# Lead Site Reliability Engineer, FedRAMP - ThousandEyes

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

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## Description

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, FedRAMP - ThousandEyes, you will be responsible for maintaining services in a FedRAMP compliant environment. You will lead the operations and architecture of the mission-critical Federal region, ensuring peak availability, performance, and security for high-volume data streams.

You will implement an "everything-as-code" strategy to design and manage resilient AWS cloud-native services while maintaining rigorous compliance with FedRAMP standards through continuous auditing and automated security controls.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Collaborating with other technical leaders to advance the best strategy and implementation

- Optimising infrastructure for multi-region scale and addressing complex operational challenges

- Setting the standard for the rest of the team to follow by example

- Guiding the strategy, implementation, and accountability of the broader engineering effort

- Introducing new ideas and bringing them to life

The Cisco ThousandEyes FedRAMP team builds and operates the US GovCloud platform, architecting, delivering, and maintaining the FedRAMP offering.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree + 12 years of experience, or Master's degree + 8 years of experience, or PhD

- Experience building or operating infrastructure within regulated environments, including FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or SOC2

- Experience coding in Python and utilising Terraform for Infrastructure as Code in production

- Experience using Kubernetes or equivalent containers

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives involving multiple engineering or technical teams

- Experience collaborating and communicating with detailed documentation delivery

- Experience identifying and analysing cyber security risks

- Experience with security standard processes, vulnerability management, and incident response 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, including 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

- 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

**Salary Range:**

- $214,100.00 - $309,800.00 per year

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- FedRAMP
- HIPAA
- PCI-DSS
- SOC2

### Nice to have
- leadership
- communication
- cyber security
- vulnerability management
- incident response

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