Senior Site Reliability Engineer-FedRAMP (FULLY REMOTE)

$174,800 - $240,350/Yr

Splunk

Full-time - Senior

Remote

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Splunk will play a crucial role in managing and improving the reliability and resiliency of SRE-managed services and infrastructure within FedRAMP environments. This position focuses on enabling developers to operate scalable and cost-efficient applications while minimizing operational burdens. The role involves working with a team of engineers to deliver high-quality products and mentoring new engineers to foster their success.

Responsibilities

• Own Splunk Cloud Observability in FedRAMP environments.
• Work across the organization to deliver quality products that delight Splunk's passionate users.
• Collaborate with teams to build a cloud-based environment for massive-scale data processing.
• Mentor new engineers to achieve more than they thought possible.
• Work on reliability projects including HA, Business Continuity Planning, disaster recovery, backup/restore, RTO, RPO.
• Implement chaos engineering practices.
• Ensure application uptime and performance.
• Manage capacity planning and monitoring.
• Establish SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and monitoring dashboards.
• Oversee deployment and operations of large-scale distributed data stores and streaming services.
• Establish design patterns for monitoring and benchmarking.
• Document production run books and guidelines for developers.
• Reduce toil through tooling, runbooks, and automation for production environments.
• Manage incidents and improve MTTD/MTTR for services.
• Optimize cloud costs.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in handling large-scale cloud-native microservices platforms.
• 3+ years of strong hands-on experience deploying, handling, and monitoring large-scale Kubernetes clusters in the public cloud (AWS or GCP).
• Experience with infrastructure automation and scripting using Python and/or Golang.
• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining Java services.
• Strong hands-on experience in monitoring tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.
• Experience with deployment, operations, and performance management of large-scale clusters such as Cassandra, Kafka, Elastic Search, MongoDB, ZooKeeper, Redis.
• Excellent problem-solving, triaging, and debugging skills in large-scale distributed systems.

Nice-to-haves

• AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.
• Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka and/or Apache Cassandra Administrator Associate certifications are preferred.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Google Deployment Manager, Pulumi, Packer, ARM, etc.
• Experience with CI/CD frameworks and Pipeline-as-Code such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Gitlab, Argo, Artifactory, etc.
• Proven skills to effectively work across teams and functions to influence the design, operations, and deployment of highly available software.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Flexible working arrangements
• Incentive compensation
• Equity or long-term cash awards