# Senior Site Reliability Engineer **Company**: Cisco **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cisco_Careers/job/Bangalore-India/Senior-Site-Reliability-Engineer_2015509-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0d9e06d6-8e8 ## Description The ThousandEyes Efficiency & Performance team is responsible for improving the reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency of the ThousandEyes cloud platform. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in the Efficiency & Performance team, you will play a key role in managing and optimizing ThousandEyes cloud infrastructure cost, improving AWS efficiency, driving FinOps practices, and helping engineering teams make data-driven decisions around cost, performance, and scalability. **Your Impact** - Own and drive AWS cost optimization and efficiency initiatives across ThousandEyes infrastructure. - Analyze cloud usage across compute, storage, databases, observability, networking, and data platform workloads to identify savings opportunities. - Partner with engineering teams to improve application and infrastructure performance while reducing cloud wastage. - Drive FinOps practices including cost visibility, tagging hygiene, showback/chargeback, budgeting, forecasting, anomaly detection, and cost allocation. - Improve infrastructure efficiency through better resource utilization, autoscaling, right-sizing, and capacity planning. - Build automation, dashboards, reports, and guardrails to improve cost governance and operational visibility. - Support ThousandEyes cost reviews, OKR tracking, leadership updates, and stakeholder communications. - Collaborate with product, finance, engineering, and platform teams to align cost optimization with business priorities. - Identify and reduce underutilized infrastructure, idle resources, over-provisioned workloads, and inefficient service usage. - Improve observability, alerting, and monitoring for cost, performance, and platform health indicators. - Influence engineering teams to adopt cost-aware architecture, reliable design patterns, and performance-efficient implementation practices. - Provide senior-level technical leadership, mentor engineers, and independently drive cross-functional initiatives to closure. - Balance reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency in all platform decisions. **Minimum Qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience. - 8–12 years of relevant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Production Engineering, or Performance Engineering. - Strong experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, EMR, Lambda, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, IAM, VPC, and related cloud-native services. - Practical experience in cloud cost optimization, FinOps, AWS billing analysis, cost allocation, tagging, budget tracking, forecasting, and cost governance. - Experience with performance analysis, capacity planning, infrastructure optimization, and reliability improvements for large-scale cloud platforms. - Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet, Ansible, or similar. - Strong scripting or programming skills in Python, Go, Shell, or similar languages for automation, reporting, and operational tooling. - Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as ThousandEyes, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, OpenSearch, Datadog, or similar. - Strong Linux systems knowledge and understanding of distributed systems. - Experience in incident management, production support, reliability engineering, and operational excellence. - Ability to analyze large-scale infrastructure, performance, and cost data and convert findings into actionable engineering recommendations. - Strong communication skills with the ability to present technical, performance, and cost insights to engineering teams, finance, leadership, and multi-functional stakeholders. - Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and managing priorities across multiple teams. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience supporting or optimizing large-scale SaaS platforms in AWS. - FinOps certification or equivalent experience with cloud financial management practices. - Experience with AWS Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot adoption, Graviton migration, storage lifecycle optimization, workload right-sizing, and commitment planning. - Experience with cloud cost management tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, AWS CUR, Cloud-ability, Cloud-Health, or similar platforms. - Experience with performance tuning of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, databases, data pipelines, and high-scale services. - Experience with data platforms or large-scale infrastructure components such as EMR, Kafka, OpenSearch, RDS, Airflow, Spark, Redis, Cassandra, or similar. - Experience driving cross-team cost optimization programs, efficiency OKRs, governance reviews, executive reporting, and measurable savings outcomes. - Ability to influence engineering teams toward cost-conscious architecture, performance-aware design, and operational standard methodologies. - Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure cost optimization, capacity planning, GPU/accelerator cost governance, or AI-driven efficiency tooling is a plus. ## Skills ### Required - AWS - Cloud Infrastructure - Site Reliability Engineering - FinOps - Terraform - CloudFormation - Python - Go - Shell - ThousandEyes - CloudWatch - Prometheus - Grafana - Splunk - OpenSearch - Datadog - Linux ### Nice to have - AWS Savings Plans - Reserved Instances - Spot adoption - Graviton migration - storage lifecycle optimization - workload right-sizing - commitment planning - cloud cost management tools - performance tuning - data platforms - large-scale infrastructure components - AI/ML infrastructure cost optimization --- Source: [Apply at cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cisco_Careers/job/Bangalore-India/Senior-Site-Reliability-Engineer_2015509-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)