Cloud Platform Tech Lead — Scale & Reliability (Remote)

Cisco Systems; Lincoln (NE); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Disability & life insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Cisco Systems is seeking a senior engineer to help steer ACM’s configuration platform, delivering multi-site projects across AWS, GCP, Azure, and GovCloud. You will set architecture, drive tradeoffs, and raise the engineering bar through standards and observability.

You will mentor engineers, own production reliability, and collaborate with global teams to deliver resilient infrastructure. This hybrid role supports Denver or Raleigh with nationwide remote candidates.

Qualifications

• Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.
• Fluency in Go and/or Python for building large-scale production systems.
• Experience with distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, GovCloud).
• Experience with configuration/infrastructure as code tools at scale (Puppet, Terraform, Ansible).

Responsibilities

• Set the long-term technical direction for ACM's configuration platform.
• Lead and deliver high-impact projects spanning configuration delivery and platform reliability.
• Establish standards for code quality, observability, and operational excellence.
• Mentor engineers and drive major incidents to reduce operational burden.

Skills

Go

Python

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, GovC

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Puppet

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Job description

Cisco Systems is seeking a senior engineer to help steer ACM’s configuration platform, delivering multi-site projects across AWS, GCP, Azure, and GovCloud. You will set architecture, drive tradeoffs, and raise the engineering bar through standards and observability.

You will mentor engineers, own production reliability, and collaborate with global teams to deliver resilient infrastructure. This hybrid role supports Denver or Raleigh with nationwide remote candidates.