1 day ago
Base Salary
$187k - $268k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead feasibility assessment, technical planning, and phased migration of eligible workloads from AWS-hosted Kubernetes clusters to the internal Kubernetes platform.
- Operate and improve specialized Kubernetes workloads, including production readiness, incident response, performance improvements, and operational improvements.
- Solve complex issues spanning applications, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, containers, and infrastructure.
- Improve the scalability, reliability, security, performance, and operability of Kubernetes-hosted services.
- Partner with Node Connectivity, firmware, cloud infrastructure, security, SRE, and product teams to coordinate cross-system changes.
- Design, implement, and maintain production-quality Go software for distributed, concurrent, and networked systems.
- Drive operational readiness through SLIs, SLOs, testing, on-call support, root-cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software, site reliability, or infrastructure engineering experience, including technical leadership of substantial production systems.
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating large distributed services on Kubernetes.
- 5+ years of programming experience in Go or a similar systems programming language.
- Experience with production incident response, performance analysis, Kubernetes reliability practices, observability, automation, and operational readiness.
- Knowledge of Linux and networking concepts including IPv4, IPv6, TCP, routing, DNS, and TLS.
- Sound judgment in architecture, incident response, prioritization, and technical tradeoffs, with the ability to align stakeholders without formal authority.
- Preferred experience operating Kubernetes across AWS, on-premises, or hybrid environments using AWS/EKS, Docker, Kustomize, GitLab CI/CD, or similar deployment systems.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes networking, ingress, load balancing, service discovery, traffic management, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, mutual TLS, PKI, VPNs, tunneling, or network security.
- Preferred experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog, distributed routing, packet processing, performance optimization, or failure testing.
Benefits
- Starting salary range of $186,900.00 to $267,700.00 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution; paid parental leave; short- and long-term disability coverage; and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end holiday shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days, subject to applicable policies.
- Eligibility for annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
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.