Site Reliability Engineer OpenSearch - Remote
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Job Description
Job Description
- 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineer – OpenSearch 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, DevOps, cloud operations, automation, observability, and distributed systems, with proven hands-on expertise architecting, building, deploying, operating, and optimizing high-performance OpenSearch 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 OpenSearch clusters and platforms from scratch in production environments
- Strong experience with OpenSearch 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, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, ACM, KMS, and VPC
- Experience deploying and operating OpenSearch 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