2 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Lead the architecture and evolution of deployment platforms for cloud and air-gapped customer environments.
- Establish SLOs, operational-readiness practices, capacity planning, and resiliency reviews.
- Lead reliability and scalability initiatives involving Kubernetes, deployment infrastructure, databases, and networking.
- Automate operational processes, reduce toil, and improve engineering productivity.
- Design and build internal platforms, frameworks, and tooling for reliable operations at scale.
- Lead production incident response, root-cause analysis, postmortems, 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 engineering, infrastructure, security, and customer-facing teams on secure, scalable deployment architectures.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience 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 experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform or similar tools.
- Experience operating and tuning OLTP/OLAP databases, message queues, and object storage systems at scale.
- Experience with MLOps is preferred.
- Strong understanding of networking, distributed systems, storage, databases, and cloud architecture.
- Experience operating both SaaS and enterprise/on-premise deployments.
- Experience leading incident management, postmortems, and long-term reliability initiatives.
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.