Cisco

Customer Reliability Engineer, Hypershield (remote)

Cisco$158K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's + 8 years or Master's + 6 years of relevant experience
  • Experience in high-pressure environments diagnosing complex production incidents
  • Hands-on experience with Cisco Nexus/NX-OS or equivalent from another vendor
  • Knowledge in localizing failures in multi-layered data center architectures
  • Linux command line proficiency with experience in container operations

Responsibilities

  • Own and resolve escalated Hypershield cases while engaging customers directly
  • Diagnose failures in complex production systems involving the N9300 Smart Switch and Kubernetes
  • Identify faults across switching, services, and control plane architectures
  • Develop a deep understanding of customer environments to address production failures
  • Reproduce issues, collaborate with engineering, and ensure fixes are delivered back to customers
  • Convert resolved cases into systemic improvements for broader knowledge and tools
  • Build proactive customer health monitoring and reliability practices as the team grows

Benefits

  • Opportunity to engage directly with enterprise customers and troubleshoot complex systems
  • Role focused on systemic improvement and knowledge sharing within a growing team
  • Environment that encourages proactive practices for customer health and reliability
  • Potential for hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies in networking and cloud operations
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 07/31/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact

The ideal candidate combines deep networking expertise with strong troubleshooting skills, customer-facing experience, and a passion for improving reliability across complex product environments.

  • Own Hypershield cases escalated from Cisco TAC through to resolution, engaging customers directly as the incident requires


  • Diagnose complex production failures through the Hypershield surface: the N9300 Smart Switch fabric and the on-premises Kubernetes controller that manages its security policy


  • Localize faults across the layered architecture: switching and forwarding, security services and enforcement, and the control plane


  • Develop a deep understanding of each customer's architecture and configuration, and diagnose failures in unfamiliar production environments


  • Reproduce customer failures, partner with engineering to drive fixes, and own the fix back to the customer


  • Convert individual cases into systemic improvements: runbooks, diagnostics, knowledge-base content, and product feedback to engineering


  • Help build the team's proactive view of customer health, developing new monitoring, tooling, and reliability practices as the installed base grows


Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's + 8 years of experience, Master's + 6 years, or equivalent industry experience


  • Experience supporting enterprise customers in an escalation capacity, including diagnosing and resolving complex production incidents under SLA pressure in unfamiliar environments


  • Experience operating and troubleshooting Cisco Nexus / NX-OS in production; equivalent depth on another major vendor accepted


  • Prior experience to localize failures across a layered data-center architecture spanning switching/forwarding, services/enforcement, and control-plane domains


  • Linux operations experience at the command line, including production troubleshooting, with working exposure to containers or Kubernetes


Preferred Qualifications

  • Direct experience using network troubleshooting tooling as a primary diagnostic method, including packet capture and flow-telemetry analysis (NetFlow/IPFIX)


  • Working knowledge of enterprise virtualization, sufficient to troubleshoot a VM-based appliance deployment; vSphere is the current deployment target


  • Operational Kubernetes and Helm proficiency, including diagnosing failures beyond the workload level: TLS certificates and service-account authentication, API-server connectivity, service exposure, persistent storage for stateful workloads, and custom resources and operators


  • Working knowledge of VXLAN EVPN fabrics, including the Smart Switch's placement within them and the ability to isolate faults across the fabric


  • Network segmentation and firewall policy design (zone-based or microsegmentation), and the tradeoffs vs. traditional NGFWs


  • Familiarity with the NetOps/NetSecOps operating split in data-center security


  • Experience driving diagnosis and remediation through a customer's own team, working incidents in environments with no direct access where the customer accomplishes the steps


  • Experience with NX-OS automation and APIs (NX-API, NETCONF/RESTCONF, gNMI, or Ansible); familiarity with Cisco Nexus Dashboard a plus


  • Demonstrated ability to communicate incident status, root cause, and remediation clearly to both technical and executive audiences, verbally and in writing


  • CCNP Data Center, CCNP Enterprise, DevNet Professional, CCIE Data Center, CCIE Enterprise, or DevNet Expert (a plus)

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