Senior SRE: AI Resilience & Platform Reliability Lead

Cisco; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is hiring a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability, scalability, and operational architecture for the Splunk Agent Observability platform. You will shape long-term reliability strategy, drive major infrastructure initiatives, and improve deployment automation across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will mentor engineers, set best practices, and collaborate with customers and internal teams to build secure, scalable deployment architectures.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in SRE, platform/cloud infra, or related fields.
• 5+ years’ operating large-scale Kubernetes in production.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or other public clouds.
• Strong skills in Python and/or Go for tooling and automation.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the reliability roadmap for platform services.
• Lead architecture for deployment platforms across cloud and air-gapped environments.
• Establish SLOs, capacity planning, and resiliency reviews.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Python

Go

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tools

Monitoring tools

Job description

Cisco is hiring a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability, scalability, and operational architecture for the Splunk Agent Observability platform. You will shape long-term reliability strategy, drive major infrastructure initiatives, and improve deployment automation across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will mentor engineers, set best practices, and collaborate with customers and internal teams to build secure, scalable deployment architectures.