Job ID 180906-Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Position : Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Location : Remote

Client : Cisco

Rate : 80/hr

Job ID : 180906

Job Summary :

You'll lead initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

Key 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.

Required 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. Preferred Qualifications

• Splunk certification.

• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Ansible, Consul, CI/CD pipelines, and service mesh technologies.

•Experience supporting FedRAMP or regulated environments.