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Software Engineer - SRE

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1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize cloud and data infrastructure for high availability, reliability, and scalability.
  • Implement SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, and fault analysis.
  • Collaborate with development, product, customer, and security teams to create secure and scalable solutions and improve operational efficiency through automation.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root cause analyses, conduct postmortem reviews, and optimize performance.
  • Lead architectural vision, technical strategy, and roadmap development while balancing immediate and long-term objectives.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership that promotes engineering and operational excellence.
  • Engage customers and stakeholders, translate use cases and feedback into actionable insights, and influence technical decisions.
  • Build core data platform capabilities and automation and develop infrastructure and processes for enterprise-scale software deployment.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 8–14+ years of related experience.
  • Extensive practical experience with areas including Linux, public cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, networking, security, systems administration, software development, and CI/CD.
  • Hands-on cloud experience, preferably with AWS.
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code skills, ideally with Terraform and EKS or Kubernetes.
  • Experience with Splunk, Prometheus and Alertmanager, Grafana, Thanos, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, and ELK observability tooling.
  • Strong understanding of Unix/Linux systems, the kernel, system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
  • Experience building or managing cloud-based data platforms, infrastructure automation and orchestration, and highly available systems at scale.
  • Ability to write high-quality code in Python, Go, or equivalent languages.
  • Experience architecting software and infrastructure at scale with ownership and accountability.
  • Preferred certifications include CKA, CKAD, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or equivalent cloud and security certifications.
  • Strong communication, presentation, collaboration, prioritization, learning, and stakeholder-influencing skills.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSDockerGoGrafanaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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About Cisco

10,000+ employees

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.

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