3 days ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with application teams and infrastructure providers to understand workload requirements, hypervisor constraints, and platform performance signals.
- Own implementation of a defined Hypershield feature set or workstream and translate architectural priorities into requirements, success metrics, and execution plans.
- Design and build dynamic scalability and hardened security capabilities with Engineering, Security, and Data teams.
- Coordinate cross-functional dependencies, track risks, resolve blockers, and support delivery across engineering and infrastructure teams.
- Support platform readiness through technical documentation, customer escalation resolution, health monitoring, and post-deployment architectural improvements.
- Use AI tools responsibly for software development, code analysis, and prototyping, while sharing engineering best practices and design patterns.
Requirements
- At least 9 years of experience building software systems in one or more programming languages such as Go or Python.
- Technical leadership experience in a software engineering environment.
- Experience with Agile development.
- Bachelor's degree with 11+ years of related experience, master's degree with 9+ years, PhD with 4+ years, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- In lieu of a degree, at least 10 years of relevant professional experience.
- Proficiency in algorithms, systems, databases, performance engineering, and security architecture.
- Experience with large-scale event processing, systems programming, distributed systems, and security architecture.
- Experience with Kubernetes, including Kubernetes Cluster API, Gateway APIs, and Operators.
- Experience deploying solutions for AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud architectures.
- Ability to architect, design, analyze, and brainstorm customer-facing product improvements.
Categories
About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.