Senior Observability Platform Engineer - Splunk & ELK

Tata Consultancy Services; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in California, San Jose, seeks a senior Site Reliability/Platform Engineer with deep observability expertise to design, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade platforms. You will build and maintain Splunk Enterprise/Splunk Cloud, Elasticsearch clusters, and Grafana dashboards, while scaling monitoring with Tempo/OpenTelemetry and Kafka.

You will automate infrastructure with Terraform, manage Kubernetes-based ecosystems, and collaborate with security/compliance teams to

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, distributed tracing, 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.
• Splunk certification.
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Ansible, Consul, CI/CD pipelines, and servicemesh technologies.
• Experience supporting FedRAMP or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability platforms.
• Build and maintain Splunk Enterprise/Splunk Cloud infrastructure including Indexers, SearchHead 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

Elasticsearch/ELK

Prometheus

Grafana

Grafana Tempo

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Terraform

Python

Go

Ruby

Bash

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure/GCP

Ansible

Consul

CI/CD pipelines

Service mesh technologies

FedRAMP

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Kibana

Grafana

Tempo

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services in California, San Jose, seeks a senior Site Reliability/Platform Engineer with deep observability expertise to design, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade platforms. You will build and maintain Splunk Enterprise/Splunk Cloud, Elasticsearch clusters, and Grafana dashboards, while scaling monitoring with Tempo/OpenTelemetry and Kafka.

You will automate infrastructure with Terraform, manage Kubernetes-based ecosystems, and collaborate with security/compliance teams to