System Engineer 3 (Site Reliability Engineer - Network Observability)

About the role

Join an enterprise Service Health Platforms team as a Site Reliability Engineer managing large-scale network observability systems hosted in Azure. In this role, you will ensure high availability, security compliance, and optimal performance for internal and commercial telemetry platforms that power global network operations.

Responsibilities

• Operate and administer Linux and Windows VMs in Azure to maintain strict security and configuration standards.
• Maintain enterprise network observability platforms, including syslog-ng and trapd, through patching, regular expressions, and capacity planning.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks and CI/CD pipelines using Python, Bash, PowerShell, and Ansible.
• Troubleshoot complex application, network, and OS issues while participating in team on-call rotations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Linux Systems Administration and IT infrastructure operations.
• 3+ years of enterprise experience with Network Engineering and protocols (SNMP, NetFlow, gNMI).
• Hands-on expertise with Syslog-NG platform administration and Azure cloud environments.
• Proven ability to write automation scripts in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing Ansible playbooks for configuration management.
• Familiarity with IBM SevOne Network Performance Manager or Broadcom AppNeta.
• Experience querying datasets using KQL or T-SQL.

Skills

• Ansible
• AI workflows
• Bash
• Broadcom
• Network Systems
• Observability tools
• KQL
• Linux
• Linux Systems Administration
• Linux environments
• Azure
• Azure Cloud Infrastructure
• Windows
• NetFlow
• Network monitoring
• Python
• Query Languages
• Regular expression
• Site Reliability
• Scripting
• SNMP
• Syslog
• High availability
• T-SQL
• PowerShell
• Administration
• Automation
• BCDR
• Capacity planning
• Infrastructure management
• Network Engineering
• Network Performance
• Ensure compliance
• Investigate
• Resource utilization
• Security
• Telemetry
• Traffic patterns
• Windows environments

Pay

$49.96 - 55.00 per hour

Schedule

8am to 5pm

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
• AD&D and life insurance offerings
• Short-term disability
• 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility)

Location: Telecommute
Job type: Contract
Education: Bachelor’s degree