Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era through secure, visible, and insightful technology solutions. The Site Reliability Engineer - Networking will support highly available and secure production environments, design and automate cloud and network infrastructure, monitor reliability, and troubleshoot complex incidents in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
Responsibilities
- Crafting the network architecture for a hybrid cloud design
- Improving agility by automating endpoint network connectivity
- Creating the best connectivity solution by abstracting network functions from hardware
- Developing comprehensive monitoring tools that provide transparency into the performance and reliability of our network infrastructure
- Full-stack troubleshooting of production issues (application, system and network) through to root cause analysis and implementation of preventative measures
- Design, implementation and management of an overlay network to support 1000’s of containers
Skills
- The successful applicant may be performing work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee)
- This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil
- Bachelors + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience
- Can demonstrate experience in designing, deploying and operating mid to large scale enterprise or cloud environments
- Feel comfortable with scripting or coding with languages like Python, Bash, Ruby, Go
- Know your way around *nix systems and have interests that span beyond routers and switches
- Daringly jump into other people's solutions and source code to seek a problem
- Like to Automate all the things!
- You care and empathize with the customer experience and can support an externally facing production environment
- Are passionate about building complex solutions working alongside other engineering teams
- Empathize with coworkers and have a positive influence on others
- Are comfortable using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor to support coding, code reviews, troubleshooting, testing, documentation, and incident investigation
- You have experience with: BGP, OSPF, IPv6, Network Security, DMVPN, MACSec, Grafana, Splunk, advanced Unix/Linux, system administration, scripting/Bash/Ruby/Python, project management experience, AWS/Azure, Docker, K8s, Ansible, REST APIs, TLS or Cloud/ISP/Telco exposure
- Understand agent-based workflows, including reusable skills and MCP integrations, and can critically evaluate AI-generated output for accuracy, security, reliability, and maintainability
- Keywords: Network Engineering, Production Engineering, SRE, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, CCNP, CCIE, JNCP, JNCIE
Benefits
- U.S. employees are offered 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.
- 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 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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