Senior Software Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Galway; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. CSS is building a new tools team to improve observability, reliability and lifecycle automation across our modern platforms.

You will collaborate with a distributed team to evolve our World, modernize legacy tools and deliver tenant-facing functionality. This role emphasizes Docker, OpenStack/OpenShift and CI/CD in a cloud-enabled environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software or platform engineering with ops focus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and mature tools for lifecycle automation, observability and operability.

Skills

7+ years experience

Cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP/OpenAI

CI/CD/DevOps

Linux/Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT or related field

Tools

Docker

OpenStack/OpenShift

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Come Join Cisco Software Solutions

Cisco Software Solutions (CSS) is the software development arm of Cisco's Collaboration platform organization (CCPS). We develop and maintain the platforms and related tools required for our products and the people who operate them to shine.

Our World is a mix of old and new - a new unified platform to replace our various legacy platforms, old tools at all points in lifecycle, new tools to differentiate and enhance our platform offering. It is messy in places, sometimes because parts are so new, sometimes because parts are so old.

We are forming a new team that will help drive consistency, reliability and observability across that World.

You should join!

Who You’ll Work With

We are a distributed and diverse team of developers with an operational mindset, united under the charter to make running virtualized and containerized workloads easy and frictionless for our tenants, and to make the platforms that do that easy and frictionless to manage for our operators.

Who You Are

You are an experienced developer who also is familiar with operations. You have worked on data centre and cloud infrastructure, tools and services at scale. You understand that software is for people, and are here to help.

What You’ll Do

As a member of our new tools team, you’ll work with the rest of the organization to mature our World. That includes everything from lifecycle automation through to observability and other operability improvements, through to unifying or even retiring tools, through to building new tenant or operator facing functionality.

Agentic AI tool use will play a significant part in your day to day.

Minimum Requirements

In the interest of saving everyone time, this role does have some minimum requirements to apply:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

• 7+ years

• 1+ years of experience working with a public or private cloud such as AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack or OpenShift

• 1+ years of experience working with Docker and/or virtualization

• 1+ years of experience working with CI/CD or DevOps systems

Preferred Requirements

This role could be a good fit for you if you bring experience with some of:

• Agentic AI development tools e.g. Claude CLI, Codex, Copilot, OpenCode

• Programming languages such as Python, Golang, Java, Javascript or Typescript

• Lifecycle / deployment tools such as Ansible or Terraform

• Network administration

• Linux administration (especially Linux networking)

• Design, implementation and operation of distributed software

• Infrastructure or service operations at scale

• HTTP, REST, the DOM

• Virtualization technologies

• Containerization technologies e.g. Docker

• Management and operations of the OpenStack or Kubernetes platforms

• Infrastructure management tools such as Intersight and UCS Manager

This role could be a great fit for you if you also bring a growth mindset and the desire to do what's best for your team.

Let's make CSS excellent together.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale, because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.