# Software Engineering Technical Leader

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Galway
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Engineering Systems team at Cisco serves as the backbone of the company's Collaboration organization, empowering engineering teams to build, secure, test, and release software at an enterprise scale.

As a Software Engineering Technical Leader, you will lead high-impact engineering systems initiatives across GitHub migration, CI/CD, and secure delivery to modernize the software development lifecycle.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead high-impact engineering systems initiatives

- Mentor fellow engineers and guide design decisions

- Drive practical security improvements within pipelines and artifacts

- Improve developer productivity by reducing build and deployment friction

- Partner with cross-functional teams to translate broad technical requirements into clear solutions

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

- Strong technical depth in at least one relevant domain

- Experience in developer platforms, build systems, or large-scale engineering operations

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience leading work across teams

- GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, repository and organization migration

- CI/CD and deployment systems

- Security automation or secure delivery workflows

- Developer experience, internal developer platforms, software catalogs

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- platform engineering
- DevOps
- SRE
- build and release engineering
- security engineering
- developer tooling

### Nice to have
- GitHub Enterprise
- GitHub Actions
- CI/CD
- deployment systems
- security automation
- secure delivery workflows
- Java
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Cloud-native platforms
- Kubernetes
- containers
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Terraform
- Ansible

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