Senior SRE - AI Resilience & Kubernetes Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Paid holidays and vacation

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the Splunk Agent Observability deployment platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security across cloud and air-gapped environments. The role is hybrid with about two on-site days per week at Cisco offices in San Francisco, San Jose, or New York City.

You will own deployments, automate operations, and work with engineers to deliver secure, scalable architectures.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in SRE, platform or cloud engineering.
• 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

Helm

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Python

Go

Job description

Cisco is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the Splunk Agent Observability deployment platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security across cloud and air-gapped environments. The role is hybrid with about two on-site days per week at Cisco offices in San Francisco, San Jose, or New York City.

You will own deployments, automate operations, and work with engineers to deliver secure, scalable architectures.