Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Application window has been extended until October 16, 2024.
The Cisco Security Innovation team incubates ideas for the leading provider of network security services, which enables the world to connect with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime.
Cisco Security is passionate about the interconnected SASE world. Our product portfolio includes solutions that span SD-WAN firewalls, Web-based proxies, Zero Trust proxies, and inspection and encryption services at a variety of network intersections. We are now engineering a highly available distributed security fabric that brings it all together.
What You Will Do
We work in an agile, "startup-style" environment with minimal bureaucracy. You will be part of a small team driving the next evolution of security at Cisco. You will work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry in taking Cisco's Hypershield solution to market. You will implement the infrastructure needed to deliver our management plane frontend to AWS for large-scale availability. You will build solutions to manage scale, performance and disaster recovery for high-use, frequently updated software in an observable, reliable and fault-tolerant deployment. You will also work closely with the DevOps engineers on a wide range of continuous improvement initiatives to help improve our infrastructure and customer experience.
Who You Are
You are an innovative Site Reliability Engineer with experience in managing large-scale SaaS deployments. You are comfortable in architecting deployment solutions that accelerate software deployment at scale, with a mindset towards reliability, observability and fault tolerance. You enjoy staying on top of the latest technologies and are always looking for ways to improve our deployment and tooling. You are comfortable presenting your solutions to internal teams, defining tasks, driving consensus and executing your plans. You are not afraid to be creative with technologies and enjoy managing complex operations.
Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 3 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or DevOps Engineer
• 7+ years' experience working in cloud computing and network security environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience managing large-scale SaaS deployments to public cloud: security, load-balancing, logging, monitoring, tuning, redundancies, and deployment automation.
• Strong background in Kubernetes and other containerization technologies
• Strong foundation in CI/CD tools and automation processes. e.g. Terraform, ArgoCD.
• Working as part of a remote or distributed team
• Proficiency in Linux environments

Why Cisco Secure
We're global, we're adaptable, we're diverse, and our security portfolio is as extensive as it is groundbreaking. Have you heard of Threat, Detection & Response, Zero Trust by Duo, Common Services Engineering, or Cloud & Network Security? Those are only a few of our product teams! The only thing we're missing is YOU.
Join an enterprise security leader with a start-up culture, committed to driving innovation and giving you the opportunity to make an impact. We #InnovateToWin and we know we're better together, that's why we're dedicated to inclusivity, collaboration, and diversity in everything we do.
We're proud to be the Best Small and Mid-Size Enterprises Security Solution Cisco Secure continues to grow and evolve year after year with 100% of Fortune 100 Companies using our products, and we're excited to see the new heights we'll reach with your passion for security, your customer focus, and your desire to change things up!
There are so many amazing reasons to join Cisco. Learn more here!
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