Senior Site Reliability Engineer-FedRAMP (FULLY REMOTE)

Splunk; Maryland; Remote; USD 174,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their fully remote team. In this pivotal role, you will manage one of the largest cloud-scale platforms, ensuring high availability and reliability of services. Your expertise in cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, and monitoring tools will be crucial as you lead projects that enhance system performance and resilience. This role offers the opportunity to mentor new engineers and collaborate with a passionate team dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experiences. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan with match

Paid time off

Flexible working arrangements

Incentive compensation

Equity or long-term cash awards

Qualifications

• 7+ years in large-scale cloud-native microservices platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/GCP Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong skills in monitoring tools and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Own Splunk Cloud Observability in FedRAMP environments.
• Work on reliability projects and mentor new engineers.
• Handle deployment and operations of large-scale distributed systems.

Skills

Cloud-native microservices platforms

Kubernetes

Python

Golang

Java

Problem-solving

Monitoring tools

Distributed systems debugging

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Master's in Engineering

Tools

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Cassandra

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer-FedRAMP (FULLY REMOTE)

Join us as we pursue our ground-breaking vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we are committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most significantly to each other’s success.

The Splunk Observability Cloud provides full-fidelity monitoring and fixing across infrastructure, applications, and user interfaces, in real-time and at any scale, to help our customers keep their services reliable, innovate faster, and deliver great customer experiences.

Role

You will help us run one of the largest and most sophisticated cloud-scale, big data, and microservices platforms in the world. You will be responsible for enabling developers to operate highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient applications with low operational burden by handling and improving the reliability and resiliency of SRE-managed services and infrastructure.

You will:

1. Own Splunk Cloud Observability in FedRAMP environments.
2. Work across the organization to deliver quality products that delight Splunk's passionate users.
3. Work with teams of tight-knit engineers who are building a state-of-the-art, cloud-based environment for massive-scale data processing.
4. Mentor new engineers to achieve more than they thought possible.

Work on reliability projects, including:

1. HA, Business Continuity Planning, disaster recovery, backup/restore, RTO, RPO
2. Application uptime and performance
3. Capacity management & planning
4. SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and monitoring dashboards
5. Responsible for deployment and operations of large-scale distributed data stores and streaming services
6. Establishing design patterns for monitoring and benchmarking
7. Establishing and documenting production run books and guidelines for developers
8. Tooling, toil reduction, runbooks & automation to handle production environments
9. Incident management and improving MTTD/MTTR for services

Qualifications

Must-Have:

1. 7+ years of experience in handling large-scale cloud-native microservices platforms.
2. 3+ years of strong hands-on experience deploying, handling, and monitoring large-scale Kubernetes clusters in the public cloud specifically AWS or GCP.
3. Experience with infrastructure automation and scripting using Python and/or Golang.
4. Experience developing, deploying and maintaining Java services.
5. Strong hands-on experience in monitoring tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.
6. Experience with deployment, operations, and performance management of one or more of the following large-scale clusters such as Cassandra, Kafka, Elastic Search, MongoDB, ZooKeeper, Redis, etc.
7. Excellent problem-solving, triaging, and debugging skills in large-scale distributed systems.

Preferred:

1. AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.
2. Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka and/or Apache Cassandra Administrator Associate certifications are preferred.
3. Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Google Deployment Manager, Pulumi, Packer, ARM, etc.
4. Experience with CI/CD frameworks and Pipeline-as-Code such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Gitlab, Argo, Artifactory, etc.
5. Proven skills to effectively work across teams and functions to influence the design, operations, and deployment of highly available software.
6. Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Please note: This position supports United States federal, state, and local government agency customers and is subject to certain U.S. citizenship-based restrictions imposed by law, regulation, executive order, government contract, and/or related determination by the U.S. Attorney General.

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer: At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive.

Base Pay Range

Base Pay Range: $174,800.00 - 240,350.00 per year

Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out above, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.

Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off and much more!