Lead site reliability engineer

IPolarity LLC

1d • $60 - $65 • Remote

About The Position

Join our Observability team responsible for designing, building, and operating enterprise platforms for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting across large-scale cloud infrastructure. You'll lead initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 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.
• US Citizen or GC Holder Required - FedRAMP Requirement

Nice To Haves

• Splunk certification.
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Ansible, Consul, CI/CD pipelines, and service mesh 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, Search Head 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed