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Cisco

Makes networking gear and security software

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in production.
  • Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems.
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, or other public cloud platforms.
  • Strong experience designing CI/CD platforms and deployment automation at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
  • Lead the architecture and evolution of deployment platforms supporting cloud and air-gapped customer environments.
  • Establish reliability engineering standards, including service level objectives, operational readiness, capacity planning, and resiliency reviews.
  • Lead major reliability and scalability initiatives across Kubernetes, deployment infrastructure, databases, and networking.
  • Drive automation to eliminate operational toil and improve engineering productivity.
  • Design and build internal platforms, frameworks, and tooling that enable reliable operations at scale.
  • Lead complex production incident response and drive systemic improvements through root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
  • Partner with engineering leadership to influence platform architecture, deployment strategy, and production readiness.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, and operational guidelines.
  • Collaborate with customers and internal teams to build secure, scalable, and highly reliable deployment architectures for both cloud and on-premises environments.

Desired Qualifications

  • Expertise in observability, monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and performance engineering.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go.
  • Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform or similar.
  • Experience operating and tuning data infrastructure at scale, including OLTP/OLAP databases, message queues, and object storage systems.
  • Experience with MLOps.
  • Strong understanding of networking, distributed systems, storage, databases, and cloud architecture.
  • Experience operating both SaaS and enterprise/on-premises deployments.
  • Experience leading incident management, postmortems, and long-term reliability initiatives.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, infrastructure, security, and customer-facing teams.

About the Company

Cisco

Makes networking gear and security software

Cisco makes the switches and routers that connect offices, data centers, and cloud services, and it also sells cybersecurity tools and Webex video meetings to businesses and governments. It was one of the first companies to sell routers that let different kinds of computer networks exchange data, and in 2000 it briefly became the world's most valuable company. Customers run its network gear, from Wi-Fi access points to AI data center systems, with Cisco software that sets up and secures the network, while its Splunk unit searches computer logs to catch outages and attacks. Cisco earns money from hardware sales, software subscriptions, and support contracts. It was founded in 1984 and is based in San Jose, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Founded
1984

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