Staff AI Reliability & Platform SRE Lead

Cisco Systems, Inc; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company matching

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to provide technical leadership for reliability, scalability, and operational architecture of Splunk Agent Observability’s platform.

You will define long-term reliability strategy, lead major infrastructure initiatives, and drive excellence across deployment automation and production operations. You will mentor engineers, establish best practices, and collaborate with teams to build secure, scalable deployment architectures

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related fields.
• 5+ years’ operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in production.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or other public cloud platforms.
• Strong experience designing CI/CD platforms and deployment automation at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Lead the architecture and evolution of deployment platforms supporting cloud and air-gapped environments.
• Establish reliability engineering standards, including SLOs, operational readiness, capacity planning, and resiliency reviews.
• Lead major reliability and scalability initiatives across Kubernetes, deployment infra, databases, and networking.
• Drive automation to eliminate toil and improve engineering productivity.
• Design and build internal platforms, frameworks, and tooling for reliable operations at scale.
• Lead complex production incident response and drive systemic improvements via root cause analysis.
• Partner with engineering leadership to influence platform architecture and production readiness.
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through leadership and guidelines.
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to build secure, scalable deployment architectures.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Go

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to provide technical leadership for reliability, scalability, and operational architecture of Splunk Agent Observability’s platform.

You will define long-term reliability strategy, lead major infrastructure initiatives, and drive excellence across deployment automation and production operations. You will mentor engineers, establish best practices, and collaborate with teams to build secure, scalable deployment architectures