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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Engineering... - **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc. - **Location:** Boston, MA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $163,600.0 - $234,600.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Software Debugging, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Ruby, Software Engineering, HybridCloud, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Bare Metal - **Published:** July 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gfyv7a ## 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., + Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree and 6+ years of relevant experience or equivalent related work experience + Have a software development background with 5+ years experience coding with languages like Ruby or Python. + Rapid technical adoption experience, evaluating and adopting new technologies with quick turnaround to address critical production gaps or security vulnerabilities. + Experience mentoring and providing technical oversight for a team + Experience with systems at scale, managing and operating distributed systems at a scale of 1,000+ nodes or high-concurrency environments with an owner/operator mindset. + Automation experience in configuration-as-code and infrastructure automation. + Have experience with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS + Experience in a hybrid cloud environment (we deploy to bare metal, container orchestration, and managed cloud services). + Experience building and supporting tools for a quickly growing engineering organization (2,000+ and growing). + Background in containerization. + Familiarity with DORA and SPACE published DevOps measurement metrics. + Believe that development and operations are best carried out in close co-operation; all our teams are developers, and own what they create. ## Description As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will architect, build, and evolve the developer experience for Meraki's Cloud Engineering teams. You will work within a team distributed across the US and UK and collaborate with other teams across SRE and Cloud Engineering. Your decisions will shape the day to day operations of Meraki's cloud, and enable our engineers to easily, safely, and confidently experiment on and build great products! + Lead the design and evolution of critical infrastructure for building, testing, and deploying our cloud applications. + Take the lead on complex problem resolution and debugging of internal and vendor-supplied tools. + 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. + Partner with engineering leadership to define roadmaps, reporting on productivity gains and platform health to the SVP level. ## Related Videos - [Coffee with Developers: David Heinemeier Hansson](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/875-coffee-with-developers-david-heinemeier-hansson) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [Coroutine explained yet again 60 years later](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/690-coroutine-explained-yet-again-60-years-later) - [Instant KAI Sandboxes with vCluster: Multi-Tenant, Multi-Scheduler GPU Sharing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100333-instant-kai-sandboxes-with-vcluster-multi-tenant-multi-scheduler-gpu-sharing) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [Best Countries for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/267-best-countries-for-software-engineers) - [Where to Find Entry-Level Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/397-where-to-find-entry-level-software-engineering-jobs)