Junior Cloud Reliability Engineer

Cisco

Durham (NC)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 125,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Cisco in Durham, NC is seeking an entry-level Site Reliability Engineer to help maintain platform health and learn modern cloud operations under senior mentors. You will monitor telemetry, assist with incident triage, and contribute to automated runbooks to reduce troubleshooting.

You’ll collaborate with SRE and Product teams to improve observability and participate in a structured on-call rotation. Ideal candidates hold a CS/CE/IT degree, and have basic scripting in Python, Bash or Go, plus a

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
  • Qualifying education and work experience should align with CS/CE/IT disciplines.
  • Basic scripting or programming capability in Python, Bash, Go, or similar language for automation and log parsing.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor telemetry across multi-tenant cloud environments to maintain health and uptime.
  • Assist incident triage and response with senior engineers to resolve service-impacting events promptly.
  • Run and improve automated operational runbooks to reduce repetitive troubleshooting.
  • Contribute to Post-Incident Reviews by documenting timelines and identifying preventive solutions.
  • Collaborate with SRE and Product teams to enhance observability dashboards and health signals.
  • Participate in structured on-call rotation with mentorship to support reliability.

Skills

Python/Bash/Go scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Information Technology

Tools

Docker
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
Terraform
Ansible
Puppet
GitHub Copilot

Job description

Cisco in Durham, NC is seeking an entry-level Site Reliability Engineer to help maintain platform health and learn modern cloud operations under senior mentors. You will monitor telemetry, assist with incident triage, and contribute to automated runbooks to reduce troubleshooting.

You’ll collaborate with SRE and Product teams to improve observability and participate in a structured on-call rotation. Ideal candidates hold a CS/CE/IT degree, and have basic scripting in Python, Bash or Go, plus a

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