# Cloud Database Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: RTP, North Carolina or Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,300.00 to $203,600.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to join our agile team inside Cisco IT, building next-generation NoSQL and Vector Databases on cloud platforms.

In this role, you will ensure production services are scalable, resilient, high-performing, and secure. You'll support uptime through an On-Call rotation, monitoring, and alerting to meet SLOs and SLAs. Reliability is strengthened by conducting Disaster Recovery drills and managing incidents,investigating root causes, applying remediation, and driving continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities:

- Designs and deploys small to mid-size or moderately complex solutions to optimize reliability, availability, latency, and performance

- Builds automated platforms and applies design, deployment, and coding expertise to enhance reliability, scalability, and velocity

- Designs and tests high availability and disaster recovery measures across regions and customers

- Forecasts and builds reports to determine at what point resources will be at capacity

- Collaborates with Developers and Ops to identify issues, serves as on-call SRE, and leads post mortems and root cause analyses

- Builds and ensures security controls are in place in architectural design, collaborates with security in designing or reviewing security controls

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

- 7+ years of technical expertise with cloud databases and experience with Vector databases (such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or Milvus) and/or with at least two of the following: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB

- Experience with AI frameworks (OpenAI API, Langchain, etc)

- Experience with designing, administering, and maintaining Vector DB or Cloud DB architecture, including provisioning, upgrades, operations, backups, security, and performance

- Experience with CI/CD framework and tools like Git/Github, Jenkins

- Experience with automating DB tasks using Python, Database Lifecycle Management

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with public cloud like AWS, GCP, or Azure, or container technologies like Kubernetes and Openshift

- Backend experience with Python or other programming skills

- Demonstrated experience in building scalable databases on hybrid cloud infrastructure

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 (vacation, holidays, sick time)

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary range: $139,300.00 to $203,600.00

## Skills

### Required
- cloud databases
- Vector databases
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- AI frameworks
- CI/CD framework
- Python
- Database Lifecycle Management

### Nice to have
- public cloud
- container technologies
- scalable databases on hybrid cloud infrastructure

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