Senior SRE: Cloud & Kubernetes Reliability Lead

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

Job summary

Cisco Systems is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the reliability, scalability, and automation of the Splunk Agent Observability deployment platform and production infrastructure. You will own deployments across cloud and air-gapped environments, develop automation with Python/Go, and work with engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable systems.

The role requires 7+ years in related fields, strong Kubernetes experience, and proficiency with Terraform and CI/CD

Qualifications

• 7+ years of 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

Python

Go

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

AWS

GCP

Job description

Cisco Systems is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the reliability, scalability, and automation of the Splunk Agent Observability deployment platform and production infrastructure. You will own deployments across cloud and air-gapped environments, develop automation with Python/Go, and work with engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable systems.

The role requires 7+ years in related fields, strong Kubernetes experience, and proficiency with Terraform and CI/CD