Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer

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

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a senior data/DevOps-focused engineer to design and deploy large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private clouds. You will collaborate with global teams of engineers and SREs to ensure reliability and performance for Webex and collaboration services.

The role emphasizes automation with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, plus guiding data access patterns and migration strategies for cloud-native applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years with distributed databases (Cassandra/OpenSearch/Kafka).
• 5+ years managing AWS infrastructure at scale.
• 5+ years with CI/CD and IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes.
• Python 5+ years supporting live SaaS systems.
• 3+ years leading technical projects with estimation and milestones.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch.
• Automate cloud infra with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes.
• Ensure reliability with backups, patching, incident management.
• Advise teams on data access patterns and cloud migration.

Skills

Distributed data systems

AWS at scale

DevOps CI/CD

Python

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Cisco is seeking a senior data/DevOps-focused engineer to design and deploy large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private clouds. You will collaborate with global teams of engineers and SREs to ensure reliability and performance for Webex and collaboration services.

The role emphasizes automation with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, plus guiding data access patterns and migration strategies for cloud-native applications.