Site Reliability Engineer OpenSearch - Remote

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. 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.

• 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