SRE Database Administrator (DBA) (Hybrid)

Cisco • Research Triangle Park, NC

1d • $139,300 - $203,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role is for an agile team inside Cisco IT, focused on building the next generation NoSQL and Vector Databases on cloud platforms. The team operates using Agile scrum methodology and is responsible for building and operating Hybrid Cloud Database services in a DevSecOps model. They work at a fast pace, are passionate about cloud and automation, and have a history of building clouds at a large scale. The position requires a hybrid work schedule with two days per week on-site at Cisco's RTP, North Carolina or Austin, Texas office.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 7+ years of technical expertise with cloud databases
• Experience with Vector databases (such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or Milvus)
• Experience with at least two of the following: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB
• Experience with AI frameworks (OpenAI API, Langchain, etc)
• Experience with designing, administering, and maintaining Vector DB or Cloud DB architecture, including provisioning, upgrades, operations, backups, security, and performance
• Experience with CI/CD framework and tools like Git/Github, Jenkins
• Experience with automating DB tasks using Python, Database Lifecycle Management

Nice To Haves

• Experience with public cloud like AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience with container technologies like Kubernetes and Openshift
• Backend experience with Python or other programming skills
• Demonstrated experience in building scalable databases on hybrid cloud infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Ensure production services are scalable, resilient, high-performing, and secure.
• Support uptime through an On-Call rotation, monitoring, and alerting to meet SLOs and SLAs.
• Conduct Disaster Recovery drills and manage incidents, including investigating root causes, applying remediation, and driving continuous improvement.
• Define reliability and security requirements for systems and components to meet company, customer, and regulatory objectives.
• Automate repetitive tasks and mitigate failure points to enhance operational efficiency.
• Develop tools and techniques for early detection of issues in products, packaging, processes, and product reliability.
• Serve as an experienced professional resource, applying best practices and business knowledge to improve products or services while guiding and supporting less experienced colleagues.
• Understand project and/or department needs and establish relationships with appropriate cross-functional partners to gather input, collect information, and complete work steps.
• Design and deploy small to mid-size or moderately complex solutions to optimize reliability, availability, latency, and performance.
• Build automated platforms and apply design, deployment, and coding expertise to enhance reliability, scalability, and velocity; design and test high availability and disaster recovery measures across regions and customers.
• Forecast and build reports to determine at what point resources will be at capacity.
• Design and implement tools to monitor and provide transparency into the performance and reliability of our infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Developers and Ops to identify issues, serve as on-call SRE, and lead post mortems and root cause analyses.
• Build and ensure security controls are in place in architectural design.
• Collaborate with security in designing or reviewing security controls.
• Actively contribute in security incident response.

Benefits

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• 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 (non-exempt)
• flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
• 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
• 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)
• grants of Cisco restricted stock units

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior