Sr Software Engineer – Open Search

HME is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to own and operate our OpenSearch-based Observability Platform. This role is responsible for running a highly available, secure, and scalable OpenSearch platform on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), acting as the DevOps and SRE owner and enabling application teams to onboard telemetry using Open Telemetry.

What you will do in the position:

• Own DevOps and SRE responsibilities for the OpenSearch observability platform.
• Design, deploy, and operate OpenSearch clusters on Kubernetes with focus on high availability, scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
• Manage cluster sizing, shard strategy, index lifecycle management, retention, and performance tuning.
• Lead upgrades, capacity planning, and zero / minimal-downtime operations.
• Collaborate with application teams to integrate Open Telemetry-based logs, metrics, and traces into OpenSearch.
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for OpenSearch and underlying infrastructure.
• Own platform security including authentication, authorization, TLS, and secrets management.
• Troubleshoot production issues and automate operational workflows using IaC and CI/CD.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, and operational runbooks.

What you will need to succeed in this position:

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles.
• Hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch in production.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and Kubernetes (AKS preferred).
• Experience with Azure cloud services and observability platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Open Telemetry and telemetry pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and security best practices.
• Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, Helm) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of the ELK stack is a plus
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Bachelors degree in computer science or a related field.

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