Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability (FedRAMP IL5)

Cisco; Colorado; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their innovative team. This role involves designing and implementing cloud-native services, enhancing the reliability and performance of large-scale applications, and mentoring junior engineers. You will work on exciting projects that focus on automation, infrastructure-as-code, and improving operational efficiency. If you are passionate about cloud technologies and thrive in a collaborative environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a significant impact in the tech landscape.

Benefits

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan and match

Paid time off

Flexible working arrangement

Qualifications

• 7+ years of SRE experience with large-scale cloud-native platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in AWS or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new services, tools, and monitoring.
• Mentor new engineers and improve reliability of SRE-managed services.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Kubernetes

Python

Bash scripting

Monitoring tools

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Master's in Engineering

Tools

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Terraform

Jenkins

Job description

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. Infrastructure Software Engineers at Splunk are cloud-native systems engineers who use infrastructure-as-code, microservices, automation, and efficient design to build, operate, and scale our products.

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 thrive on automation, infrastructure-as-code, reliability engineering, and getting rid of tedious, manual tasks.

You will:

1. Design new services, tools, and monitoring to be implemented by the entire team.
2. Analyze the tradeoffs of the proposed design and make recommendations based on these tradeoffs.
3. Mentor new engineers to achieve more than they thought possible. You enjoy making other teams successful and are fulfilled through the success of others.

Work on reliability projects, including:

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

Qualifications

Must-Have:

1. 7+ years of SRE 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 bash scripting.
4. Strong hands-on experience in monitoring tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc. in order to build observability for large-scale microservices deployments.
5. 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.
6. Excellent problem-solving, triaging, and debugging skills in large-scale distributed systems
7. Candidate must be a US citizen and must reside on US soil

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. Experience handling cloud infrastructure and operations in strict security, compliance, and regulatory environments such as FedRAMP.
7. Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Note:

Base Pay Range

SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range: $[“Hiring Range: Non-Sales US1 Base Pay OR Sales US1 OTE”] per year

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts
Base Pay Range: $[“Hiring Range: Non-Sales US2 Base Pay OR Sales US OTE”] per year

All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.
Base Pay Range: $[“Hiring Range: Non-Sales US3 Base Pay”] 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! Learn more about our next-level benefits at https://splunkbenefits.com.