1 day ago
Base Salary
$139k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, administer, and maintain cloud and vector database architectures, including provisioning, upgrades, operations, backups, security, and performance.
- Build and operate scalable, resilient, high-performing hybrid-cloud database services.
- Support uptime through on-call operations, monitoring, alerting, SLOs, SLAs, incident management, root-cause analysis, remediation, and postmortems.
- Design and test high-availability and disaster-recovery measures across regions and customers.
- Automate repetitive database and operational tasks and build tools for early issue detection.
- Forecast resource capacity and create reports on infrastructure utilization.
- Define reliability and security requirements and collaborate with developers, operations, and security teams.
- Guide and support less experienced colleagues and work with cross-functional partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- At least 7 years of technical expertise with cloud databases and vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or Milvus, and/or at least two of PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
- Experience with AI frameworks such as OpenAI API and LangChain.
- Experience designing, administering, and maintaining vector database or cloud database architecture.
- Experience with CI/CD frameworks and tools such as Git, GitHub, and Jenkins.
- Experience automating database tasks with Python and managing Database Lifecycle Management.
- Preferred: experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
- Preferred: backend experience with Python or other programming languages.
- Preferred: experience building scalable databases on hybrid-cloud infrastructure.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with two days per week onsite at Cisco’s RTP, North Carolina office.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance, subject to plan eligibility.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday day off, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, and family emergency leave.
- Up to 10 paid volunteer days per year.
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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.