Lead SRE - Go & Kubernetes Platform Migration

Cisco; United States; Remote; USD 187,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Technical Lead for a Kubernetes Site Reliability Engineering role within the Cloud Network Platform Engineering team. The initial focus is migrating workloads from AWS-hosted Kubernetes to an internal data-center-based platform, then delivering ongoing production reliability and platform improvements.

The role requires deep Kubernetes experience, Go programming, Linux networking, and strong leadership across teams to drive phased migration and steady-state operations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software, site reliability, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating large distributed services on Kubernetes.
• 5+ years of programming experience in Go or a similar systems programming language.
• Experience supporting production services through incident response, solving, performance analysis, Kubernetes reliability practices, observability, automation, and operational readiness.
• Understanding of Linux and networking concepts, including IPv4/IPv6, TCP, routing, DNS, and TLS; sound judgment in architecture, incident response, prioritization, and technical tradeoffs; and the ability to align stakeholders across teams without relying on formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead the feasibility assessment, technical planning, and phased migration of eligible workloads from AWS-hosted Kubernetes clusters to the internal Kubernetes platform, establishing technical direction and staged delivery plans.
• Support the operation and reliability of specialized Kubernetes workloads with non-standard load-balancing, networking, and traffic requirements.
• Continue supporting the application after migration, including production readiness, incident response, performance and operational improvements.
• Solve complex issues across applications, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, containers, and infrastructure; improve the scalability, reliability, security, performance, and operability of Kubernetes-hosted services.
• Partner with the Node Connectivity, firmware, cloud infrastructure, security, SRE, and product teams to prioritize support and coordinate cross-system changes; contribute to broader Kubernetes SRE and platform reliability initiatives as priorities evolve.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Linux

Networking

Incident response

Observability

Distributed systems

Leadership

Tools

Docker

GitLab CI/CD

Kustomize

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Datadog

Job description

Cisco is seeking a Technical Lead for a Kubernetes Site Reliability Engineering role within the Cloud Network Platform Engineering team. The initial focus is migrating workloads from AWS-hosted Kubernetes to an internal data-center-based platform, then delivering ongoing production reliability and platform improvements.

The role requires deep Kubernetes experience, Go programming, Linux networking, and strong leadership across teams to drive phased migration and steady-state operations.