We are hiring for Site Reliability Engineer OpenSearch to support our client
Company Name: - JTSi (Johnson Technology Systems, Inc.)
Role: Site Reliability Engineer OpenSearch
Location : Fully remote position
Possible convert to hire after 1 year
Citizenship: US Person
DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT AND TASKS: Candidates that have OpenSearch deployment ON KUBERNETES will be considered
Site Reliability Engineer OpenSearch
We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer OpenSearch to help ensure the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and Quality of Service (QoS) for mission-critical cloud services. This role will focus on the reliability, operations, automation, and continuous improvement of distributed search and analytics platforms built on OpenSearch, while working in a diverse, globally distributed team environment.
The ideal candidate brings deep experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, cloud operations, automation, observability, and distributed systems, with proven hands-on expertise architecting, building, deploying, operating, and optimizing high-performance OpenSearch clusters and platforms from the ground up in production environments.
General Responsibilities
Provision, build, deploy, monitor, operate, and support cloud services in a globally distributed team environment
Architect, build, deploy, and maintainhigh-performance OpenSearch clusters and platforms from the ground up
Administer and optimize OpenSearch environments forhigh availability, resiliency, scalability, security, and performance
Monitor and troubleshoot cluster health, node performance, indexing throughput, search latency, shard allocation, replication, and storage utilization
Analyze and resolve operational issues, platform instability, and production incidents across infrastructure, platform, and application layers
Conduct incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation to drive continuous improvement
Maintain the integrity and security of servers, systems, and OpenSearch platform infrastructure
Support platform lifecycle activities including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, hotfixes, backup, restore, and disaster recovery
Develop and maintain monitoring policies, alerting standards, operational runbooks, and support procedures
Automate testing, deployment, scaling, recovery, and operational workflows for OpenSearch and related cloud services
Ensure proper resource allocation and capacity planning across compute, memory, storage, and network resources
Partner with product development and engineering teams to design and enhance service reliability and operational readiness
Develop and implement testing strategies and document results for platform changes and operational improvements
Support log ingestion, index management, retention policies, lifecycle management, and search performance tuning
Work in a diverse environment and cross-train with other global team members
Participate in an on-call rotation and support weekend or after-hours operational needs as required
Requirements
Expert withKubernetes, including troubleshooting, operations, management, and configuration of complex Kubernetes services.
Proven hands-on expertisedesigning, building, deploying, supporting, and maintaining OpenSearch clusters and platforms from scratch in production environments
Strong experience withOpenSearch administration, cluster architecture, performance tuning, scaling, upgrades, and troubleshooting
Experience withindex design, shard and replica strategy, cluster sizing, node management, snapshot/restore, backup, and disaster recovery
Strong understanding ofdistributed systems, search platforms, indexing pipelines, query optimization, and high-availability architectures
Expertise withGit
Expertise withConcourse, including setup, management, and troubleshooting of new pipelines
Expertise withLinux, specificallySUSEandUbuntu
Expertise withKafka, Zookeeper, and Big Data technologies
Expert in development of automation for testing, deployment, scalability, and management of cloud services
Expertise with building, implementing, and/or supporting cloud monitoring tools
Expert knowledge ofcloud computing, infrastructure operations, and databases
Expert understanding ofweb services, networking, virtualization, and internet protocols
Ability to multitask and handle various projects, deadlines, and changing priorities
Excellent communication and prioritization skills
Expertise with security fundamentals as they pertain toSaaS multi-tenant application systems
Strong interpersonal, presentation, and customer service skills
Desired Qualifications
Experience with AWS services includingRoute 53, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, ACM, KMS, and VPC
Experience deploying and operatingOpenSearch in AWS-based environments
Experience withCloud Foundry-based environments
Experience withJenkins,Chef, and/orTerraform
Exposure to and understanding of troubleshootingIP networks and application stacks
Experience with observability tools such asPrometheusandGrafana
Experience withlog ingestion pipelines, index lifecycle management, retention strategies, and search platform security controls
Familiarity withcapacity forecasting, performance benchmarking, and resilience testingfor distributed search platforms
Education
BS/BAdegree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related IT discipline preferred
Allowable substitution:An additional four (4) years of experience may be substituted for a BS/BA degree
8+ years of experience
Additional Requirements
Participation in anon-call rotationfor handlingP1 incidentsis required
Flexible schedule which may includeweekend or after-hours work
Ability to work effectively in adiverse, collaborative, and globally distributed team environment
If you are available, interested, planning to make a change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest, please call me seven zero three nine four nine nine one one eight on / If you do respond via e-mail (jinson dot jose at jts usa dot com) please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP with your updated resume.
Established in 2003, JTSi is a Professional IT & Engineering Services provider with years of documented experience in the Information Technology and Engineering services field. JTSi has a proven track record for successfully delivering mission critical Professional services to the Government and the industry. JTSi SAP team delivers solutions to its clients by clearly understanding their core business problems. We deliver quality services at equitable rates and focus on constant improvement in all areas of our operation, austerely complying to the customer s desire. We view our-selves more as a business partner than a mere provider of consulting services. At JTSi customer is always first and partnering is our means to customer satisfaction. We do what we say!
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