This position offers hybrid work requiring three days of in-office attendance per week.
MEET THE TEAMThe Engineering Systems team serves as the backbone of Cisco’s Collaboration organization, empowering engineering teams to build, secure, test, and release software at an enterprise scale. Our work directly supports the development of workplaces of tomorrow, ensuring that millions of daily users experience reliable, secure, and scalable connections. We are a collaborative group of engineers who thrive on technical depth and a high-energy, supportive atmosphere. We are particularly excited about our ongoing work in modernizing deployment workflows and implementing AI-assisted engineering to revolutionize our development practices.
YOUR IMPACTLead high-impact engineering systems initiatives across GitHub migration, CI/CD, and secure delivery to modernize our software development lifecycle. Mentor fellow engineers and guide design decisions to build resilient team capability and ensure long-term system health. Drive practical security improvements within our pipelines and artifacts to protect our software delivery processes. Improve developer productivity by reducing build and deployment friction while using performance metrics to measure and drive continuous quality. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate broad technical requirements into clear, adopted solutions that define our future operating models.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps/SRE, build and release engineering, security engineering, developer tooling, or related roles.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex technical problems from discovery through delivery, adoption, measurement, and operational follow-through.
- Strong technical depth in at least one relevant domain such as GitHub, CI/CD, modern deployment, secure software delivery, or pipeline and artifact security.
- Experience in developer platforms, build systems, or large-scale engineering operations.
- Experience leading work across teams where success depended on influence, stakeholder alignment, adoption, documentation, support readiness, and guiding other engineers through technical decisions.
- GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, repository and organization migration, repository governance, organization policies, GitHub Apps, or large-scale repository management.
- CI/CD and deployment systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness, or similar platforms, including release orchestration, rollback patterns, environment management, artifact workflows, or release readiness.
- Security automation or secure delivery workflows, especially pipeline and artifact security, including SAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, secret scanning and similar.
- Developer experience, internal developer platforms, software catalogs, documentation, workflows, or related implementation experience with Java/TypeScript, Node.js, Cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, containers, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Observability, operational monitoring, dashboards, alerting, on-call workflows, runbooks, incident response, support operations, reliability improvement, metrics-driven prioritization, and experience balancing strong technical opinions with practical delivery in a large organization.
Note: We understand that candidates may not meet every qualification listed.
We encourage you to apply if you have deep experience in one or more relevant
areas, strong ownership, and a track record of making complex engineering
systems better at scale.
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
- 8+ years experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps/SRE, build and release engineering, security engineering, developer tooling, or related roles
- Demonstrated ownership of complex technical problems from discovery through delivery, adoption, measurement, and operational follow-through
- Strong technical depth in at least one relevant domain such as GitHub, CI/CD, modern deployment, secure software delivery, or pipeline and artifact security
- Experience in developer platforms, build systems, or large-scale engineering operations
- Experience leading cross-team work requiring influence, stakeholder alignment, adoption, documentation, and support readiness
- Experience with GitHub Enterprise, repository and organization migration, repository governance, organization policies, or GitHub Apps
- Experience with CI/CD and deployment systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness, including release orchestration and rollback patterns
- Security automation or secure delivery workflows, including pipeline and artifact security (SAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, secret scanning)
- Experience with developer experience, internal developer platforms, software catalogs, documentation, and related tooling
- Practical implementation experience with Java, TypeScript, Node.js, cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, containers, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, and observability/monitoring
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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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.
