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About the Role
The Platform Engineering organization builds and operates foundational cloud-native platforms for Cisco Network Platform, owning the Kubernetes ecosystem used by thousands of developers across public and on-premise environments. This role offers an opportunity to shape the future of Kubernetes and platform engineering within Cisco, influencing the experience of engineers across the company.
Responsibilities
- Architect and drive the evolution of Kubernetes platform strategy across cloud and on-premises environments supporting mission-critical workloads at scale.
- Lead the design and implementation of platform capabilities that improve reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity for hundreds of engineering teams.
- Partner with engineering, security, and product leaders to define multi-year platform roadmaps and drive execution of company-critical initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership during major incidents, architecture reviews, platform transformations, and strategic infrastructure investments.
- Mentor senior engineers and help raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, operational excellence, and architectural guidance.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience operating Kubernetes platforms in production, including multi-cluster environments.
- Experience architecting and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid cloud environments.
- Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting networking architectures for large-scale Kubernetes platforms, including CNI implementations, ingress and egress traffic management, service-to-service communication, multi-cluster connectivity, and network observability.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps technologies, including Terraform and ArgoCD or equivalent platforms.
- Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to effectively influence engineers, architects, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders.
- Proven track record leading cross-organizational platform initiatives and influencing technical strategy across multiple engineering teams.
- Experience implementing SRE practices, including SLOs, incident management, production readiness reviews, and operational excellence programs.
- Strong software engineering experience with Go, Python, or similar programming languages used for automation and platform development.
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Cloud-native infrastructure
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Hybrid cloud
- Networking architectures
- CNI implementations
- Ingress and egress traffic management
- Service-to-service communication
- Multi-cluster connectivity
- Network observability
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- GitOps
- Terraform
- ArgoCD
- Go
- Python
- SRE practices
- SLOs
- Incident management
- Production readiness reviews
- Operational excellence
Location
- U.S.
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Lead
Salary/Compensations
- $231,400.00 - $331,800.00 (U.S. and/or Canada)
- $231,400.00 - $381,600.00 (New York City Metro Area)
- $222,900.00 - $343,600.00 (Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short-term disability coverage
- Long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt)
- Flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- Annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
- Performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)
About the Company
- At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond.
- We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.
- These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
- Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions.
- Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless.
- We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.
- Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
- We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.