Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability & Kubernetes

Cisco Systems; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Cisco Systems in Nashville is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate enterprise observability platforms across large-scale cloud infrastructure.

You will lead efforts to improve visibility, reduce incident detection and resolution time, and participate in on-call rotations. Focus areas include Splunk, Elasticsearch, Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and related telemetry pipelines.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of related experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps.
• Experience administering Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud in production with SPL dashboards.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating ELK-based platforms with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Kafka.
• IaC experience using Terraform; strong Linux and networking knowledge; production operations.
• Programming or scripting in Python, Go, Ruby, Bash or similar with on-call incident troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability platforms.
• Build and maintain Splunk infrastructure and integrations.
• Deploy and operate large-scale Elasticsearch clusters for log analytics.
• Design, deploy, and support distributed tracing platforms using Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry.
• Develop telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces.
• Define instrumentation standards and data retention policies.
• Scale monitoring systems including Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Tempo and OpenTelemetry.
• Create dashboards and alerts using Splunk SPL, Grafana, Kibana, Tempo.
• Participate in capacity planning and production readiness reviews.
• Troubleshoot complex distributed systems and lead incident response.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Kubernetes

Terraform

Splunk

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Python/Go scripting

On-call incident response

Education

Master's degree in a related field

PhD + 1 year experience

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Cloud

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Grafana

Tempo

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Cisco Systems in Nashville is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate enterprise observability platforms across large-scale cloud infrastructure.

You will lead efforts to improve visibility, reduce incident detection and resolution time, and participate in on-call rotations. Focus areas include Splunk, Elasticsearch, Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and related telemetry pipelines.