Site Reliability Engineer , Engineering Enablement (Remote)

Cisco•Boston, MA

8d•Remote

About The Position

The SRE Engineering Enablement Team supports our CI Platforms, Developer Environments, tools, automation and processes that facilitate developers’ day-to-day work. We support the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), including core developer tools and environments, build tools, code review, artifact management, CI, education, and documentation. Our customers are all engineers at Cisco. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be at the epicenter of our engineering transformation, where your technical decisions will have a direct, measurable impact on how our teams operate. You will be responsible for architecting the next generation of our developer platform, ensuring that our infrastructure is not just functional, but a catalyst for innovation. enable our engineers to easily, safely, and confidently experiment on and build great products.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in STEM and 5+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree in STEM and 3+ years of relevant experience or equivalent related work experience
3+ years of professional experience writing production-grade code in Python or Ruby, specifically focused on tooling or automation
3+ years of experience managing infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) in environments supporting 500+ nodes or complex, high-frequency CI/CD pipelines.
Have experience with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions.
Experience building and supporting tools for a quickly growing engineering organization (1500+ and growing).
Must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee) due to work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments.
May perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a hybrid cloud environment (bare metal, container orchestration, and managed cloud services).
Background in containerization technologies Docker, Kubernetes
Familiarity with DORA and SPACE published DevOps measurement metrics.
Deep interest in running highly resilient/scalable systems with an "owner/operator" mindset.
Proven ability to quickly learn and dive into new or unfamiliar technologies within a diverse toolset.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and platform evolution of critical infrastructure for building, testing, and deploying our cloud applications.
Spearhead the consolidation of disparate legacy tools into a modern, cohesive, and scalable developer platform.
Influence and drive operational excellence within the organization.
Learn and understand the priorities and practices of other engineering teams to design systems that work for them.
Work on cross-functional initiatives within Cloud Engineering and with non-technical stakeholders.
Practice sustainable incident responses (on call rotation) and blameless postmortems.

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
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (for non-exempt employees)
flexible vacation time off program (for exempt employees)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
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 (for non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)