This role pays more than
91%
of similar roles. Most pay
$162,000–$262,600
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$307k
versus about
$212k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Cisco
Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity
Cisco currently has
240 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$167,700–$245,200
across 187 roles with salary data.
As the Director, Cloud Engineering and Operations, you will join the Enterprise AI Platforms & Infrastructure team to lead the strategy, engineering, and operational excellence of a multi-cloud ecosystem involving AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. You will manage a large-scale organization focused on infrastructure, security, developer velocity, and financial efficiency while driving cloud governance, compliance, and FinOps economics. Your daily work involves moving toward autonomous, AI-native infrastructure and ensuring 24/7 operational resilience for complex hybrid-cloud environments. The role requires expertise in SRE practices, Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CI/CD automation, and observability platforms like Splunk, Datadog, and Prometheus/Grafana. You will solve technical challenges related to large-scale platform migrations and agentic workflows while managing the infrastructure stack including data centers, GPU clusters, and storage for internal product business units.
AI Infrastructure
Data Center Architecture
HPC
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
RDMA
InfiniBand
Ethernet
Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
Distributed Systems
Cluster Management
Network Automation
Power Distribution
Thermal Management
Capacity Planning
Observability
Firmware
Silicon