Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Bangalore | 10+ Yrs
Cisco · Posted Nov 2
Networking, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise IT infrastructure services
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About the role
The Splunk Agent Resilience team at Cisco builds scalable, cost-effective evaluation and guardrails that ensure AI agents behave as intended, improving reliability and reducing risk for customers deploying AI-powered applications. The team focuses on observability, control, and platform resiliency across cloud and air-gapped/on-prem environments. As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, the role provides technical leadership for the platform's reliability, scalability, and operational architecture, leading major infrastructure initiatives, deployment automation, and production operations.
What you will do
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Lead the architecture and evolution of deployment platforms supporting cloud and air-gapped customer environments.
- Establish reliability engineering standards, including service level objectives (SLOs), operational readiness, capacity planning, and resiliency reviews.
- Lead major reliability and scalability initiatives across Kubernetes, deployment infrastructure, databases, and networking.
- Drive automation to eliminate operational toil and improve engineering productivity.
- Design and build internal platforms, frameworks, and tooling that enable reliable operations at scale.
- Lead complex production incident response and drive systemic improvements through root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
- Partner with engineering leadership to influence platform architecture, deployment strategy, and production readiness.
- Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, and operational guidelines.
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to build secure, scalable, and highly reliable deployment architectures for both cloud and on-prem environments.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years’ operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in production.
- Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or other public cloud platforms.
- Strong experience designing CI/CD platforms and deployment automation at scale.
Preferred qualifications
- Expertise in observability, monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and performance engineering. Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go.
- Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Experience operating and tuning data infrastructure at scale — OLTP/OLAP databases, message queues, and object storage systems
- Experience with MLOps preferred
- Strong understanding of networking, distributed systems, storage, databases, and cloud architecture
- Experience operating both SaaS and enterprise/on-prem deployments
- Experience leading incident management, postmortems, and long-term reliability initiatives
- Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, infrastructure, security, and customer-facing teams
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc. is a worldwide leader in IT, networking, and cybersecurity solutions that transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. The company specializes in routing, switching, data center infrastructure, and software-defined networking designed for enterprises of all sizes. Today, Cisco drives major advancements in AI infrastructure, observability, and secure hybrid work platforms.
- Industry
- Networking
- Company size
- 90000+ employees
- Founded
- 1984
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
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