Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Network Observability
BlueprintAbout the role
About Blueprint
Blueprint is a technology solutions firm headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with teams across the United States. We help organizations turn complex challenges into meaningful outcomes by connecting strategy and execution across AI, cloud, data, product development, and emerging technology.
Our culture is built by people who care deeply about doing exceptional work. We set high standards, take ownership, and continually challenge ourselves and one another to be better. We work hard, support each other, and take genuine pride in what we deliver for our clients, partners, and teams.
At Blueprint, you’ll work alongside talented people with different experiences, expertise, and perspectives. You’ll have opportunities to take on meaningful challenges, expand your skills, and see the impact of what you build.
Bring your perspective. Raise the standard. Build what matters.
In This Role
You will support the operation and reliability of enterprise network observability platforms that ingest and analyze network telemetry. You will maintain Linux- and Windows-based systems, primarily supporting Syslog-NG and Trapd, while troubleshooting incidents, performing upgrades and patching, planning system capacity, and improving operational efficiency through automation. You will also partner with network and security engineers to analyze traffic patterns, resource utilization, system performance, and security events in a large-scale enterprise environment.
Responsibilities
- Administer and operate Linux and Windows virtual machines hosted in a cloud environment.
- Maintain compliance with established security, configuration, and operational standards.
- Operate and support network observability platforms, with a primary focus on Syslog-NG and Trapd.
- Plan and execute operating system, application, and security upgrades and patching.
- Investigate automated alerts, customer-reported incidents, and platform performance issues.
- Troubleshoot complex network observability configurations, software applications, and operating systems.
- Create and maintain processing rules using regular expressions.
- Support enterprise network performance and application monitoring platforms.
- Assist network and security engineers with analyzing traffic patterns, network telemetry, and resource utilization.
- Conduct system capacity planning and recommend improvements to support scalability and reliability.
- Automate recurring operational tasks using Bash, PowerShell, or Python.
- Deploy, configure, and manage cloud services with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Implement DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, source control, and infrastructure as code.
- Perform business continuity and disaster recovery failover testing when required.
- Manage assigned projects and program components according to established objectives and timelines.
- Participate in daily stand-ups and collaborate with engineering teams to prioritize and deliver work.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and provide timely incident response.
- Deliver strong compliance, incident-resolution, and project-delivery outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Five to seven years of enterprise experience in systems engineering, network engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related IT infrastructure role.
- At least five years of Linux system administration experience.
- At least three years of network engineering experience.
- At least three years of hands-on Syslog-NG experience.
- Strong understanding of network observability and management technologies, including SNMP, SNMP Traps, NetFlow, and gNMI.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise networking, including routing and switching protocols.
- Hands-on experience with Azure or a comparable cloud platform.
- Experience operating and troubleshooting network monitoring systems in a large enterprise environment.
- Experience with system capacity planning, configuration management, c
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