Senior AI Resilience SRE - Platform Reliability Lead

Cisco Systems, Inc; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 308,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with Cisco matching

Parental leave

Short/long-term disability

Life insurance

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Cisco seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability, scalability, and automation across cloud and on‑prem deployments. You will own long‑term reliability strategy, drive major infrastructure initiatives, and enforce best practices for deployment automation and production readiness.

You will mentor engineers, define SLOs, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, highly available services across distributed environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in related fields; 6+ years in SRE/Platform/Cloud/Infra engineering, or equivalent.
• 5+ years operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in production.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable distributed systems.
• Experience with AWS, GCP or other public cloud platforms.
• Strong experience designing CI/CD platforms and deployment automation at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Lead the architecture and evolution of deployment platforms supporting cloud and air-gapped customer environments.
• Establish reliability engineering standards, including SLOs, operational readiness, capacity planning, and resiliency reviews.
• Lead major reliability initiatives across Kubernetes, deployment infrastructure, databases, and networking.
• Drive automation to eliminate toil and improve engineering productivity.
• Design and build internal platforms, frameworks, and tooling for reliable operations at scale.
• Lead complex production incident response and drive long-term remediation via root-cause analyses.
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through reviews and guidelines.
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to build secure, scalable deployment architectures.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Observability

Incident management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Cisco seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability, scalability, and automation across cloud and on‑prem deployments. You will own long‑term reliability strategy, drive major infrastructure initiatives, and enforce best practices for deployment automation and production readiness.

You will mentor engineers, define SLOs, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, highly available services across distributed environments.