Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability
Cisco
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This role pays more than 66% of similar roles. Most pay $146,837–$216,287 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $206k versus about $182k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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 307 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $167,700–$245,000 across 224 roles with salary data.
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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 provisioning using Terraform and configuration management tools. You will utilize Splunk SPL, Grafana, Kibana, Kafka, and Kubernetes to improve visibility and reduce incident detection times. The work focuses on production services, specifically Kubernetes-based platform workloads like Nextunnel, to strengthen operational excellence and reliability across the cloud environment through proactive monitoring and incident response.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.
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