Senior SRE (Hybrid) - AI Resilience Platform

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

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and continuously improve the reliability and scalability of Splunk Agent Observability's deployment platform and production infrastructure.

You will own the operational backbone supporting cloud and air-gapped deployments, automate operational tasks, and partner with engineering teams to deliver secure and scalable systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform/Cloud/Infrastructure Engineering, or related fields.
• 3+ years’ operating Kubernetes in production; experience with Helm.

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 operations

CI/CD

Automation

Observability

Troubleshooting

Python

Go

Cloud fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Python

Go

AWS

GCP

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and continuously improve the reliability and scalability of Splunk Agent Observability's deployment platform and production infrastructure.

You will own the operational backbone supporting cloud and air-gapped deployments, automate operational tasks, and partner with engineering teams to deliver secure and scalable systems.