Senior Platform SRE Lead — Kubernetes & Reliability

Devopsroles; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 214,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Stock grants

Job summary

Cisco's Platform Engineering organization is seeking a senior leader to design, implement, and operate Kubernetes platform capabilities across cloud and on-prems environments, supporting mission-critical workloads at scale.

You will drive IaC and GitOps initiatives with Terraform and ArgoCD, mentor engineers, lead incident responses, and partner with security and product teams to advance platform roadmaps and reliability.

Qualifications

• 12+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• 7+ years operating Kubernetes platforms in multi-cluster environments.
• Experience with cloud-native infra across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem/hybrid clouds.
• Experience with Terraform and ArgoCD for IaC and GitOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and optimization of Kubernetes platform capabilities across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Drive IaC and GitOps initiatives to improve reliability, security, and developer productivity.
• Partner with engineering, security, and product teams to execute platform roadmaps and reliability goals.
• Provide technical leadership during incidents, architecture reviews, and platform transformations.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise engineering bar through code/design reviews and automation.

Skills

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

GitOps

SRE practices

Incident management

Automation

Multi-cluster

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

Job description

Cisco's Platform Engineering organization is seeking a senior leader to design, implement, and operate Kubernetes platform capabilities across cloud and on-prems environments, supporting mission-critical workloads at scale.

You will drive IaC and GitOps initiatives with Terraform and ArgoCD, mentor engineers, lead incident responses, and partner with security and product teams to advance platform roadmaps and reliability.