Cisco

Site Reliability Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco$214K — $309K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree and 8+ years of experience with distributed databases (CassandraDB, OpenSearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL).
  • 5+ years managing large AWS infrastructures and supporting SaaS production environments.
  • 5+ years in infrastructure automation and DevOps practices (CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes).
  • 3+ years leading technical projects with focus on task estimation and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and operate large-scale distributed data platforms across AWS and private cloud.
  • Lead cloud engineering initiatives to automate infrastructure and enhance deployment reliability.
  • Drive capacity planning and performance optimization for high-throughput production systems.
  • Ensure platform integrity via automated backups, security updates, and incident management.
  • Consult application teams on data access patterns and cloud architecture.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment, conducive to remote or hybrid setups.
  • Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.
  • Access to advanced tools and technologies in cloud and data engineering.
  • Collaborative culture promoting innovation and thought leadership.
Full Job Description
The successful applicant may be performing work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

Your Impact

You'll design, deploy, and operate resilient large-scale distributed data platforms across AWS and private cloud environments, with a focus on Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch. You'll lead cloud engineering initiatives that automate infrastructure and improve reliability and deployment velocity using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, while driving capacity planning and performance optimization for high-throughput production systems. You'll also ensure platform integrity through automated backup, security patching, and incident management workflows, and serve as a trusted technical consultant to application teams on data access patterns, cloud architecture, and migration strategies. Above all, you'll build infrastructure designed to scale, recover from regional outages, and eliminate repetitive operational work through thoughtful automation.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelors and 8+ years of hands-on experience deploying, monitoring, scaling, and upgrading distributed databases such as CassandraDB, OpenSearch, Kafka, and PostgreSQL.
  • 5+ years managing AWS infrastructure at scale and supporting live, customer-facing SaaS production environments.
  • 5+ years of experience with infrastructure automation and DevOps practices, including CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes), and Python.
  • 3+ years leading technical projects, including task estimation, milestone tracking, and stakeholder communication.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with modern data platforms, including data pipelines, streaming, AI/ML and GenAI workloads; Java/Python data-driven applications and data access patterns; and regulated U.S. Federal environments.

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