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Software Engineering Tech Lead (SRE + AI)

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21 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Define the technical roadmap and architecture for AI-assisted observability, automated incident response, and self-healing cloud infrastructure.
  • Design and build production-grade AI agents, MCP tool integrations, and deterministic evaluation pipelines.
  • Architect telemetry ingestion and correlation across logs, metrics, OpenTelemetry traces, change events, and runbooks.
  • Develop anomaly detection and Human-in-the-Loop remediation workflows with safety, security, and quality guardrails.
  • Define SLIs and SLOs, manage error budgets, and lead deep-dive post-incident reviews.
  • Mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and align global development and operations teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree plus 8 years of related experience, Master’s degree plus 6 years, or PhD plus 3 years in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Proven experience as a Technical Lead or Lead SRE/Software Engineer delivering distributed, highly available SaaS platforms at scale.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or C++, with experience designing microservices, APIs, and production automation.
  • Deep experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration in large-scale multicluster environments.
  • Experience with SRE practices including SLI/SLO design, observability, incident management, and automated root-cause analysis.
  • Preferred experience building LLM pipelines, AI agents, MCP servers or clients, RAG architectures, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Preferred experience with observability platforms, public clouds, Terraform, GitOps or CI/CD, responsible AI guardrails, streaming, and data platforms.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSAzureC++DockerElasticsearchGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJenkinsKubernetesPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonRedisSplunkTerraform

Categories

AI ApplicationsSite Reliability
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Cisco is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era. For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, enhance productivity and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains committed to creating a more connected and inclusive future for all.

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