Hybrid DevSecOps SRE for SaaS Platform

Cisco; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco ThousandEyes is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (DevSecOps) in Production Engineering to design and manage large-scale, highly available SaaS platforms in the cloud. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve reliability and security while operating in a hybrid model with two days per week in Cisco engineering hubs.

You will drive automation, implement security in CI/CD, and participate in incident response to ensure optimal performance and resilience of the

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting containerized workloads in production Kubernetes environments.
• Experience diagnosing and administering Linux/Unix systems, including networking and file systems.
• Experience developing automation tooling or backend services using Python or Go.
• Experience integrating automated security scanning tools into CI/CD pipelines (SAST/DAST).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software engineers to optimize architecture for availability, latency and reliability using cloud-native tools.
• Design and implement scalable operations tooling to support platform growth across regions.
• Design, deploy and maintain AWS cloud-native services that are elastic and resilient.
• Participate in and improve our 24x7 incident response and on-call rotation.
• Use and expand CNCF solutions like Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and ArgoCD.
• Automate production operations to provide guardrails and continuous platform operation.
• Develop automation solutions for scalable service and platform operations, including deployment and chaos testing.
• Stay updated on industry best practices for scalability and reliability.
• Identify obstacles hindering operational excellence across engineering teams.
• Standardize solutions to enable repeated success across our microservice-based multi-region platform.
• Play a key role in the ThousandEyes platform with scale testing and multiple environments.
• Manage a rapidly growing infrastructure handling substantial daily data volumes.

Skills

Linux/Unix administration

Automation scripting

Python or Go programming

Security practices in deployment

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling (SAST/DAST)

Container image hardening

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Job description

Cisco ThousandEyes is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (DevSecOps) in Production Engineering to design and manage large-scale, highly available SaaS platforms in the cloud. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve reliability and security while operating in a hybrid model with two days per week in Cisco engineering hubs.

You will drive automation, implement security in CI/CD, and participate in incident response to ensure optimal performance and resilience of the