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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, focusing on platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. Proficient in leading complex incident management and driving systemic improvements through technical leadership and collaboration.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Site Reliability EngineeringKubernetes Platform ManagementCloud Architecture (AWS, GCP)Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)CI/CD Platform Design
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Hard Skills
Python ProgrammingGo ProgrammingCapacity PlanningPerformance EngineeringDistributed Systems DesignDeployment AutomationObservability and MonitoringIncident ManagementOperational ReadinessResiliency Reviews
Soft Skills
Technical LeadershipMentoring EngineersCollaborationRoot Cause AnalysisCommunication
Tools & Technologies
KubernetesTerraformAWSGCPMLOps
Industry Keywords
Operational ExcellenceScalabilityCloud EnvironmentsSaaS DeploymentsOn-Prem Deployments
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonTerraformGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence
- Lead the architecture and evolution of deployment platforms supporting cloud and air-gapped customer environments
- Establish reliability engineering standards, including SLOs, operational readiness, capacity planning, and resiliency reviews
- Lead reliability and scalability initiatives across Kubernetes, deployment infrastructure, databases, and networking
- Drive automation to eliminate operational toil and improve engineering productivity
- Design and build internal platforms, frameworks, and tooling for reliable operations at scale
- Lead complex production incident response and drive systemic improvements through root cause analysis and long-term remediation
- Partner with engineering leadership on platform architecture, deployment strategy, and production readiness
- Mentor engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, and operational guidelines
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to build secure, scalable, and highly reliable cloud and on-prem deployment architectures
Requirements
What you’ll need- 8+ years’ experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 6+ years with a Master’s degree, or 3+ years with a PhD, or equivalent related experience
- At least 6 years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform, Cloud, Infrastructure Engineering, or related fields
- 5+ years operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in production
- Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or other public cloud platforms
- Strong experience designing CI/CD platforms and deployment automation at scale
- Expertise in observability, monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and performance engineering
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go
- Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform
- Experience with MLOps preferred
- Strong understanding of networking, distributed systems, storage, databases, and cloud architecture
- Experience operating both SaaS and enterprise/on-prem deployments
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple engineering teams
- Experience leading incident management, postmortems, and long-term reliability initiatives
Benefits
Comp & perks- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- Paid birthday day off
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid personal wellness days
- 16 days of paid vacation for non-exempt employees
- Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st
- Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco’s policies
- Incentive compensation for sales roles, subject to applicable Cisco plans