OpenStack Platform Engineer

The application window is expected to close on: 10/26/2026

Meet the Team

The CloudV team drives the evolution of our standardized OpenStack virtualization infrastructure, empowering product teams across the organization to deliver high-impact solutions. As part of a platform in its early lifecycle, this role tackles complex technical challenges involving core functionality, tenant user experience, and the development lifecycle. The primary focus remains on streamlining operational processes to ensure running virtualized workloads is frictionless and efficient for all tenants. You will contribute to a foundational technology stack within a distributed and diverse environment of developers and operators committed to infrastructure excellence.

Your Impact

As a Software Engineer on the CloudV team, you will play a pivotal role in the architectural evolution and stabilization of the OpenStack platform, driving its transition from an early-lifecycle product to a mature, enterprise-grade virtualization service. By owning the end-to-end lifecycle automation of the platform, you will directly reduce manual intervention and enhance the reliability of the underlying infrastructure for all internal product teams. Your contributions to observability frameworks and telemetry pipelines will provide critical insights into system health, enabling proactive issue resolution and superior performance metrics. Ultimately, your work on new tenant-facing functionality will simplify how developers consume cloud resources, fostering a more agile and frictionless innovation environment across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

• 3+ years of industry experience in infrastructure, virtualization, or cloud engineering

• 1+ years of experience working with a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

• 1+ years of experience working with Docker

• 1+ years of experience working with CI/CD or DevOps systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional experience in the management and operation of OpenStack platforms and the design of distributed software systems.

• Proficiency with infrastructure management and automation tools including Cisco Intersight, UCS Manager, Ansible, and Terraform.

• Demonstrated expertise in Linux administration, network administration, and specialized Linux networking configurations.

• Technical background in virtualization technologies and containerization platforms such as Docker for infrastructure services.

• Proficiency in Python programming and the development of tools to facilitate platform integration and service operations at scale.

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Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $128,600.00 to $184,900.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$155,000.00 - $256,000.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$138,100.00 - $227,900.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.