Senior Cloud Data Engineer – Distributed Systems & Big Data

Devopsroles; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco's Collaboration Business Unit is seeking a distributed data engineer to design and deploy resilient, large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private cloud environments. You will automate infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, ensuring reliability and performance while collaborating with software engineers, SREs, and product teams.

You will guide application teams on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies,

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree and 5+ years hands on experience with distributed DBs such as Cassandra, OpenSearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL, or Redis.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private cloud environments.
• Automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
• Optimize high-throughput systems for scale and performance.
• Strengthen reliability through automated backups, security patching, and incident management.

Skills

Distributed databases

AWS at scale

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Tools

CassandraDB

OpenSearch

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

AWS

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Python

Job description

Cisco's Collaboration Business Unit is seeking a distributed data engineer to design and deploy resilient, large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private cloud environments. You will automate infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, ensuring reliability and performance while collaborating with software engineers, SREs, and product teams.

You will guide application teams on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies,