Senior SRE: Kubernetes, CI/CD & Automation Excellence

Cisco Systems, Inc; San Francisco (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 continually improve the reliability of Splunk Agent Observability deployment platforms. You will own deployments across cloud and air-gapped environments and partner with engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable systems.

The role requires strong automation in Python/Go, Terraform-based IaC, and deep Kubernetes expertise, with on-site Tuesdays and Thursdays in SF and SJ as part of a hybrid schedule.

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience in SRE, Platform/Cloud/Infrastructure Engineering or related field
• 3+ years operating Kubernetes in production; experience with Helm
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD platforms and deployment automation

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

AWS

GCP

Python

Go

Terraform

MLOps

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD platforms

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and continually improve the reliability of Splunk Agent Observability deployment platforms. You will own deployments across cloud and air-gapped environments and partner with engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable systems.

The role requires strong automation in Python/Go, Terraform-based IaC, and deep Kubernetes expertise, with on-site Tuesdays and Thursdays in SF and SJ as part of a hybrid schedule.