Implement distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry and Grafana Tempo.
• Automate infrastructure deployments using Terraform.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve platform reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to enhance monitoring and operational excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Splunk Certification.
• Experience with Ansible, Consul, CI/CD pipelines, and Service Mesh technologies.
• Experience working in FedRAMP or other regulated environments.