Senior SRE - AI Platform Reliability (Hybrid)

Cisco; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 308,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Vacation + holidays

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to provide technical leadership for the reliability, scalability, and operational architecture of Splunk Agent Observability's platform. This hybrid role focuses on deploying and scaling cloud and on-prem environments with strong emphasis on automation and best practices.

You will mentor engineers, define reliability roadmaps, and partner with leadership to steer platform architecture and production readiness in a complex, distributed system

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related fields.
• 5+ years operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in production.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or other public clouds.
• Strong experience designing CI/CD platforms and deployment automation at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Lead architecture and evolution of deployment platforms for cloud/on-prem environments.
• Establish SRE standards including SLOs, capacity planning, and resiliency reviews.
• Lead reliability initiatives across Kubernetes, deployment infra, databases, and networking.
• Drive automation to reduce toil and improve productivity.
• Design and build internal platforms and tooling for reliable operations at scale.
• Lead incident response and drive long-term remediation and root-causes.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Python/Go

Observability

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Cisco is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to provide technical leadership for the reliability, scalability, and operational architecture of Splunk Agent Observability's platform. This hybrid role focuses on deploying and scaling cloud and on-prem environments with strong emphasis on automation and best practices.

You will mentor engineers, define reliability roadmaps, and partner with leadership to steer platform architecture and production readiness in a complex, distributed system