Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is a technology company focused on simplifying technology for its customers. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a crucial role in architecting the next generation of the developer platform and ensuring that the infrastructure supports innovative engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and platform evolution of critical infrastructure for building, testing, and deploying our cloud applications
- Spearhead the consolidation of disparate legacy tools into a modern, cohesive, and scalable developer platform
- Influence and drive operational excellence within the organization
- Learn and understand the priorities and practices of other engineering teams to design systems that work for them
- Work on cross-functional initiatives within Cloud Engineering and with non-technical stakeholders
- Practice sustainable incident responses (on call rotation) and blameless postmortems
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in STEM and 5+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree in STEM and 3+ years of relevant experience or equivalent related work experience
- 3+ years of professional experience writing production-grade code in Python or Ruby, specifically focused on tooling or automation
- 3+ years of experience managing infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) in environments supporting 500+ nodes or complex, high-frequency CI/CD pipelines
- Have experience with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions
- Experience building and supporting tools for a quickly growing engineering organization (1500+ and growing)
- Experience in a hybrid cloud environment (bare metal, container orchestration, and managed cloud services)
- Background in containerization technologies Docker, Kubernetes
- Familiarity with DORA and SPACE published DevOps measurement metrics
- Deep interest in running highly resilient/scalable systems with an 'owner/operator' mindset
- Proven ability to quickly learn and dive into new or unfamiliar technologies within a diverse toolset
Benefits
- U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 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 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 hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and 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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