Description
Cisco’s Collaboration Business Unit empowers people and organizations worldwide to connect, communicate, and innovate seamlessly. You will collaborate with a global team of software engineers and SREs responsible for delivering extraordinary collaboration experiences at scale. Our team supports backend services deployed worldwide and works closely with development, product, and operations partners to ensure reliability and performance.
As a distributed big data enthusiast, you’ll architect and deploy resilient, large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private cloud environments. You’ll automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, optimize high-throughput systems for scale and performance, and strengthen reliability through automated backups, security patching, and incident management. As a trusted technical partner, you’ll also guide application teams on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies.
Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy resilient, large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private cloud environments.
- Automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
- Optimize high-throughput systems for scale and performance.
- Strengthen reliability through automated backups, security patching, and incident management.
- Guide application teams on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree and 5+ years hands on experience (deploy, monitor, scale, and upgrades) with a distributed database technology such as CassandraDB, Opensearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL, or Redis.
- Experience managing AWS infrastructure at scale.
- Experience with infrastructure automation and DevOps practices such as CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes), Python.
- Experience supporting live production systems for customer facing software as a service.
- Experience leading technical projects, including responsibility for task estimation, milestone tracking, and stakeholder communication processes.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance.
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
- Paid parental leave.
- Short and long-term disability coverage.
- Basic life insurance.
- Paid time away (10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees).
- Flexible vacation time off program.
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter.