Site Reliability Engineer – OpenSearch - Remote

Site Reliability Engineer – Open Search

10+ years of experience in site reliability engineering to help ensure the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and Quality of Service (QoS) for mission-critical cloud services.

Deep experience in site reliability engineering, Dev Ops, cloud operations, automation, observability, and distributed systems, with proven hands-on expertise architecting, building, deploying, operating, and optimizing high-performance Open Search clusters and platforms from the ground up in production environments.

Expert with Kubernetes, including troubleshooting, operations, management, and configuration of complex Kubernetes services.

Proven hands-on expertise designing, building, deploying, supporting, and maintaining Open Search clusters and platforms from scratch in production environments.

Strong experience with Open Search administration, cluster architecture, performance tuning, scaling, upgrades, and troubleshooting.

Experience with index design, shard and replica strategy, cluster sizing, node management, snapshot/restore, backup, and disaster recovery.

Strong understanding of distributed systems, search platforms, indexing pipelines, query optimization, and high-availability architectures.

Expertise with Git.

Expertise with Concourse, including setup, management, and troubleshooting of new pipelines.

Expertise with Linux, specifically SUSE and Ubuntu.

Expertise with Kafka, Zookeeper, and Big Data technologies.

Expert in development of automation for testing, deployment, scalability, and management of cloud services.

Expertise with building, implementing, and/or supporting cloud monitoring tools.

Expert knowledge of cloud computing, infrastructure operations, and databases.

Expert understanding of web services, networking, virtualization, and internet protocols.

Ability to multitask and handle various projects, deadlines, and changing priorities.

Excellent communication and prioritization skills.

Expertise with security fundamentals as they pertain to SaaS multi-tenant application systems.

Experience with AWS services including Route 53, EC2, S3, Cloud Watch, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, ACM, KMS, and VPC.

Experience deploying and operating Open Search in AWS-based environments.

Experience with Cloud Foundry-based environments.

Experience with Jenkins, Chef, and/or Terraform.

Exposure to and understanding of troubleshooting IP networks and application stacks.

Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Experience with log ingestion pipelines, index lifecycle management, retention strategies, and search platform security controls.