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Lead Site Reliability Engineer, FedRAMP - ThousandEyes

Cisco San Francisco, California Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$214,100 - $309,800 per year

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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

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