Senior SRE - Observability Lead (Remote)

Vaarida Technologies LLC; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaarida Technologies LLC is hiring a Senior/Lead Site Reliability Engineer Observability. This fully remote role requires 8+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps and hands-on expertise with Splunk Enterprise/Cloud, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Kafka.

You will design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability platforms across cloud environments, delivering scalable telemetry pipelines and dashboards.

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

SRE/DevOps experience

Splunk SPL

Shell scripting / Bash

Python

Go

Ruby

Linux

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Grafana Tempo

Prometheus

Elasticsearch/ELK

Kafka

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Cloud

Terraform and IaC

Consul

Ansible

FedRAMP/regulatory environments

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Cloud

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Grafana Tempo

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Python

Go

Ruby

Bash

AWS

Azure

GCP

Ansible

Consul

Job description

Vaarida Technologies LLC is hiring a Senior/Lead Site Reliability Engineer Observability. This fully remote role requires 8+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps and hands-on expertise with Splunk Enterprise/Cloud, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Kafka.

You will design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability platforms across cloud environments, delivering scalable telemetry pipelines and dashboards.