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Base Salary
$178k - $257k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize cloud and data infrastructure for high availability, reliability, scalability, and enterprise customer needs.
- Implement SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, postmortems, and proactive performance optimization.
- Collaborate with development, product, security, service engineering, customers, and other stakeholders to create secure, scalable solutions and improve operational efficiency through automation.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analyses, and drive continuous improvement.
- Lead architectural vision, technical strategy, roadmaps, infrastructure planning, and deployment processes at enterprise scale.
- Mentor engineers, provide technical leadership, establish engineering and operational standards, and influence technical direction.
- Engage customers and stakeholders to understand use cases and translate feedback into actionable technical insights.
- Use strong programming and systems engineering skills to build core data platform capabilities and infrastructure automation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree plus 12 years of related experience, master’s degree plus 8 years, or PhD plus 5 years.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable, reliable, production-ready solutions.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and infrastructure as code using Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes or EKS, networking, security, and CI/CD.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar programming languages and strong software development fundamentals.
- Preferred experience building or managing cloud-based data platforms, infrastructure automation and orchestration, and highly available systems at scale.
- Preferred experience architecting software and infrastructure at scale, providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and working with cloud and infrastructure security.
- Strong communication, presentation, collaboration, prioritization, ownership, and accountability skills.
- Preferred CKA, CKAD, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or equivalent cloud or security certifications.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible U.S. employees.
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution.
- Paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off depending on employee classification, and sick time.
- Optional paid volunteer days and additional paid time away for critical family or emergency issues.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses subject to company policies.
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.