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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Site Reliability Engineer - Networking - **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc. - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Salary:** $165,000.0 - $241,400.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Border Gateway Protocol, Unix, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Computer Networks, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Software Debugging, DevOps, Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Networks, IPv6, Python (Programming Language), Network Security, Network Architecture, Network Connections, Network Functions Virtualization, Cisco Nexus Switches, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Reliability Engineering, Software Tools, Ansible, Ruby, Scripting, Transport Layer Security, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, HybridCloud, Kubernetes, Firepower, Software Coding, Restful APIs, Splunk, Cisco, Docker, Golang - **Published:** July 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gjn8v4 ## About the Role The successful applicant may be performing work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil. The successful applicant may be performing work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil., * Bachelors + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience. You are an ideal candidate if you: * Can demonstrate experience in designing, deploying and operating mid to large scale enterprise or cloud environments. * Feel comfortable with scripting or coding with languages like Python, Bash, Ruby, Go * Know your way around *nix systems and have interests that span beyond routers and switches * Daringly jump into other people's solutions and source code to seek a problem. * Like to Automate all the things! * You care and empathize with the customer experience and can support an externally facing production environment. * Are passionate about building complex solutions working alongside other engineering teams * Empathize with coworkers and have a positive influence on others. * Are comfortable using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor to support coding, code reviews, troubleshooting, testing, documentation, and incident investigation. * You have experience with: BGP, OSPF, IPv6, Network Security, DMVPN, MACSec, Grafana, Splunk, advanced Unix/Linux, system administration, scripting/Bash/Ruby/Python, project management experience, AWS/Azure, Docker, K8s, Ansible, REST APIs, TLS or Cloud/ISP/Telco exposure. Preferred Qualifications * Understand agent-based workflows, including reusable skills and MCP integrations, and can critically evaluate AI-generated output for accuracy, security, reliability, and maintainability. * Keywords: Network Engineering, Production Engineering, SRE, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, CCNP, CCIE, JNCP, JNCIE ## Description As SREs at Cisco Meraki, we are responsible for building and growing the cloud that supports these customers and their networks. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be focused on supporting a specific, highly available, and very secure production environment. You will analyze the reliability of our environments, use your networking and coding skills to improve the way we operate, and debug complex events as part of a 24/7 on-call rotation. This role will work with BGP, AWS Cloud Networking components, the Cisco Nexus family of switches and Cisco Firepower appliances. 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