7 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, maintain, and optimize secure container base images and platform components across Kubernetes and OpenStack.
- Lead container vulnerability management, including CVE identification, severity evaluation, patching, and security-fix validation.
- Build Python, Docker, and CI/CD automation to scan, validate, and test container images throughout their lifecycles.
- Debug container runtime, Linux networking, storage, resource management, and orchestration issues in distributed multi-tenant environments.
- Use GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex to accelerate development, scripting, and debugging.
- Partner with engineering, QA, security, and infrastructure teams to establish secure-by-default standards and document release readiness.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Software Engineering.
- Production experience building, packaging, and operating containerized services with Docker or Podman and Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with container image scanning, CVE triage, patch validation, and image lifecycle management.
- Strong Python programming skills for automation, custom scripts, and test suites.
- Solid Linux troubleshooting experience across container runtimes, networking, storage, and resource management.
- Experience integrating container builds, security scans, and automated checks into CI/CD release pipelines.
- Daily experience using AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot or OpenAI Codex.
- Preferred experience with OpenStack, Trivy, Grype, Clair, software supply-chain security, SBOM generation, Cosign/Sigstore image signing, provenance, Helm, Terraform, or Ansible.
- Relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, Red Hat, Linux Foundation, or Cloud Security are preferred.
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.