Senior DNS & Cloud Platform Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Clegg (NC); On-site; USD 139,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. seeks a DNS Engineer to join our team, focusing on DNS engineering, automation, and platform improvements across enterprise DNS services.

You will design, implement, and operate authoritative and recursive DNS solutions, and collaborate across software, network, cloud, and security teams to deliver resilient DNS platforms. The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, automation frameworks, and ongoing optimization of provisioning, validation, monitoring, and recovery processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree with 4+ years in software/cloud/dev/sys engineering.
• Experience designing, implementing, or operating DNS services (authoritative/recursive, delegation, forwarding, caching).
• Experience with infrastructure automation using Python and IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform).
• Experience administering Linux environments and diagnosing DNS, networking, and distributed systems issues.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools to automate routine tasks and improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve enterprise DNS architecture across authoritative/recursive DNS.
• Modernize provisioning, configuration management, validation, monitoring, and recovery via IaC and automation frameworks.
• Troubleshoot complex DNS issues related to resolution, DNSSEC, caching, and delegation models.
• Collaborate with software, network, cloud, and security teams to deliver resilient DNS solutions for new services.

Skills

DNS design/ops

Python automation

Linux admin

AI-assisted tooling

Cloud knowledge

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in relevant field

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

CoreDNS

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. seeks a DNS Engineer to join our team, focusing on DNS engineering, automation, and platform improvements across enterprise DNS services.

You will design, implement, and operate authoritative and recursive DNS solutions, and collaborate across software, network, cloud, and security teams to deliver resilient DNS platforms. The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, automation frameworks, and ongoing optimization of provisioning, validation, monitoring, and recovery processes