Meet the Team
The Splunk Agent Resilience team is defining the future of AI resilience. Our team provides scalable, cost-effective evaluation and guardrails that ensure AI agents behave as intended, improving reliability and reducing risks. This unified approach empowers our customers to confidently deploy and manage AI-powered applications with enhanced observability and control.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will build, operate, and continuously improve the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of Splunk Agent Resilience's deployment platform and production infrastructure. You will own the operational backbone supporting both cloud and air-gapped customer deployments, develop automation to improve operational efficiency, and partner closely with engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems.
Your Impact
- Operate and improve Kubernetes-based production infrastructure and deployment systems
- Own customer deployments across cloud and air-gapped environments, including installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management
- Build and improve deployment observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency through automation and performance optimization
- Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements
- Tune infrastructure components—including databases and services—to improve performance and resilience
- Design and develop internal tooling using Python and/or Go
- Debug complex production issues spanning Kubernetes, networking, storage, and application layers
- Manage infrastructure using Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools
- Collaborate with software engineers and customers to design secure, scalable, and reliable deployment architectures
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related field
- 3+ years' operating Kubernetes in production; experience with Helm
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD platforms and deployment automation
- Experience working with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience improving production reliability, scalability, and availability
- Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting platforms
- Strong scripting or programming skills in Python and/or Go
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
- Experience with MLOps preferred
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (VPCs, DNS, routing, load balancing)
- Experience operating and tuning data infrastructure for performance and reliability — OLTP/OLAP databases, message queues, and object storage systems
- Experience deploying and supporting cloud and air-gapped/on-prem environments
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems
- Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, infrastructure, security, and customer-facing teams
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.
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Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related field
- 3+ years operating Kubernetes in production; experience with Helm
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD platforms and deployment automation
- Experience working with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms
- Experience improving production reliability, scalability, and availability
- Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting platforms
- Strong scripting or programming skills in Python and/or Go
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
- Experience with MLOps
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (VPCs, DNS, routing, load balancing)
- Experience operating and tuning data infrastructure for performance and reliability (OLTP/OLAP databases, message queues, object storage)
- Experience deploying and supporting cloud and air-gapped/on-prem environments
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, security, and customer-facing teams
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 — Health coverage is described as broad, with medical options including PPOs, high-deductible plans, and regional HMOs. Feedback suggests robust wellness and mental-health resources, with some locations offering on-site support and second medical opinions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is highlighted through paid holidays, paid time off, and additional recharge days such as “Days for Me,” with generous volunteer time also mentioned. Feedback suggests these programs help support rest, volunteering, and critical life events.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support appears extensive, including paid child-bonding leave, family medical leave, and caregiving resources. Observations also point to family-planning assistance and adoption or surrogacy support in some regions.
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