Cloud Platform Engineering Tech Lead

Cisco Systems; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems seeks a senior platform engineer to define the long-term direction for ACM’s configuration platform, shaping architecture and investments to support thousands of customers across AWS, GCP, Azure, and GovCloud.

You will lead high-impact projects, set standards for code quality and reliability, mentor engineers, and own production reliability through incident response and scalable system design.

Qualifications

• Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years, or PhD + 3 years.
• Experience in building and operating large-scale production systems with Go and/or Python.
• Experience designing resilient, scalable distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, GovCloud).
• Experience with configuration and infrastructure as code tools at scale (Puppet, Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience leading major technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction beyond immediate teams.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and long-term direction for ACM’s configuration platform.
• Lead high-impact projects spanning configuration delivery, disaster recovery, fleet management, and platform reliability.
• Establish standards for code quality, system design, observability, and operational excellence.
• Mentor engineers across levels through code reviews, design feedback, pairing, and coaching.
• Own production reliability and design systems that reduce operational burden.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud: AWS/GCP/Azure

IaC: Puppet

IaC: Terraform

IaC: Ansible

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Puppet

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Cisco Systems seeks a senior platform engineer to define the long-term direction for ACM’s configuration platform, shaping architecture and investments to support thousands of customers across AWS, GCP, Azure, and GovCloud.

You will lead high-impact projects, set standards for code quality and reliability, mentor engineers, and own production reliability through incident response and scalable system design.