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Base Salary
$152k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the long-term technical direction for the ACM configuration platform, including architecture, technology investments, and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Lead complex technical initiatives spanning configuration delivery, disaster recovery, fleet management, and platform reliability.
- Establish standards for code quality, system design, observability, and operational excellence.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, pairing, and coaching.
- Own production reliability by providing technical judgment during major incidents and designing systems that reduce operational burden.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree plus 8 years of related experience, or master’s degree plus 6 years, or PhD plus 3 years.
- Experience building and operating large-scale production systems with fluency in Go and/or Python.
- Experience designing resilient, scalable distributed systems in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or GovCloud.
- Experience using configuration and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Puppet, Terraform, or Ansible at scale.
- Experience leading major technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction beyond immediate teams.
- Preferred experience includes production observability, incident management, capacity planning, continuous delivery, Kubernetes, container orchestration, internal platforms, security, compliance, regulated cloud environments, and open-source contributions.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical topics and building alignment across stakeholders.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses subject to company policies.
- Paid holidays, floating holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
- Hybrid work in Denver, Colorado, or Raleigh, North Carolina; remote candidates in the United States may also be considered.
Tech Stack
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.