Senior Cloud Observability & Reliability Engineer

Cisco; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 149,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability platforms across cloud-native workloads. You will focus on Kubernetes-based platform workloads, Splunk and ELK stacks, tracing with Tempo/OpenTelemetry, and end-to-end telemetry pipelines.

You will participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and capacity planning, collaborating with security, database, network, and application teams to improve reliability and operational

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related field.
• Experience with Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud in production.
• Experience building/operating Elasticsearch/ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, and tracing (Tempo/OpenTelemetry).
• IaC experience with Terraform; knowledge of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and operations.
• Programming/scripting in Python, Go, Bash, or similar; on-call troubleshooting ability.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, operate, and improve enterprise observability platforms.
• Build/maintain Splunk infrastructure and Kibana dashboards.
• Operate Elasticsearch clusters for log analytics and troubleshooting.
• Develop tracing with Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry.
• Create telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces; publish dashboards and alerts.
• Define instrumentation standards, data quality, retention, and observability patterns.
• Scale/optimize monitoring systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Tempo, OpenTelemetry).
• Automate provisioning and upgrades using Terraform and SCM tools.
• Participate in capacity planning, performance tuning, and production readiness reviews.
• Lead or support incident response and root-cause analysis; collaborate across teams.

Skills

SRE best practices

On-call experience

Distributed tracing

Kubernetes

Splunk

Elasticsearch

Grafana/Tempo/OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Terraform

Ansible

AWS/Azure/GCP

Python/Go/Bash

CI/CD

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Splunk

Splunk Cloud

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Grafana

Grafana Tempo

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Azure

GCP

Python

Go

Bash

Job description

Cisco is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability platforms across cloud-native workloads. You will focus on Kubernetes-based platform workloads, Splunk and ELK stacks, tracing with Tempo/OpenTelemetry, and end-to-end telemetry pipelines.

You will participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and capacity planning, collaborating with security, database, network, and application teams to improve reliability and operational