Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – ELK Expert | Platform Engineering Practice
Location: India (Remote) - Must be available to work in the EST (US/Canada) Time Zone.
Role Summary:
Are you a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep ELK expertise, ready to take ownership of large-scale observability infrastructure?
We're looking for an SRE with 7+ years of experience , including 4+ years specializing in the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) , to join our Platform Engineering Practice .
In this role, you’ll design, manage, and scale ELK clusters ingesting 2–3+ TB/day , enhance reliability across distributed systems, and drive automation within Azure cloud environments.
This is a high-impact engineering opportunity focused on performance, observability, and operational excellence at scale.
Why Join Us - Career Growth: Work alongside industry experts on cutting-edge cloud technologies
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits: We recognize and reward top talent
- Exciting, Impactful Work: Design and build scalable, resilient cloud environments
- Strategic Platform Role: Contribute to the foundation of next-gen observability and reliability infrastructure
What You Will Do - Design and Optimize Cloud Infrastructure: Architect scalable, fault-tolerant systems on Microsoft Azure
- Automate Everything: Use Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub Actions to streamline deployment and configuration
- Ensure Reliability and Performance: Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues using Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor
- Enhance Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices across DevOps workflows
- Collaborate and Innovate: Work closely with engineering, security, and operations teams to drive automation and efficiency
- Manage and scale large ELK clusters handling 2–3+ TB/day log volumes, ensuring high availability and performance
- Optimize ELK architecture: Implement efficient index lifecycle policies, shard strategies, and hot-warm-cold tiered storage
- Build and tune log pipelines: Scale Logstash and Beats pipelines across distributed environments
- Support Kibana observability layers: Create dashboards, visualizations, and custom alerting frameworks (e.g., Watcher, ElastAlert)
What You Bring - 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering
- 4+ years of dedicated, hands-on experience with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Strong experience managing large-scale ELK clusters in production with heavy ingestion (multi-TB/day)
- Deep knowledge of index tuning, shard allocation, ILM policies , and scaling ELK components
- Expertise in GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and scripting
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes, Docker , and cloud-native architectures
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and solve complex operational issues
Education - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
Certifications (Nice to Have) - Microsoft Azure certifications: AZ-104 , AZ-400