# Technical Leader, Site Reliability Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $214,100.00 to $309,800.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Platform Engineering organization at Cisco is seeking a Technical Leader, Site Reliability Engineer to join their team. The team is responsible for building and operating the foundational cloud-native platforms that power engineering across Cisco Network Platform.

As a Technical Leader, Site Reliability Engineer, you will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of Kubernetes platform capabilities across cloud and on-premises environments, supporting mission-critical workloads at scale. You will drive technical initiatives that improve reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity for hundreds of engineering teams using Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of Kubernetes platform capabilities

- Drive technical initiatives to improve reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity

- Partner with engineering, security, and product teams to execute platform roadmaps and deliver on company-critical reliability goals

- Provide technical leadership during major incidents, architecture reviews, platform transformations, and strategic infrastructure investments

- Mentor senior engineers and help raise the engineering bar

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems

- 7+ years of experience operating Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native infrastructure

- Prior experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting networking architectures for large-scale Kubernetes platforms

- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps technologies

- Experience implementing SRE practices

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with migrating monolithic applications to a microservices architecture

- Knowledge of foundational networking concepts

- Advanced knowledge of observability tools and implementing comprehensive monitoring strategies

- Experience driving toil reduction through advanced automation and self-service developer platforms

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

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary Range: $214,100.00 to $309,800.00

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- cloud-native infrastructure
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- GitOps
- Terraform
- ArgoCD
- SRE practices

### Nice to have
- microservices architecture
- foundational networking concepts
- observability tools
- automation
- self-service developer platforms

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