Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is a technology company developing infrastructure and security solutions for organizations in the AI era. The Technical Leader, Site Reliability Engineer will lead the design and operation of large-scale Kubernetes platforms, improve reliability and developer productivity, partner across engineering and security teams, and provide technical leadership and mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our Kubernetes platform capabilities across cloud and on-premises environments, supporting mission-critical workloads at scale
- Drive technical initiatives that improve reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity for hundreds of engineering teams using Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps
- Partner with engineering, security, and product teams to execute platform roadmaps and deliver on company-critical reliability goals
- Provide technical leadership during major incidents, architecture reviews, platform transformations, and strategic infrastructure investments
- Mentor senior engineers and help raise the engineering bar through hands-on technical leadership, code/design reviews, operational excellence, and automated remediation
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) and 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments, with a proven track record of leading cross-organizational platform initiatives
- * 7+ years of experience operating Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native infrastructure in production (including multi-cluster environments) and expertise in cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem or hybrid clouds
- * Prior experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting networking architectures for large-scale Kubernetes platforms, including CNI implementations and service mesh
- * Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps technologies, specifically utilizing Terraform and ArgoCD
- * Experience implementing SRE practices, including SLOs/SLIs, incident management, production readiness reviews, and automated remediation
- * Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to effectively influence engineers, architects, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders
- * Strong software engineering experience with Go, Python, ruby, or similar programming languages used for automation and platform development
- * Experience with migrating monolithic applications to a microservices architecture
- * Knowledge of foundational networking concepts (e.g., switching, routing, Wi-Fi, IoT)
- * Advanced knowledge of observability tools and implementing comprehensive monitoring strategies for distributed systems
- * Experience driving toil reduction through advanced automation and self-service developer platforms
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- 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
- 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
- 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 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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