Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (AI-Driven)

Cisco; Galway; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable cloud-native platform solutions. You will develop Python-based validation frameworks, work with OpenStack and Kubernetes, and drive AI-assisted engineering initiatives to scale team velocity and reliability.

Join a team focused on quality, stability, and portability, delivering robust platform validations in a collaborative environment with SRE, security, and networking partners.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years of professional software development or cloud/platform engineering.
• Proficiency in Python and scalable framework design.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes/OpenStack and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a Python-based platform test framework and pipelines (OpenStack, Kubernetes, APIs).
• Identify regressions and performance issues; propose remediations.
• Contribute to quality engineering initiatives and solution testing.
• Generate Allure reports; analyze logs and platform behavior.
• Collaborate with SRE, security, networking, and application teams for platform validations.
• Validate releases (Kubernetes/OpenStack/APIs) for functional and non-functional aspects.
• Drive AI-assisted engineering initiatives to scale velocity and automation.

Skills

Python

System Design

Cloud-Native

Observability

Terraform

GitOps

Troubleshooting

AI-Assisted Engineering

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

GitOps

ArgoCD

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Cisco is seeking a senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable cloud-native platform solutions. You will develop Python-based validation frameworks, work with OpenStack and Kubernetes, and drive AI-assisted engineering initiatives to scale team velocity and reliability.

Join a team focused on quality, stability, and portability, delivering robust platform validations in a collaborative environment with SRE, security, and networking partners.