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Base Salary
$187k - $268k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Lead architecture and evolution of deployment platforms for cloud, air-gapped, SaaS, and on-premises customer environments.
- Establish SRE standards covering SLOs, operational readiness, capacity planning, observability, and resiliency reviews.
- Lead reliability and scalability initiatives across Kubernetes, deployment infrastructure, databases, and networking.
- Build automation, internal platforms, frameworks, and tooling that reduce operational toil and improve engineering productivity.
- Lead complex production incident response, postmortems, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation.
- Influence platform architecture, deployment strategy, and production readiness across engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards through technical leadership, design reviews, and operational guidelines.
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams on secure, scalable, and reliable deployment architectures.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree, 6+ years with a master’s degree, or 3+ years with a PhD, or equivalent related experience.
- At least 6 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related fields.
- 5+ years operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in production.
- Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or other public cloud platforms.
- Strong experience designing CI/CD platforms and deployment automation at scale.
- Expertise in observability, monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and performance engineering.
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go.
- Deep Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or a similar tool.
- Experience with MLOps, networking, distributed systems, storage, databases, cloud architecture, and both SaaS and enterprise/on-prem deployments is preferred.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and experience leading incident management, postmortems, and long-term reliability initiatives.
Benefits
- Hybrid work requiring on-site attendance Tuesdays and Thursdays; California employees work Tuesdays in San Francisco and Thursdays in San Jose, while NYC employees work both days in the NYC office.
- Base salary range is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with Cisco matching contributions, 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 leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
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.