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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
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As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the ThousandEyes team, you will lead the design and management of large-scale, highly available distributed systems to ensure the performance, reliability, and security of a SaaS platform. You will build out automated service operations including deployment, chaos testing, and "everything-as-code" strategies to manage a multi-region, microservice-based architecture. Your daily work involves resolving operational obstacles and managing substantial data volumes within a digital experience assurance platform. To succeed, you must be proficient in software development using Python or Go, with a strong understanding of Unix/Linux systems and Site Reliability principles like Incident Response and SLOs. You will utilize cloud-native tools including AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Service Mesh to maintain infrastructure stability while ensuring the system remains scalable under heavy demand.
Design and manage large-scale, highly available distributed systems for the SaaS platform.
Deploy resilient AWS cloud-native services to ensure performance and reliability.
Utilize Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Service Mesh to standardize operations across multi-region architectures.
Develop automation for service operations including deployment, chaos testing, and "everything-as-code" strategies.
Identify and resolve operational obstacles to maintain system scalability under high data volumes.
Implement security protocols throughout the entire development and deployment lifecycle.
Manage incident response, change management, and service level objectives (SLOs).
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree plus 7 years of experience, Master's plus 4 years, or PhD plus 1 year of related experience is required.
Proficiency in software development using languages such as Python or Go is required.
Ability to build and implement scalable, well-tested, and security-focused solutions is required.
Strong understanding of Unix/Linux systems including kernels, system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols is required.
Knowledge of Site Reliability principles including Incident Response, Change Management, Distributed Systems, Deployment Strategies, and SLOs is required.
Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem is preferred.
In-depth knowledge of cloud providers, preferably AWS, is preferred.
Excellent communication and documentation skills are preferred.
Site Reliability Engineering
AWS
Kubernetes
Python
Go
Java
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
CloudWatch
Splunk
Datadog
Dynatrace
Bash
PowerShell
FedRAMP
Distributed Systems
Load Balancing
DNS