Sizing Architect - Cloud Workloads & Tooling

115 Cisco Systems Australia Pty Limited; North Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking aSizing Architect for the Splunk Cloud SAG team to shape sizing frameworks and tooling that map customer workloads to infrastructure. You will impact solutions architecture across Australia, the US, and the UK, ensuring sizing problems do not surface to customers.

You will work on on-call rotations, develop diagnostic tooling in Python, and leverage your SPL and cloud sizing experience to optimize capacity planning and pricing models.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Splunk SPL and platform architecture — indexing, search, distributed deployments.
• Production-level proficiency in Python or similar for tooling and diagnostics.
• Working knowledge of networking, OS internals, and storage/data pipelines for root-cause analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to explain root cause and remediation to engineers and customers.

Responsibilities

• Shape sizing architecture, frameworks, rule-sets, and tooling for mapping workloads to infrastructure.
• Ensure sizing problems do not reach customers; contribute to upstream solution architecture.
• Support high-visibility escalations as needed while focusing on upstream architecture improvements.

Skills

SPL expertise

Python

Networking & OS knowledge

Communication skills

On-call support

Distributed deployments

Education

Bachelor's degree + 5 years

Master's/PhD + 2 years

Tools

Splunk

Python

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Job description

Cisco is seeking aSizing Architect for the Splunk Cloud SAG team to shape sizing frameworks and tooling that map customer workloads to infrastructure. You will impact solutions architecture across Australia, the US, and the UK, ensuring sizing problems do not surface to customers.

You will work on on-call rotations, develop diagnostic tooling in Python, and leverage your SPL and cloud sizing experience to optimize capacity planning and pricing models.