Senior SRE: AI Platform Reliability & Scale

Cisco Systems, Inc; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 308,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) with matching contributions

Paid parental leave

Short and long-term disability

Life insurance

Vacation time and sick time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability, scalability, and operational architecture for the Splunk Agent Observability platform. You will own the long-term reliability strategy, drive major infrastructure initiatives, and mentor engineers across deployment automation, production operations, and platform resiliency.

You will define reliability standards, lead complex production incidents, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure,

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience with a Bachelor's degree or 6+ yrs with Masters or 3+ years with a PhD, or equivalent related experience; Experience to include at least 6 years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform / Cloud / Infrastructure Engineering, or related fields.
• 5+ years' operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in production.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems.
• Experience with AWS, GCP or other public cloud platforms.
• 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 the architecture and evolution of deployment platforms supporting cloud and air-gapped customer environments.
• Establish reliability engineering standards, including SLOs, operational readiness, capacity planning, and resiliency reviews.
• Lead major reliability and scalability initiatives across Kubernetes, deployment infrastructure, databases, and networking.
• Drive automation to eliminate operational toil and improve engineering productivity.
• Design and build internal platforms, frameworks, and tooling that enable reliable operations at scale.
• Lead complex production incident response and drive systemic improvements through root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
• Partner with engineering leadership to influence platform architecture, deployment strategy, and production readiness.
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, and operational guidelines.
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to build secure, scalable, and highly reliable deployment architectures for both cloud and on-prem environments.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD automation

Python

Go

Observability

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability, scalability, and operational architecture for the Splunk Agent Observability platform. You will own the long-term reliability strategy, drive major infrastructure initiatives, and mentor engineers across deployment automation, production operations, and platform resiliency.

You will define reliability standards, lead complex production incidents, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure,