Description
Join us as we pursue our groundbreaking 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 others success.
The Splunk Observability Cloud provides fullfidelity monitoring and fixing across infrastructure applications and user interfaces in realtime 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 cloudnative systems engineers who use infrastructureascode microservices automation and efficient design to build operate and scale our products.
About You
First and foremost you have strong troubleshooting and problem resolution skills. You work well under pressure and have strong written and verbal communications skills. You pride yourself in being a selfstarter who leads by example and has experience working in a rapidly changing environment. You also have:
- Minimum of a Bachelors degree in CSE EE CSM or related technical discipline; MS degree desired
- 9 years of Site Reliability DevOps and/or Software Development experience ideally in a growthstage environment
- Experience operating within and supporting complex SaaS production or revenuecritical 24/7 web services environments
- Must have experience developing and operationalizing system installations and upgrades
- Strong Experience with Unix/Linux system administration especially in RedHat Linux (Alma)
- Experience running and administering services in AWS or other cloud platforms (Azure GCP)
- Significant experience with one or more scripting/coding languages ideally with Terraform or Python
- Experience with big data platform engineering
- Experience with scaling and operationalizing distributed data stores file systems and services (Kafka Elasticsearch etc); familiarity with Lamdba architecture a big plus
- Experience with virtualization and containerization platforms (Docker) container orchestration tools (Kubernetes) and aspects of Kubernetes to facilitate ease of delivery (Istio/Helm)
- Availability for occasional oncall afterhours support
About the Role
- Imagine a situation where you have hundreds of engineers build and pushing microservices into a highly available SaaS platform built on a cutting edge technology stack.
- Imagine keeping that platform running and scaling it infinitely across multiple geolocations cloud providers
- Imagine leading a team of stellar DevOps engineers who are highly motivated to not just keep this platform running but are constantly experimenting on how to make it better what new technologies to adopt and how to continue to evolve the platform and roll out the infrastructural modernization without customers not even noticing a glitch
- Imagine a world which is ready to shift left and is on the brink of a major cultural shift to a true DevOps model that world is waiting for YOU. Do you want to be that person If yes lets chat!
Daytoday responsibilities include:
- Helping to build and infrastructure to facilitate rapid service deployments
- Documenting findings and recommendations for improvement
- Responsible helping lead fullstack platform infrastructure projects
- Maintaining and enhancing deployment tools and methodologies; play a lead role in advancing our Infrastructure as code architecture.
- Lead the evaluation and development of our data ingestion pipeline to be deployed as a service
- Creating repeatable efficient and scalable artifact deployment pipelines
- Making recommendations to and interfacing with engineering to ensure 100 application uptime
- Monitor the SaaS environment and work with QA Developers Ops to identify and solve problems
- Ensure that failover mechanisms are in place and are working correctly
- Responding to and resolving technical emergencies
Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science Engineering or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
We value diversity equity and inclusion at Splunk and are an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin ancestry sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation marital status age physical or mental disability or medical condition genetic information veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal state or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.
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Thank you for your interest in Splunk!
Required Experience:
Senior IC