Cisco

Software Engineer

Cisco$155K — $222K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field + 5 years experience, Master's + 3 years, or PhD.
  • Experience with SQL.
  • Expertise in designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
  • Proficiency in Terraform, including reusable modules and remote state management.
  • Experience managing production Kubernetes-based applications.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable CI/CD pipelines for software and infrastructure delivery.
  • Automate infrastructure setup with Terraform and reusable modules.
  • Develop standardized workflows for building, testing, and deploying applications.
  • Maintain Kubernetes deployment platforms, including configuration and resource management.
  • Integrate security controls into the CI/CD process, including scanning and policy enforcement.
  • Create templates and services to enable independent software delivery for teams.
  • Establish observability practices for pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Flexible work arrangements including options for remote work.
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools in software delivery.
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 09/23/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact

You will partner with Engineering, Quality, Security, Release Management, and Infrastructure leaders to identify delivery constraints and translate them into durable platform capabilities. Your work will establish common engineering practices, reduce operational friction, and enable teams to deliver software faster and more safely while maintaining appropriate security, compliance, and reliability controls.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure delivery.


  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and reusable infrastructure modules.


  • Develop standardized deployment workflows supporting build, test, security scanning, artifact management, promotion, and rollback.


  • Build and maintain Kubernetes deployment platforms, including workload configuration, resource management, autoscaling, and cluster operations.


  • Implement GitOps-based deployment and configuration-management workflows using Argo CD.


  • Create reusable pipeline templates, Terraform modules, and platform services that enable development teams to deliver software independently.


  • Integrate automated unit, integration, regression, and infrastructure tests into CI/CD pipelines.


  • Implement security controls across the software supply chain, including secrets management, dependency scanning, container scanning, policy enforcement, and image hardening.


  • Develop automation and internal developer tools using Go, Python, and shell scripting.


  • Improve pipeline reliability, execution time, deployment frequency, change-failure rate, and mean time to recovery.


  • Establish observability for pipelines, deployments, Kubernetes workloads, and cloud infrastructure using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.


  • Diagnose and resolve failures across CI/CD systems, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and application deployments.


  • Optimize cloud resource utilization and infrastructure costs through capacity analysis, Kubernetes rightsizing, and automated governance.


  • Partner with application, security, QA, and platform engineering teams to improve developer experience and operational readiness.


  • Participate in production support and on-call activities, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action tracking.


  • Create technical documentation, architectural standards, operational runbooks, and platform onboarding guides.


Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's + 5 years of relevant experience, or Master's degree + 3 years of relevant experience, or PhD + 0 years of relevant experience. Degree should be in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field.


  • Experience using SQL


  • Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms.


  • Proficiency with Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state, provider management, and environment promotion strategies.


  • Experience operating Kubernetes-based applications in production.


  • Knowledge of Docker, container registries, image lifecycle management, and container security.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, distributed systems, SaaS products, or cloud-native architectures.


  • Experience in cybersecurity, security analytics, or enterprise security products.


  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve coding, data analysis, automation, testing, or documentation workflows.


  • Familiarity with applying machine learning, generative AI, or large language models to analyze data, identify patterns, summarize findings, or generate actionable insights.


  • Experience evaluating AI-generated results for accuracy, reliability, security, and responsible uses.

  • Experience in Go or Python

  • Understanding branching strategies, release management, semantic versioning, artifact promotion, and automated rollback.

About Cisco

Cisco Careers

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Size
79,500 employees
Market Cap
$194.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$10.1 billion
Founded
2014
5 Year Trend
+1.4%
Revenue
$48 billion
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