What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Observability (FedRAMP) position at Splunk?
Description
Role
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.
You will work on infrastructure projects, including:
- Adopting new cloud-native frameworks and services
- Automating cloud provider infrastructure via Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm
- Developing code for tools and automation to reduce manual tasks and reduce human error
- Establishing and documenting run books and guidelines for using the multi-cloud infrastructure and microservices platform.
- Improve the resiliency of multi-cloud microservices platform
- Networking, routing, and load balancing
- Security vulnerability remediation and patching automation
- Automating deployment of our services in new provider zones/regions
- Designing and productionizing access tiers to provide appropriate permissions across roles
Qualifications
Must-Have:
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of solid hands-on cloud infrastructure experience on public cloud platforms specifically AWS or GCP.
- 2 years of strong hands-on experience deploying, managing, and monitoring large-scale Kubernetes clusters in the public cloud
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or Helm.
- Experience with infrastructure automation and scripting using Python and/or bash scripting.
- Knowledge of microservices fundamentals including Service Mesh using Istio, service discovery, deployment strategies, monitoring, scheduling, and load balancing
- Excellent problem-solving, triaging, and debugging skills in large-scale distributed systems
- Candidate must be a US citizen or a permanent resident and must reside on US soil
Preferred:
- AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.
- CKA and HashiCorp-certified Terraform Associate certifications preferred
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Google Deployment Manager, Packer, Pulumi, ARM, etc.
- Experience with developing infrastructure or platform services using GoLang or Python.
- Experience with CI/CD frameworks and Pipeline-as-Code such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Gitlab, Argo, Artifactory, etc.
- Exposure to monitoring tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc. in order to build observability for large-scale microservice deployments.
- Proven skills to effectively work across teams and functions to influence the design, operations, and deployment of highly available software.
- Experience handling cloud infrastructure and operations in strict security, compliance, and regulatory environments such as FedRAMP.
Note:
Base Pay Range
SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range: $146,400.00 - 201,300.00 per year
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts
Base Pay Range: $131,760.00 - 181,170.00 per year
All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.
Base Pay Range: $117,120.00 - 161,040.00 per year
Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out above, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.
Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off and much more! Learn more about our next-level benefits at https://splunkbenefits.com.
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!
Salary : $117,120 - $161,040
