Meet the Team
The Meraki SRE Platform Engineering team builds and operates the infrastructure that powers Meraki’s cloud. We focus on delivering reliable, scalable, and simple platforms that enable product teams to move quickly while maintaining a strong and secure operating environment.
Your Impact
At Cisco Meraki, we build technology that simply works—reliable, secure, and easy to use. We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Technical Leader to help us design, operate, and scale a Kubernetes-based platform supporting various environments.
This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure. You’ll work closely with engineers across the stack to ensure our platform is resilient, observable, compliant, and developer-friendly—without slowing teams down.
- Design, build, and operate production-grade Kubernetes platforms in a regulated and non-regulated environments.
- Improve system reliability through automation, thoughtful design, and continuous iteration
- Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to guide reliability decisions
- Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that are secure, scalable, and easy to use
- Implement robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) to make systems understandable and actionable
- Reduce operational toil by automating repetitive processes and improving workflows
- Partner with security and compliance teams to meet Compliance requirements without sacrificing developer velocity
- Support audit processes, including documentation, controls implementation, and audit readiness
- Participate in on-call rotations supporting customer requests and paging alerts
- Participate in incident response, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts
- Help shape a platform that engineers enjoy using
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
- Strong experience running Kubernetes in production (EKS, AKS, GKE, or upstream)
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking fundamentals
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
- Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, Go)
- Experience building or operating observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK)
- Working knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI, ISO)
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and drive cross-functional initiatives across engineering, security, and operations teams
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure 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.
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.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
- Strong experience running Kubernetes in production (EKS, AKS, GKE, or upstream)
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking fundamentals
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
- Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, Go)
- Experience building or operating observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK)
- Working knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI, ISO)
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and drive cross-functional initiatives
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership
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 robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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