Site Reliability Engineer

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

Position - Senior/Lead Site Reliability Engineer Observability

Location - 100% Remote

Experience - 8+ Years

Type - Full Time

Technology Stack - Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Elasticsearch, ELK, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Distributed Tracing, Kafka, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Python, Go, Ruby, Bash, AWS, Ansible, Consul.

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 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.

Roles & 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.

Nice to have skills

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