{"id":1215358,"url":"https://alion.io/job/pulsepoint-site-reliability-engineer-big-data-remote-international","title":"Site Reliability Engineer, Big Data (Remote, International)","company":{"id":5916,"name":"PulsePoint","domain":"pulsepoint.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/pulsepoint","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Jobvite","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"inferred_payroll_markers","remote_working_hours":{"label":"UTC-8 – UTC-5","utc_offset_min":-8,"utc_offset_max":-5},"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"ArgoCD","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Hadoop","optional":false},{"name":"PagerDuty","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Puppet","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T08:10:20Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-26","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T17:38:04Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"Description\nWebMD and its affiliates is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, color, religion, sex, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.\nBuild streaming and storage systems at PulsePoint\nPulsePoint processes billions of events daily through Kafka, Hadoop HDFSand Ceph. Our Data Platform team maintains these systems across hybrid infrastructure: bare-metal on-prem, cloud, and the integration between them. You own the lifecycle from architecture through deployment to capacity planning and incident response.\nWhat you'll work on\nKafka architecture, topic design, governance, partition strategy, throughput and latency optimization.\n\nCeph operations, pool design, placement optimization, capacity planning.\n\nOperational automation, reduce manual work, faster incident response, preventive systems.\n\nSQL Server backup and recovery pipelines, basic cluster support.\n\nData team tooling with self-service capabilities and observability.\n\nTechnology\nApache Kafka for messaging layer\n\nHadoop and Ceph as distributed storage layer\n\nSQL Server backup and recovery\n\nTerraform, Ansible, Puppet, ArgoCD for operational automation\n\nPrometheus, Grafana, Icinga and PagerDuty as observability layer\n\nBare-metal servers and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure\n\nWhat matters: understand distributed systems, failure recovery, and operational patterns at scale. Apache Kafka and Ceph expertise is most valuable.\nWho we're looking for\nYou've operated data infrastructure at petabyte scale or billions of events/day. You understand replication failures, consistency tradeoffs, and cost-optimization of large systems. You automate before troubleshooting. You take ownership across system layers, not just one component. You simplify complex systems.\nRequirements:\n5+ years operating distributed systems at scale in production\n\nDeep expertise in Kafka, Ceph, or similar distributed infrastructure\n\nProven ability to design for scale and reliability\n\nExperience mentoring engineers and making technical decisions\n\nWillingness to work 9am-6pm ET U.S. hours\nNice-to-haves:\nMulti-region replication and disaster recovery\n\nCost optimization at infrastructure scale\n\nHybrid on-prem/cloud operations\n\nWhy this role\nThis is not a ticket-driven operational role.\nYou'll help define platform architecture, influence engineering standards and work on infrastructure that supports multiple engineering organizations.\nThe engineer joining this role is expected to become a key technical contributor shaping the future of the platform.\nYou can work fully remotely and get the opportunity to work on large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems challenges.\nHiring process\nWe try to keep the process focused and practical.\nIntroductory conversation (~60m) Learn about your background and discuss the role.\n\nTechnical discussion (~60m) Deep dive into systems engineering, Kubernetes and operational experience.\n\nArchitecture discussion (~60m) Explore platform design, distributed systems and technical decision-making.\n\nLeadership conversation (~30m) Meet engineering leadership and discuss team, strategy and long-term direction.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3298,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Advertising","Pharma Marketing & Medical Communications"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T08:10:20Z"}],"liveness":{"score":85,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.899,"p_room":0.945,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:12","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pulsepoint-site-reliability-engineer-big-data-remote-international","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pulsepoint-site-reliability-engineer-big-data-remote-international.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T00:47:41Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":519,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4481,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}