Senior Cloud Engineer

Cisco•Milpitas, MI

12d•Onsite

About The Position

The application window is expected to close on: 10/12/2026. This position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil. Meet the Team: Cisco’s Collaboration Business Unit empowers people and organizations worldwide to connect, communicate, and innovate seamlessly. You will collaborate with a global team of software engineers and SREs responsible for delivering extraordinary collaboration experiences at scale. Our team supports backend services deployed worldwide and works closely with development, product, and operations partners to ensure reliability and performance. Webex is powering the shift to the hybrid workforce, helping people stay connected in a rapidly evolving digital world. We cultivate a startup-like culture that values innovation, ownership, and collaboration, while offering the scale and impact of a global technology leader. Your Impact: As a distributed big data enthusiast, you’ll architect and deploy resilient, large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private cloud environments. You’ll automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, optimize high-throughput systems for scale and performance, and strengthen reliability through automated backups, security patching, and incident management. As a trusted technical partner, you’ll also guide application teams on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies.

Requirements

Bachelors and 8+ years hands on experience (deploy, monitor, scale, and upgrades) with a distributed database technology such as CassandraDB, Opensearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL, or Redis.
5+ Years managing AWS infrastructure at scale.
5+ Years experience with infrastructure automation and DevOps practices such as CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes), Python
5+ years experience supporting live production systems for customer facing software as a service
3+ years of experience leading technical projects, including responsibility for task estimation, milestone tracking, and stakeholder communication processes.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to modern data platforms including data pipelines, streaming systems, AL/ML and GenAI workloads
Experience writing data driven applications in Java or Python and familiarity with data access patterns in software
Experience in regulated US Federal environments

Responsibilities

Architect and deploy resilient, large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private cloud environments.
Automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
Optimize high-throughput systems for scale and performance.
Strengthen reliability through automated backups, security patching, and incident management.
Guide application teams on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies.

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
paid time away
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (non-exempt)
flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
annual bonuses
performance-based incentive pay
restricted stock units