OpenSearch SRE: Cloud Reliability & Ops (Contract)

Information Consulting Services

Herndon (VA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 190,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Information Consulting Services is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure availability, performance, scalability, and security for cloud-hosted search services built on OpenSearch. You will work on reliability engineering, operations, automation, and continuous improvement for distributed platforms within a globally distributed team.

The role requires deep OpenSearch knowledge, expert Kubernetes operations, and strong Linux administration.

Qualifications

8+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps/cloud operations with distributed systems.
Hands-on experience designing, building, deploying and operating OpenSearch clusters in production.
Expert-level Kubernetes operations, troubleshooting, and service management.
Strong Linux administration (SUSE and Ubuntu) and scripting.
Experience with Git, Concourse pipelines, and cloud monitoring.
Experience with Kafka and ZooKeeper; automation for testing and deployment.

Responsibilities

Provision, build, deploy, monitor, operate, and support cloud services in a global team environment.
Architect and maintain high-performance OpenSearch clusters and platforms from ground up.
Optimize OpenSearch for high availability, resiliency, security, and performance.
Monitor cluster health, indexing throughput, latency, shard allocation, and storage utilization.
Lead incident response, RCA, remediation, and on-call rotation.