Senior AI Resilience & Platform Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to build, operate, and continuously improve the reliability and scalability of Splunk Agent Observability's deployment platform and production infrastructure.

This hybrid role requires on-site presence on Tuesdays and Thursdays in San Francisco, with additional locations in San Jose and New York as noted, and a focus on automation, incident response, and secure deployment architectures.

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience with a Bachelor's degree or 4+ yrs with a Masters or 1 year with a PhD, or equivalent related experience; Experience to include at least 4 years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform / Cloud / Infrastructure Engineering, or related fields
• 3+ years' operating Kubernetes in production; experience with Helm
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD platforms and deployment automation
• Experience working with AWS, GCP or similar cloud platforms

Responsibilities

• Operate and improve Kubernetes-based production infrastructure and deployment systems
• Own customer 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

Skills

Kubernetes in production

CI/CD automation

Python/Go scripting

Networking fundamentals

Incident response and debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Masters or PhD preferred

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Cisco is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to build, operate, and continuously improve the reliability and scalability of Splunk Agent Observability's deployment platform and production infrastructure.

This hybrid role requires on-site presence on Tuesdays and Thursdays in San Francisco, with additional locations in San Jose and New York as noted, and a focus on automation, incident response, and secure deployment architectures.