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Base Salary
$214k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of Kubernetes platform capabilities across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Drive initiatives improving reliability, security, scalability, automation, and developer productivity through Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps.
- Partner with engineering, security, and product teams to execute platform roadmaps and reliability goals.
- Provide technical leadership during major incidents, architecture reviews, platform transformations, and infrastructure investments.
- Mentor senior engineers through hands-on technical leadership, code and design reviews, operational excellence, and automated remediation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- 7+ years of experience operating Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native infrastructure in production, including multi-cluster environments.
- Expertise with AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
- Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale Kubernetes networking architectures, including CNI implementations and service mesh.
- Experience with Terraform and ArgoCD for Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps.
- Experience implementing SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, production readiness reviews, and automated remediation.
- Strong communication, leadership, and cross-organizational influence skills.
- Strong software engineering experience with Go, Python, Ruby, or similar languages used for automation and platform development.
- Preferred qualifications include monolith-to-microservices migration experience, foundational networking knowledge, advanced observability and monitoring experience, and experience reducing toil through automation and self-service platforms.
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 for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, floating holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
- The role is restricted to U.S. citizens working on U.S. soil due to U.S. government requirements.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite 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.