About the Team
CloudOps Automation is a Platform Engineering team focused on making cloud operations safer, simpler, and more efficient.
The team builds automation frameworks, tools, and reusable components that help infrastructure, platform, and engineering teams turn manual runbooks into reliable automated workflows. The goal is not only to reduce manual work, but also to reduce toil, lower cognitive load, improve operational reliability, and make common operational processes more secure and predictable.
Our stack includes Python, Bash, Git, Argo/workflow orchestration, and some Go.
Role
This role is for a Junior Software Engineer interested in software development, automation, cloud operations, and Platform Engineering.
The work includes building and maintaining automation components, improving existing tools, writing tests, debugging issues, and contributing to documentation. The engineer will work with more experienced team members and collaborate with teams that own operational workflows.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain automation tools, libraries, and workflow components.
- Help convert manual operational runbooks into safe, repeatable automated workflows.
- Write clean, tested code, mainly in Python.
- Use Git, code reviews, and standard development practices.
- Debug and troubleshoot automation issues.
- Contribute to documentation, guides, examples, and troubleshooting materials.
- Help improve automation quality, reliability, security, and ease of use.
- Collaborate with workflow owners and platform teams to understand operational problems and design practical solutions.
Minimum Qualifications
- Motivation to learn and improve as a software engineer.
- Knowledge of Python or another modern programming language.
- Basic experience with Git.
- Understanding of software development fundamentals: coding, debugging, testing, and documentation.
- Familiarity with automated tests, such as unit, functional, or integration tests.
- Basic Linux or command-line experience.
- Good problem-solving and communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of related experience, Master’s degree with 0 years of related experience, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bash scripting experience.
- Familiarity with Go.
- Exposure to Argo Workflows or similar workflow orchestration tools.
- Interest in cloud operations, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, or SRE.
- Experience with APIs, CLI tools, YAML/JSON, or CI/CD pipelines.
- Interest in improving security, reliability, and developer/operator experience through automation.
What Makes This Role Interesting
This role works on practical Platform Engineering problems. The team builds reusable tools and standards that help other teams operate cloud systems with less toil, less manual effort, lower cognitive load, and better security.
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.
Skills Required
- Motivation to learn and improve as a software engineer
- Knowledge of Python or another modern programming language
- Basic experience with Git
- Understanding of software development fundamentals: coding, debugging, testing, and documentation
- Familiarity with automated tests (unit, functional, or integration)
- Basic Linux or command-line experience
- Good problem-solving and communication skills
- Bachelor's degree with 2 years related experience, Master's with 0 years, or equivalent practical experience
- Bash scripting experience
- Familiarity with Go
- Exposure to Argo Workflows or similar workflow orchestration tools
- Experience with APIs, CLI tools, YAML/JSON, or CI/CD pipelines
- Interest in cloud operations, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, or SRE
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support via an EAP, and access to on-site or virtual health centers indicate robust healthcare offerings. Wellness programs, fitness resources, and specialized services further reinforce coverage depth.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, a global minimum for paid parental leave, and unique programs like company-wide recharge days and paid volunteer time expand time-away options. Additional offerings such as Critical Time Off and adoption assistance add flexibility for life events.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Restricted stock units and a discounted employee stock purchase plan are meaningful elements of total compensation. The prominence of equity can materially augment overall pay packages alongside salary and bonuses.
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What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
