Senior DNS Platform Engineer

Cisco; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 139,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco's Common Platform Services (CCPS) team seeks a DNS Engineer to design, build, and evolve enterprise DNS platforms covering authoritative and recursive DNS, forwarding, delegation, and service integrations. You will modernize provisioning, configuration management, validation, monitoring, and recovery through infrastructure as code and automation.

Collaborating across software, network, cloud, and security teams, you will improve reliability, performance, and security of DNS services at

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 6+ years or Master’s with 4+ years in software development, systems engineering, or cloud/platform engineering.
• Experience designing, implementing, or operating DNS services, including authoritative and recursive DNS, delegation, forwarding, caching, and DNS record behavior.
• Experience developing infrastructure automation using Python and tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent infrastructure-as-code technologies.
• Experience administering Linux environments and diagnosing issues across DNS, networking, and distributed systems.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools to automate routine tasks, support technical troubleshooting, and improve software or infrastructure engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve enterprise DNS architecture spanning authoritative and recursive DNS.
• Modernize the platform by improving provisioning, configuration management, validation, monitoring, and recovery through infrastructure as code and automation frameworks.
• Strengthen reliability, performance, security, and maintainability of critical DNS services at scale.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving resolution behavior, zone design, DNSSEC, caching, delegation models, and integration dependencies (Tier 3).
• Collaborate with software, network, cloud, and security teams to deliver resilient DNS solutions for new services and platform changes.

Skills

DNS services

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Linux

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in software development/systems engineering/cloud

Master’s degree in software development/systems engineering/cloud

Tools

CoreDNS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Automation frameworks

Job description

Cisco's Common Platform Services (CCPS) team seeks a DNS Engineer to design, build, and evolve enterprise DNS platforms covering authoritative and recursive DNS, forwarding, delegation, and service integrations. You will modernize provisioning, configuration management, validation, monitoring, and recovery through infrastructure as code and automation.

Collaborating across software, network, cloud, and security teams, you will improve reliability, performance, and security of DNS services at