15 hours ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define platform architecture, technical strategy, and multi-release roadmaps and translate operational and product needs into designs and implementation plans.
- Design and evolve Kubernetes capabilities including cluster lifecycle, controllers, reconciliation, custom resources, scheduling, networking, storage, service discovery, and upgrades.
- Lead development of shared platform services for connectivity, identity and access management, distributed data, observability, lifecycle automation, and administration.
- Improve reliability and security through high-availability design, recovery, backup and restore, capacity planning, production debugging, threat modeling, and vulnerability remediation.
- Prepare the platform for AI workloads through workload isolation, resource governance, secure model serving, telemetry, and accelerator support.
- Contribute hands-on development, design and code reviews, automated testing, incident analysis, mentoring, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Requirements
- A related bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of experience building, operating, or extending production Kubernetes platforms.
- Deep Kubernetes knowledge and strong Go and/or Java development experience.
- Proven technical leadership of complex, cross-team initiatives from architecture through production.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, Linux, containers, networking, security, CI/CD, and production troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and agentic engineering workflows.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes operators, controllers, custom platform APIs, distributed databases, messaging, consensus, dynamic-routing technologies, identity and service security in restricted-connectivity or air-gapped environments, and data-intensive or AI-related Kubernetes workloads.
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.