Senior SRE — AI Resilience & Cloud Platforms

Cisco; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and continually improve the reliability and scalability of our deployment platform and production infrastructure. You will own deployments across cloud and air-gapped environments, automate workflows, and partner with engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable systems.

You will work in a hybrid role, coordinating on-site days in Cisco offices and remote collaboration with global teams, focusing on observability, incident

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience with a Bachelor’s degree or 4+ yrs with a Masters or 1 year with a PhD, or equivalent related experience; experience to include at least 4 years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform / Cloud / Infrastructure Engineering, or related fields
• 3+ years’ operating Kubernetes in production; experience with Helm
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD platforms and deployment automation
• Experience working with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms

Responsibilities

• Operate and improve Kubernetes-based production infrastructure and deployment systems
• Own customer deployments across cloud and air-gapped environments, including installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management
• Build and improve deployment observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency through automation and performance optimization
• Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements
• Tune infrastructure components—including databases and services—to improve performance and resilience
• Design and develop internal tooling using Python and/or Go
• Debug complex production issues spanning Kubernetes, networking, storage, and application layers
• Manage infrastructure using Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools
• Collaborate with software engineers and customers to design secure, scalable, and reliable deployment architectures

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AWS/GCP

SRE experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Cisco is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and continually improve the reliability and scalability of our deployment platform and production infrastructure. You will own deployments across cloud and air-gapped environments, automate workflows, and partner with engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable systems.

You will work in a hybrid role, coordinating on-site days in Cisco offices and remote collaboration with global teams, focusing on observability, incident