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SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER

JOB DESCRIPTION

Join us as we pursue our disruptive 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’re committed to our work, customers, having fun and most significantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The TechOps team is looking for leaders to help pave the way for maintaining, contributing to, improving upon and documenting the next generation of our large scale Cloud offering. At your core must be an insatiable appetite for technology, a deep passion for learning and a love for collaboration in an open and fun environment.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Individuals on the TechOps team will be cross collaborating with multiple teams to:

Test features in our SplunkCloud offering.
Develop and update documentation around configuration and infrastructural changes.
Executing configuration and infrastructural changes on customer cloud environments.
Leading customer related incidents in troubleshooting the SplunkCloud platform.
Develop/update automation tools.

YOU SHOULD APPLY IF:

You have operational experience at scale. You have had hands-on roles that deal with operating systems (particularly Linux) and networking. You have worked with cloud technologies (particularly AWS). Your previous job titles might be something close to systems admin, network engineer or devops engineer.
You're passionate about your work. Our customers are passionate about Splunk and we want the same from our engineers. You should enjoy actively being responsible for your work and be excited about your projects.
You have experience in incident related participation/management.
You love large complex systems. Experience in working on distributed systems or a passion for finding edge cases that appear at scale. You are interested in how to bring something from a small one off task to how to implement it across several thousand machines at once.

REQUIREMENTS:

Must acquire the SplunkCloud Architect Certification within the first 2 years of employment.
2 - 3 years Linux experience.
Basic to intermediate experience programming in one of the following languages (Python or GO).
Must be able to work nights and weekends.
Must be able to work on-call.
Eligible to support a FedRAMP High environment (US only).

PREFERED SKILLS:

Splunk administration.
Experience working with Puppet.
Experience working with Jenkins.
Experience working with GCP or AWS.
Powershell.
Experience with Microsoft Azure is a plus.

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

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