Hybrid Senior SRE — Kubernetes, CI/CD & AI Resilience

Cisco Systems, Inc; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and deployment of Splunk Agent Observability's production platforms.

You will automate operations, manage cloud and air-gapped deployments, and partner with engineering teams to deliver secure, resilient systems. In this hybrid role, you’ll work on-site on Tuesdays and Thursdays in NYC or other US locations, collaborating with global teams to improve observability, incident response, and deployment

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform/Cloud/Infrastructure.
• 3+ years operating Kubernetes in production; Helm experience.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD platforms and deployment automation.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Operate and improve Kubernetes-based production infrastructure and deployment systems.
• Own deployments across cloud and air-gapped environments, including installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
• Build and improve deployment observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency through automation and performance optimization.
• Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Tune infrastructure components—including databases and services—to improve performance and resilience.
• Design and develop internal tooling using Python and/or Go.
• Debug complex production issues spanning Kubernetes, networking, storage, and application layers.
• Manage infrastructure using Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Collaborate with software engineers and customers to design secure, scalable, and reliable deployment architectures.

Skills

SRE disciplines

Kubernetes operations

CI/CD automation

Python/Go scripting

Cloud/Infrastructure engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Helm

Terraform

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and deployment of Splunk Agent Observability's production platforms.

You will automate operations, manage cloud and air-gapped deployments, and partner with engineering teams to deliver secure, resilient systems. In this hybrid role, you’ll work on-site on Tuesdays and Thursdays in NYC or other US locations, collaborating with global teams to improve observability, incident response, and deployment