Senior/Lead Site Reliability Engineer with Observability - Remote

Ventures Unlimited Inc is seeking a Senior/Lead Site Reliability Engineer with Observability expertise. The role focuses on designing, deploying, and operating enterprise observability platforms, including Splunk, Elasticsearch, distributed tracing, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, and OpenTelemetry. The engineer will also automate infrastructure, develop monitoring dashboards and alerts, and support regulated environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability platforms
• Build and maintain Splunk Enterprise/Splunk Cloud infrastructure including Indexers, SearchHead 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:

• 8-10 Years of experience required
• 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 servicemesh technologies
• Experience supporting FedRAMP or regulated environments
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Ansible, Consul, CI/CD pipelines, and service mesh technologies