Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is a leading technology company revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect. The Site Reliability Engineer (Linux) role is crucial for ensuring the stability of over 6,000 servers while transitioning to Kubernetes, focusing on OS configuration and automation to enhance operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Automate Linux host lifecycle management, including configuration, patching, and image creation, to ensure consistent and reliable deployments across our hybrid environment
- Migrate Ansible components from our existing monorepo into isolated, purpose-built repositories to improve maintainability and accelerate infrastructure delivery
- Debug complex production issues across OS, performance, and service layers to minimize downtime and enhance the overall stability of our network services
- Design, build, and improve infrastructure tooling that increases engineering velocity and streamlines adoption of best practices
- Partner with security and compliance teams to embed FedRAMP requirements into our infrastructure-as-code, ensuring that secure practices are built into every deployment
- Lead the transition of workloads to Kubernetes clusters by optimizing container base images and host configurations to support our evolving service architecture
- Own the reliability of critical infrastructure end to end, iterating and adapting as necessary to evolving requirements
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
- 5+ years of experience working with Linux in a production environment
- Experience with Python or Ruby for infrastructure automation and scripting
- Experience with Ansible for configuration management at scale
- Experience debugging complex system issues across OS, performance, and service layers
- Ability to work in a hybrid cloud and on-prem environment
- Experience with Kubernetes cluster management and containerization (Docker)
- Knowledge of systems-level languages such as Go or C
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks like FedRAMP or NIST
- Proven ability to lead technical projects from ambiguous requirements to production
- Strong sense of ownership and a proactive approach to identifying and solving systemic reliability issues
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- 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 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
- Annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies
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