Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Hyderabad, India - Splunk Inc

Description

Join us as we pursue our ground-breaking vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we are committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most significantly to each other's success.Theprovides full-fidelity monitoring and fixing across infrastructure, applications, and user interfaces, in real-time and at any scale, to help our customers keep their services reliable, innovate faster, and deliver great customer experiences. Infrastructure Software Engineers at Splunk are cloud-native systems engineers who use infrastructure-as-code, microservices, automation, and efficient design to build, operate, and scale our products.RoleYou will help us run one of the largest and most sophisticated cloud-scale, bigdata, and microservices platforms in the world. You will be responsible for enabling developers to operate highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient applications with low operational burden by handling and improving the reliability and resiliency of SRE-managed services and infrastructure. You thrive on automation, infrastructure-as-code, reliability engineering, and getting rid of tedious, manual tasks.You will:

Design new services, tools, and monitoring to be implemented by the entire team.

Analyze the tradeoffs of the proposed design and make recommendations based on these tradeoffs.

Mentor new engineers to achieve more than they thought possible. You enjoy making other teams successful and are fulfilled through the success of others.

Work on reliability projects, including:

HA, Business Continuity Planning, disaster recovery, backup/restore, RTO, RPO

Chaos engineering

Application uptime and performance

Capacity management & planning

SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and monitoring dashboards

Responsible for deployment and operations of large-scale distributed data stores and streaming services

Establishing design patterns for monitoring and benchmarking

Establishing and documenting production run books and guidelines for developers

Tooling, toil reduction, runbooks & automation to handle production environments

Incident management and improving MTTD/MTTR for services

Cloud cost optimization

QualificationsMust-Have:

5+ years of SRE experience in handling large-scale cloud-native microservices platforms.

2+ years of strong hands-on experience deploying, handling, and monitoring large-scale Kubernetes clusters in the public cloud specifically AWS or GCP

Experience with infrastructure automation and scripting using Python and/or bash scripting.

Strong hands-on experience in monitoring tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc. in order to build observability for large-scale microservices deployments.

Excellent problem-solving, triaging, and debugging skills in large-scale distributed systems

Preferred:

AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.

Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka and/or Apache Cassandra Administrator Associate certifications are preferred

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Google Deployment Manager, Pulumi, Packer, ARM, etc.

Experience with deployment and operations of large scale clusters for Cassandra, Kafka, Elastic Search, MongoDB, ZooKeeper, Redis, etc.

Experience with CI/CD frameworks and Pipeline-as-Code such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Gitlab, Argo, Artifactory, etc.

Proven skills to effectively work across teams and functions to influence the design, operations, and deployment of highly available software.

Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.