OpenSearch SRE

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer – OpenSearch
Location-Type: 100% Remote
Start Date Is: September 21st
Duration: 12 months (Contract-to-Hire Potential)
Compensation Range: $70/hr - $80/hr W2
Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision
Not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Job Description:
Build, deploy, maintain, and optimize high-performance OpenSearch/Elasticsearch environments on Kubernetes supporting mission-critical cloud services.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, deploy, and maintain OpenSearch/Elasticsearch clusters on Kubernetes
• Monitor cluster health, node performance, indexing throughput, search latency, shard allocation, replication, and storage
• Troubleshoot production issues across infrastructure, platform, and application layers
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation
• Handle platform installations, upgrades, patching, backup/restore, and disaster recovery
• Automate testing, deployment, scaling, recovery, and operational workflows
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Support capacity planning across compute, memory, storage, and network resources
• Manage log ingestion, index management, retention policies, and search performance
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and operational runbooks
• Participate in an on-call rotation and occasional weekend/after-hours releases

Minimum Requirements:

• 8 years of SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related experience
• Expert-level Kubernetes experience in complex production environments
• Hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining OpenSearch or Elasticsearch clusters on Kubernetes in production
• Strong OpenSearch/Elasticsearch cluster administration, architecture, performance tuning, scaling, upgrades, and troubleshooting
• Experience with index design, shard/replica strategy, cluster sizing, snapshot/restore, and disaster recovery
• Strong Linux experience
• Experience with Concourse CI/CD pipelines
• Kafka and ZooKeeper experience
• Strong Git and automation/scripting experience
• Experience supporting distributed, highly available production systems
• Hands-on production incident response, RCA, and on-call experience
• Experience working within highly secure, complex enterprise environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS experience (EC2, S3, Route 53, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, RDS)
• Cloud Foundry / PCF experience
• Terraform, Jenkins, and/or Chef
• Prometheus and Grafana
• Log ingestion and index lifecycle/retention management
• Capacity forecasting, performance benchmarking, and resilience testing
• SaaS / multi-tenant security experience