Lead site reliability engineer

IPolarity LLC is a Professional Services firm offering expertise in IT solutions and application development. The Lead Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and operating enterprise platforms for observability across large-scale cloud infrastructure, focusing on reliability and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability platforms
• Build and maintain Splunk Enterprise/Splunk Cloud infrastructure including Indexers, Search Head Clusters, Heavy Forwarders, and Deployment Servers
• Deploy and operate large-scale Elasticsearch clusters for log analytics and search
• Design, deploy, and support distributed tracing platforms using Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry
• Build and maintain end-to-end tracing pipelines, instrumentation standards, and trace retention strategies
• Scale Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry-based monitoring solutions
• Develop dashboards, alerts, analytics, and trace visualizations using Splunk SPL, Grafana, Kibana, and Tempo
• Automate infrastructure using Terraform and configuration management tools

Requirements:

• 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or DevOps
• Hands-on experience administering Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud
• Strong knowledge of Splunk SPL
• Experience with Elasticsearch/ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Tempo, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, and Kafka
• Experience implementing metrics, logs, and traces as part of a modern observability strategy
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Programming experience in Python, Go, Ruby, or Bash
• Splunk certification
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Ansible, Consul, CI/CD pipelines, and service mesh technologies
• Experience supporting FedRAMP or regulated environments