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Base Salary
$187k - $268k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize highly available, reliable, scalable cloud and data infrastructure.
- Implement SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, root cause analysis, and postmortem reviews.
- Collaborate with development, product, customer, and security teams to deliver secure and operationally efficient solutions.
- Lead the team’s architectural vision, technical strategy, roadmap, and infrastructure planning.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive proactive performance and reliability improvements.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance while promoting engineering and operational excellence.
- Engage customers and stakeholders to understand use cases and translate feedback into technical priorities.
- Use programming and systems engineering to build data platform capabilities and automation.
- Develop processes and infrastructure for deploying software components at enterprise scale while enforcing engineering standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of related experience, or master’s degree and 6 years, or PhD and 3 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, including metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar programming languages and strong software development fundamentals.
- Preferred experience architecting, building, and operating highly available cloud infrastructure at scale.
- Preferred experience with cloud, infrastructure, or application security and security best practices.
- Preferred experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and influencing across organizational boundaries.
- Relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or equivalent cloud or security certifications are preferred.
- Strong communication, ownership, accountability, prioritization, and ability to influence diverse teams are preferred.
Benefits
- The posted starting salary range is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- U.S. employees may receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid time off includes holidays, birthday and year-end shutdown days, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
- The application window is expected to close on October 17, 2026.
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.