Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is a technology company whose Security Business Group cloud engineering team designs, builds, and operates scalable cloud infrastructure and platforms supporting its products and services. The Cloud Engineering Technical Leader provides technical leadership for complex cloud initiatives, shapes cloud architecture and operations, drives automation and deployment practices, improves production reliability, and mentors engineers across teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and implementation of sophisticated cloud engineering initiatives across multiple teams
- Design and develop scalable cloud architecture and infrastructure with availability, performance, security, and reliability in mind
- Provide domain expertise on application infrastructure, cloud architecture, and platform engineering
- Design and operate public and private cloud infrastructure and management platforms
- Drive infrastructure automation and establish strategies for automating development, deployment, and operational requirements
- Lead deployment strategy and capacity planning across development
- Analyze cloud infrastructure utilization and find opportunities to improve performance and optimize cost
- Work with Product Management, Engineering, Security, and business teams to translate requirements into cloud architecture and infrastructure solutions
- Advise teams and stakeholders on cloud configuration, architecture, and migration strategies
- Apply security standards and procedures to cloud infrastructure, production access, and change management processes
- Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks associated with cloud platforms and production environments
- Drive improvements in the availability, performance, scalability, and stability of systems, services, and products at scale
- Evaluate cloud platforms, technologies, and engineering practices and recommend enhancements based on business and technical requirements
- Communicate technical tradeoffs and collaborate with cross-functional partners to align on architecture, priorities, and outcomes
- Mentor engineers and share cloud engineering, automation, security, and operational guidelines across teams
- Stay ahead of with cloud technologies, industry trends, and emerging engineering practices to help guide technical strategy
Skills
- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master's degree with 6+ years of related experience, or PhD with 3+ years of related experience
- 5 + years experience designing, developing, and implementing cloud-based software, systems, or platform solutions
- Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure for availability, performance, scalability, reliability, and security
- Experience leading the technical design and implementation of sophisticated cloud engineering initiatives across multiple teams
- Experience with infrastructure automation, deployment strategies, capacity planning, or cloud infrastructure optimization
- Experience designing and operating infrastructure across public or private cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar cloud platforms
- Experience with cloud-native technologies, infrastructure as code, containerization, orchestration, and automated deployment practices
- Experience with infrastructure cost analysis, capacity planning, performance optimization, and operating highly available systems at scale
- Familiarity with cloud security best practices, production access controls, change management, and risk mitigation
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentorship and influencing cloud architecture and engineering decisions across Product, Security, Engineering, and business teams
Benefits
- This is a remote position anywhere in the USA.
- U.S. employees are offered medical, dental and vision insurance, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules.
- A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules.
- Paid parental leave, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules.
- Basic life insurance, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules.
- Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
- 1 paid day off for the employee’s birthday.
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown.
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco.
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees.
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, subject to availability and some business limitations.
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on the hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next.
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members.
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
- For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
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