Cisco

Technical Leader, SIte Reliability Engineer

Cisco$214K — $309K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with 12+ years in large-scale distributed systems design and operations.
  • 7+ years managing Kubernetes platforms in production, familiar with multi-cluster setups and major cloud environments.
  • Expertise in networking architectures for Kubernetes, including CNI configurations and service mesh solutions.
  • Proficient with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps, particularly using Terraform and ArgoCD.
  • Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices like SLOs/SLIs and incident management.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills for influencing technical teams and executives.
  • Proficient in programming (Go, Python, Ruby or similar) for automation and platform development.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and optimization of Kubernetes capabilities in cloud and on-premise environments.
  • Enhance reliability, security, and scalability for numerous engineering teams through technical initiatives.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to meet platform roadmaps and reliability objectives.
  • Provide expertise during incidents, architecture reviews, and infrastructure upgrades.
  • Mentor senior engineers and enhance overall engineering quality through leadership and reviews.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead critical technical initiatives in a high-impact role.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology in a cloud-native and hybrid environment.
  • Chance to mentor and elevate the engineering skills within the organization.
  • Work in a collaborative environment across diverse teams and disciplines.
Full Job Description
This position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.
Your Impact
  • Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our Kubernetes platform capabilities across cloud and on-premises environments, supporting mission-critical workloads at scale.
  • Drive technical initiatives that improve reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity for hundreds of engineering teams using Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps.
  • Partner with engineering, security, and product teams to execute platform roadmaps and deliver on company-critical reliability goals.
  • Provide technical leadership during major incidents, architecture reviews, platform transformations, and strategic infrastructure investments.
  • Mentor senior engineers and help raise the engineering bar through hands-on technical leadership, code/design reviews, operational excellence, and automated remediation.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) and 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments, with a proven track record of leading cross-organizational platform initiatives.
  • 7+ years of experience operating Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native infrastructure in production (including multi-cluster environments) and expertise in cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem or hybrid clouds.
  • Prior experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting networking architectures for large-scale Kubernetes platforms, including CNI implementations and service mesh.
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps technologies, specifically utilizing Terraform and ArgoCD.
  • Experience implementing SRE practices, including SLOs/SLIs, incident management, production readiness reviews, and automated remediation.
  • Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to effectively influence engineers, architects, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders.
  • Strong software engineering experience with Go, Python, ruby, or similar programming languages used for automation and platform development.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with migrating monolithic applications to a microservices architecture.
  • Knowledge of foundational networking concepts (e.g., switching, routing, Wi-Fi, IoT).
  • Advanced knowledge of observability tools and implementing comprehensive monitoring strategies for distributed systems.
  • Experience driving toil reduction through advanced automation and self-service developer platforms.


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