Remote Senior Observability Lead - SRE & Telemetry

Rishi Writes; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rishi Writes is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer – Observability to design, build, and run enterprise observability platforms across a large-scale cloud environment. You will lead initiatives to improve reliability, scalability and operational excellence while working remotely from the United States.

You will own Splunk infrastructure, Elasticsearch clusters, tracing pipelines with Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry, and dashboards with Grafana, Kibana and Tempo.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering or DevOps.
• Hands-on experience administering Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of Splunk SPL.
• Experience with Elasticsearch/ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry and Kafka.
• Experience implementing metrics, logs and traces as part of a modern observability strategy.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Programming experience in Python, Go, Ruby or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and operate enterprise observability platforms.
• Build and maintain Splunk Enterprise/Splunk Cloud infrastructure, including Indexers, Search Head Clusters, Heavy Forwarders and Deployment Servers.
• Deploy and operate large-scale Elasticsearch clusters for log analytics and search.
• Design, deploy and support distributed tracing platforms using Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry.
• Build and maintain end-to-end tracing pipelines, instrumentation standards and trace retention strategies.
• Scale Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Tempo and OpenTelemetry-based monitoring solutions.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, analytics and trace visualizations using Splunk SPL, Grafana, Kibana and Tempo.
• Automate infrastructure using Terraform and configuration management tools.

Skills

Splunk SPL

Terraform

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Docker

CI/CD

AWS

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Cloud

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Grafana

Tempo

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Azure

GCP

Ansible

Consul

Job description

Rishi Writes is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer – Observability to design, build, and run enterprise observability platforms across a large-scale cloud environment. You will lead initiatives to improve reliability, scalability and operational excellence while working remotely from the United States.

You will own Splunk infrastructure, Elasticsearch clusters, tracing pipelines with Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry, and dashboards with Grafana, Kibana and Tempo.