Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering-FedRAMP (FULLY REMOTE)

Splunk

445d • $203,200 - $279,400 • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering-FedRAMP at Splunk is responsible for leading a team that manages one of the largest cloud-scale, big data, and microservices platforms. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability and resiliency of services and infrastructure while driving initiatives in automation and infrastructure-as-code. The manager will mentor engineers, oversee reliability projects, and collaborate across the organization to deliver high-quality products that enhance customer experiences.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in handling large-scale cloud-native microservices platforms.
• 4+ years of strong hands-on management experience with teams deploying and monitoring large-scale Kubernetes clusters in AWS or GCP.
• Experience in infrastructure automation and scripting using Python and/or Golang.
• Experience managing remote teams.
• Strong hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack for observability in microservices deployments.
• Experience with deployment and operations of large-scale clusters like Cassandra, Kafka, Elastic Search, MongoDB, ZooKeeper, Redis.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with compliance environments such as HIPPA, GovCloud, State Government, Federal Government, SOC2 or FedRAMP.
• AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.
• Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka and/or Apache Cassandra Administrator Associate certifications preferred.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Google Deployment Manager, Pulumi, Packer, ARM.
• Experience with CI/CD frameworks and Pipeline-as-Code such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Gitlab, Argo.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers focused on large scale distributed systems for Splunk Cloud Observability in FedRAMP environments.
• Manage cross-organizational efforts to deliver quality products that meet user needs.
• Mentor and develop teams of engineers building a cloud-based environment for massive-scale data processing.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to recruit and hire top engineering talent for the SRE FedRAMP team.
• Oversee reliability projects including HA, Business Continuity Planning, disaster recovery, and backup/restore.
• Implement chaos engineering practices to enhance system reliability.
• Manage application uptime and performance, including capacity management and planning.
• Establish SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and monitoring dashboards.
• Oversee deployment and operations of large-scale distributed data stores and streaming services.
• Create design patterns for monitoring and benchmarking.
• Document production run books and guidelines for developers.
• Drive tooling, toil reduction, and automation for production environments.
• Manage incident response and improve MTTD/MTTR for services.
• Optimize cloud costs.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with match
• Paid time off
• Flexible working arrangements
• Incentive compensation
• Equity or long-term cash awards

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree