Senior SRE Lead: Cloud Scale & Data Platform Automation

Cisco; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) with Cisco matching

Parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Stock-based incentives

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer in Milpitas, CA to design, deploy, and operate large-scale distributed data platforms across AWS and on‑premise environments. You’ll focus on Cassandra, OpenSearch, Kafka, and PostgreSQL while driving automation with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Python.

You will lead cloud engineering initiatives, improve reliability, and ensure platform integrity through automated backups, patching, and incident workflows, partnering with global

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years deploying, monitoring and upgrading distributed databases.
• 5+ years managing AWS infrastructure at scale for SaaS production environments.
• 5+ years DevOps: CI/CD, IaC, Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate large-scale distributed data platforms across AWS and private clouds.
• Lead cloud engineering initiatives to automate infrastructure and improve reliability and deployment velocity.
• Ensure platform integrity with automated backup, patching, and incident workflows.

Skills

Cassandra

OpenSearch

Kafka

PostgreSQL

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Cisco is seeking a Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer in Milpitas, CA to design, deploy, and operate large-scale distributed data platforms across AWS and on‑premise environments. You’ll focus on Cassandra, OpenSearch, Kafka, and PostgreSQL while driving automation with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Python.

You will lead cloud engineering initiatives, improve reliability, and ensure platform integrity through automated backups, patching, and incident workflows, partnering with global