Site Reliability Engineer-Java

Cisco Systems, Inc.•Durham, NC

33d

About The Position

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back. Meet the Team Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer, more resilient digital world with an end-to-end, full stack platform designed for hybrid, multi-cloud environments. Join the FedRAMP team where you will be a part of one of the largest and most sophisticated cloud-scale, Bigdata, and microservices platforms in the world. You will be working with engineers who operate highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient applications with low operational burden by handling and improving the reliability and resiliency of services and infrastructure. You thrive driving initiatives on automation, infrastructure-as-code, reliability engineering, and getting rid of tedious, manual tasks. Your Impact Splunk's FedRAMP SRE team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help lead, design and build the next generation of our large scale cloud offering. You will be working on core services and applications that form the primitives for our current and future cloud service offerings. Site Reliability Engineers in this role will be engaging with multiple service owners across the platform to teach and implement modern interpretations of SRE, observability, Chaos Engineering and DevOps. This role is highly visible and impactful to the organization and will help shape Splunk's Engineering culture for years to come. Your job, in a nutshell, is to make every team around you better... including your own!

Requirements

You have experience or an interest in working with regulated computing environments such as FISMA and/or FedRAMP and are enthusiastic about doing it better.
You have worked with Kubernetes, EKS, GKE or AKS and the associated ecosystems. Kubernetes' certifications or an interest in obtaining these certifications are a plus, such as those from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation; Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).
You have a good understanding of Linux systems (network stack, file system, OS services) and networking (L2 vs. L3, network architecture, VLANs, etc)
Experience with at least one programming language, preferably java. Knowledge of working with and automating Linux systems tasks using this language is required, including working with configuration files and system services. Knowledge of common data structures and algorithms, as well as their performance characteristics is required.
Skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and resolving root cause of service issues.

Nice To Haves

Experience monitoring cloud environments with Splunk.
Experience with development and deployment in a hosted cloud environment, preferably AWS, Azure or GCP. Cloud certifications are a plus or an interest in obtaining these certifications, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or Google Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE).
Experience with large scale distributed cloud service development, infrastructure, traffic management and architecture.
Experience with distributed architectures/systems with optimized and scalable software that operates on a large number of nodes.

Responsibilities

Own Splunk Cloud in FedRAMP environments.
Work across the organization to deliver quality products that delight Splunk's passionate users.
Work with teams of tight-knit engineers who are building a state-of-the-art, cloud-based environment for massive-scale data processing.

Benefits

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies: 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
Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
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

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