Meet the Team
The SRE Compliance Services team enables proactive and sustainable compliance across Meraki's infrastructure by building automation, scalable tooling, and efficient processes. Our work helps Cisco Meraki maintain customer trust at platform scale by turning compliance requirements into reliable engineering systems instead of manual workflows. The team eliminates toil, shifts compliance left, and partners across Security, Risk, and SRE to make the right thing easy and sustainable.
Your Impact
- Build automation for compliance workflows, including asset discovery, scanning, and remediation.
- Develop and maintain the Compliance Register and continuous monitoring systems.
- Integrate security tools such as RunZero, Qualys, and vulnerability scanners into automated pipelines.
- Design policy-as-code frameworks to continuously validate infrastructure and application configurations.
- Create dashboards and reporting that provide clear visibility into the organization's compliance posture.
- Debug production compliance issues across asset inventories, security tooling, and automated workflows.
- Partner closely with Security, Risk, and SRE teams to translate compliance requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Reduce organizational toil by building self-service tools, automated guardrails, and reliable compliance workflows.
- Participate in a sustainable on-call rotation of approximately 16 days per year.
Minimum Qualifications
- Professional experience working with Linux, cloud infrastructure, automation, or production systems.
- Proficiency with at least one programming language; Python or Go experience is especially relevant.
- Experience building automation, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or operational tooling.
- Comfort working with APIs and integrating data across multiple systems or distributed services.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, including the ability to debug issues across production environments.
- Interest in security, compliance, governance, or risk domains and how they apply to reliable infrastructure.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly with cross-functional partners.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with vulnerability management, asset discovery, SIEM, or compliance automation tooling; RunZero or Qualys experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST, PCI, SOC 2, or ISO.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code or configuration management tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience with observability, reporting, or data pipeline platforms such as Grafana, ELK, or similar tools.
- Experience operating containerized services using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
Strong fundamentals, ownership, and willingness to learn matter more than prior compliance-specific experience. We value engineers who can turn manual processes into scalable, reliable systems.
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Skills Required
- Professional experience working with Linux, cloud infrastructure, automation, or production systems.
- Proficiency with at least one programming language (Python or Go experience especially relevant).
- Experience building automation, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or operational tooling.
- Comfort working with APIs and integrating data across multiple systems or distributed services.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, including debugging across production environments.
- Interest in security, compliance, governance, or risk domains as they apply to infrastructure.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly with cross-functional partners.
- Experience with vulnerability management, asset discovery, SIEM, or compliance automation tooling (RunZero or Qualys a plus).
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST, PCI, SOC 2, or ISO.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code or configuration management tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience with observability, reporting, or data pipeline platforms such as Grafana or ELK.
- Experience operating containerized services using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
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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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