Tech Ops-Site Reliability Engineer - 30264

Splunk Inc; Connecticut; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a TechOps Engineer responsible for optimizing Splunk's Cloud infrastructure in regulated environments like FedRAMP. This role emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and technical expertise in cloud systems. Candidates should have a passion for automation, security, and managing distributed systems, with potential for growth and certification within the first year.

Qualifications

• Experience in regulated environments like FISMA or FedRAMP.
• Experience with Azure cloud environment.
• Strong documentation skills and ability to resolve operational issues efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Own Splunk Cloud in Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS FedRAMP environments.
• Lead and mentor engineering teams building cloud-based solutions.
• Attain Splunk Cloud Certified Architect within the first 12 months.

Skills

Performance monitoring

Anomaly detection

Incident analysis

Automation

Best practices in security

Education

AZ-900 or AZ-104 certifications

Tools

Splunk

VictorOps

Nagios

Gitlab

Puppet

Jenkins

Job description

Join us as we pursue our disruptive 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’re committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most significantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

Role:

Splunk is looking for a TechOps Engineer with the ability to provide day-to-day technical expertise for our Splunk Cloud Azure TechOps team and the organization. This position is responsible for making key technical decisions that help drive our operational infrastructure to deliver Splunk’s SaaS customer-facing systems. As a TechOps Engineer, you will interface with cross-functional leaders on strategic initiatives, partner with senior engineers to solve complex problems, and mentor the operational team while interacting with senior leadership to propose solutions. We seek someone who can bring a fresh approach to problems and help us build a top-notch Splunk Cloud TechOps team.

This is a remote role based in the USA, Plano, TX, supporting FedRAMP Moderate / High environments.

Responsibilities:

1. Own Splunk Cloud in Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS FedRAMP environments.
2. Collaborate across the organization to deliver high-quality products.
3. Lead and mentor engineering teams building cloud-based, large-scale data processing environments.
4. Help new engineers succeed and foster team success.
5. Attain Splunk Cloud Certified Architect within the first 12 months.

Qualifications:

• Experience or interest in regulated environments like FISMA or FedRAMP.
• Experience with Azure cloud environment.
• Experience working remotely in a team setting.
• Passion for building and managing distributed systems at scale.
• Focus on automation and best practices in security, performance, and disaster recovery.
• Skills in performance monitoring, anomaly detection, and incident analysis.
• Experience with cloud monitoring tools such as Splunk, VictorOps, Nagios.
• Strong documentation skills and ability to resolve operational issues efficiently.
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and related certifications (AZ-900 or AZ-104 preferred).
• Proven ability to influence across teams and manage customer-facing issues.
• Willingness to work nights, weekends, and on-call as needed.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with cloud environment monitoring using Splunk.
• Proficiency in programming languages like Go or Python, especially for automating Linux tasks.
• Experience in large-scale distributed cloud service development and architecture.
• Familiarity with Gitlab, Puppet, Jenkins, clustering, web applications, and YAML.
• Support experience in FedRAMP Moderate environments.