Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability

Cisco

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Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CANashville, TNBoise, ID
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Full-time
Posted
22 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Dec 18, 2026

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Observability joins the Observability team within Cloud Network Platform Engineering’s Site Reliability Engineering organization. This role involves designing, building, and operating enterprise observability platforms for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting across large-scale cloud infrastructure. You will build and maintain Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, and Elasticsearch clusters while deploying distributed tracing platforms using Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry. Key responsibilities include developing telemetry pipelines, defining instrumentation standards, and automating infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible. You will use Splunk SPL, Kibana, Prometheus, Kafka, and languages like Python, Go, and Bash to improve visibility and reduce incident detection times. The work focuses on Kubernetes-based platform workloads, specifically Nextunnel, to enhance reliability and operational excellence across the cloud environment through production support and incident response.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

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What you'll do

  • Design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability platforms for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
  • Build and maintain Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud infrastructure including indexers and search head clusters.
  • Deploy and manage large-scale Elasticsearch clusters for log analytics and operational troubleshooting.
  • Design and support distributed tracing platforms using Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry.
  • Build end-to-end telemetry pipelines and define instrumentation standards, data quality, and retention policies.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and upgrades using Terraform and configuration management tools.
  • Troubleshoot complex distributed-systems issues and lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
  • Participate in a shared SRE pager and on-call rotation for production services.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a related field.
  • Must have experience administering Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud in a production environment.
  • Must have experience designing, deploying, and operating Elasticsearch or ELK-based platforms.
  • Must have experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and Kafka.
  • Must have experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
  • Must have programming or scripting experience in Python, Go, Ruby, Bash, or a similar language.
  • Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or U.S. national) to work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments.
  • Splunk certification (preferred).

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