Senior AI Reliability Engineer

Cisco; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 282,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with Cisco matching

Paid parental leave

Paid holidays and vacation

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to architect, operate, and evolve the Splunk Agent Observability deployment platform. You will manage cloud and air-gapped environments, automate operations, and partner with engineering to deliver reliable, secure systems.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, and programming with Python/Go across hybrid on-site/off-site environments. It requires extensive SRE experience and cloud proficiency.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree or 4+ years with a Masters or 1 year with a PhD, or equivalent; at least 4 years in SRE/Platform/Cloud/Infra Engineering
• 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 efficiency through automation and performance optimization
• Participate in production incident response, RCA, and reliability improvements
• Tune databases and services to improve performance and resilience
• Design and develop internal tooling using Python and/or Go
• Debug production issues across Kubernetes, networking, storage, and application layers
• Manage infrastructure using Terraform or similar IaC tools
• Collaborate with engineers and customers to design secure, scalable deployment architectures

Skills

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD

Python

Go

Terraform

AWS/GCP

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree OR 4+ yrs with a Masters OR 1 year with a PhD

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

Cisco is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to architect, operate, and evolve the Splunk Agent Observability deployment platform. You will manage cloud and air-gapped environments, automate operations, and partner with engineering to deliver reliable, secure systems.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, and programming with Python/Go across hybrid on-site/off-site environments. It requires extensive SRE experience and cloud proficiency.