Site Reliability Engineer, Engineering Enablement

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Design and architect the next generation of Cisco’s developer platform.

• Develop and enhance essential infrastructure for the creation, testing, and deployment of cloud applications.

• Integrate various legacy tools into a modern, unified, and scalable developer platform.

• Empower engineers to experiment safely and confidently while effectively building products.

• Foster operational excellence throughout the organization.

• Understand the priorities and practices of other engineering teams to create compatible systems.

• Collaborate on cross-functional initiatives within Cloud Engineering and engage with non-technical stakeholders.

• Participate in an on-call rotation and perform sustainable incident responses.

• Conduct blameless postmortems to analyze incidents.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree in a STEM field with 3+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent related work experience.

• 3+ years of professional experience in writing production-grade code in Python or Ruby, with a focus on tooling or automation.

• 3+ years of experience managing infrastructure-as-code, such as Terraform or Ansible.

• Experience managing infrastructure in environments that support 500+ nodes or complex, high-frequency CI/CD pipelines.

• Proficient with modern Unix/Linux operating systems and distributions.

• Experience in building and supporting tools for a rapidly growing engineering organization with over 1,500 employees.

• Familiarity with hybrid cloud environments, including bare metal, container orchestration, and managed cloud services.

• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

• Understanding of DORA and SPACE DevOps measurement metrics.

• Interest in developing highly resilient and scalable systems with an owner/operator mindset.

• Ability to swiftly learn unfamiliar technologies within a diverse toolset.

• Must be a U.S. Person eligible for work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments.

• Some roles may require U.S. citizenship and performance on U.S. soil.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.

• Paid parental leave.

• Coverage for short- and long-term disability.

• Basic life insurance.

• Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, vesting upon continued employment.

• 10 paid holidays each calendar year.

• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.

• 1 paid day off for the employee’s birthday.

• Paid year-end holiday shutdown.

• 4 paid days off for personal wellness.

• 16 days of paid vacation per calendar year for non-exempt employees.

• Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees.

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on the hire date and every January 1st thereafter.

• Up to 80 hours of unused sick time may be carried forward.

• Additional paid time off for critical or emergency family issues.

• Optional 10 paid volunteer days each calendar year.

• Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies.