Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Splunk
Optum (company site, opens in a new tab)NoidaOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 30–45 LPA
Posted 1d ago
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About This Role
- Enhance and manage monitoring, instrumentation, and alerting for OptumRx services using Splunk and Datadog, aligned with defined SLOs and operational objectives.
- Support and analyze priority incidents, perform root cause analysis, identify trends, and recommend improvements to service stability, performance, and architecture.
- Build automation and self-healing capabilities, participate in rotational on-call support, and communicate updates to cross-functional teams and key stakeholders.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Technology or Engineering (B Tech or B. Engineering) mandatory.
- Proven experience applying Site Reliability Engineering principles to improve service reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.
- Hands-on expertise in Splunk Enterprise/Splunk Cloud including log analytics, dashboard development, alert engineering, data onboarding, and observability.
- Proficiency in Python automation and scripting (Bash, PowerShell) and experience with incident management and root cause analysis processes.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in designing and implementing monitoring and alerting strategies based on SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and SLAs to drive reliability improvements.
- Skilled at collaborating with cross-functional teams across geographies to define service objectives, gather requirements, and recommend monitoring and automation enhancements.
- Strong analytical and communication skills demonstrated by ability to analyze incident data for trends, present updates effectively, and participate in incident response and on-call support.