# AI Infrastructure Technical System Engineer and Technical Leader **Company**: Cisco **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $140,300.00 to $178,100.00 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cisco_Careers/job/RTP-North-Carolina-US/AI-Infrastructure-Technical-Systems-Engineer_2026031?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_b8370666-215 ## Description The Cisco IT AI Infrastructure team delivers high-performance compute (HPC) and accelerated AI infrastructure as a service across Cisco's global enterprise footprint. As an AI Infrastructure Technical System Engineer and Technical Leader, you will serve as the principal systems architect and technical authority for our enterprise AI platforms. You will establish architectural direction, spearhead complex infrastructure initiatives, mentor engineering talent, and bridge accelerated hardware capabilities with high-performance software execution. Key Responsibilities: - Architecture, Strategy & Capacity Engineering - Lead the architectural design, hardware qualification, capacity planning, and maintenance of large-scale bare-metal GPU clusters (NVIDIA/AMD). - Architect resilient, multi-tenant compute and control planes across bare-metal Kubernetes, enterprise container platforms (Red Hat OpenShift), and HPC cluster managers (NVIDIA BCM). - Collaborate with network engineering to design, benchmark, and optimize high-throughput, low-latency backend fabrics (RDMA, RoCEv2, 400G/800G). - Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps & SRE Automation - Champion Site Reliability Engineering to eliminate operational toil, drive autonomous self-healing, and uphold stringent Service Level Objectives (SLOs). - Architect IaC and GitOps deployment pipelines using Ansible, Terraform, Python, Go, and modern CI/CD tooling. - Oversee automated workflows for firmware baselines, BIOS/BMC configuration, kernel driver updates, platform upgrades, and certificate rotations. - AI Workload Orchestration & Systems Performance - Optimize distributed workload scheduling, fair-share queueing, and GPU quota governance across frameworks (Slurm, Kueue, Volcano, Ray). - Profile low-level systems performance, diagnosing device interconnect bottlenecks, bandwidth utilization, memory hierarchies, and compute efficiency. - Establish automated Day-2 diagnostics and recovery procedures for GPU degradation, driver anomalies, and hardware faults. - Observability, Governance & Technical Leadership - Architect end-to-end observability standards using OpenTelemetry (OTel), Prometheus, and Splunk to deliver role-specific visualization dashboards and anomaly detectors. - Serve as the senior escalation authority for high-impact incidents, leading root-cause analyses (RCAs) and aligning operations with ITIL frameworks. - Author architecture blueprints and standard operating procedures (SOPs); mentor and coach mid-level and senior engineers to foster a culture of innovation. Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related discipline with 5 plus of progressive experience in enterprise systems engineering, HPC, AI infrastructure, or SRE. - Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash, with extensive experience building declarative automation (Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, GitOps). - Advanced expertise designing and administering production Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, and HPC workload managers (Slurm, Kueue, Volcano, Ray). - Strong hands-on understanding of AI backend network fabrics, RDMA technologies (RoCEv2), and high-speed multi-hundred-gigabit network topologies. - In-depth knowledge of enterprise Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu), kernel module lifecycle, memory subsystems, GPU device drivers, and out-of-band management (Redfish, IPMI). Preferred Qualifications: - Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or an additional 2+ years of equivalent specialized engineering experience). - 3+ years of experience managing enterprise server platforms at scale (e.g., environments with 500+ nodes), including automated hardware provisioning and centralized infrastructure management solutions. - 2+ years of hands-on experience deploying, troubleshooting, and optimizing heterogeneous GPU software stacks (e.g., NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm) and executing GPU validation suites in production environments. - 3+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise secrets management architectures (e.g., HashiCorp Vault) and integrating identity federation protocols (OIDC, SAML, SSO) across multiple production applications. - Possession of at least one active, current industry-recognized advanced certification (e.g., CKA/CKS, RHCA/RHCE, or advanced networking credentials). - Demonstrable record of active contributions (e.g., verifiable authored commits, merged pull requests, or published technical documentation) to open-source infrastructure projects, Kubernetes SIGs, HPC scheduling communities, or telemetry frameworks. 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 - 10 paid holidays per full calendar year - Flexible vacation time off program - Sick time off - Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer - Annual bonuses for non-sales roles - Performance-based incentive pay for sales roles ## Skills ### Required - Python - Go - Bash - Ansible - Terraform - Kubernetes - Red Hat OpenShift - Slurm - Kueue - Volcano - Ray - OpenTelemetry - Prometheus - Splunk ### Nice to have - Master’s degree in Computer Science - Computer Engineering - Experience managing enterprise server platforms - Heterogeneous GPU software stacks - Secrets management architectures - Identity federation protocols - Industry-recognized advanced certification --- Source: [Apply at cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cisco_Careers/job/RTP-North-Carolina-US/AI-Infrastructure-Technical-Systems-Engineer_2026031?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)