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# Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $167,700.0 - $245,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Data Infrastructure, Data Security, DevOps, Distributed Data Store, Github, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Performance Tuning, Ansible, Private Cloud Environment, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Cloud Migration, Terraform, Stream Processing, Data Pipelines, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/770A9773622F40949B727BA271D39699/job/

## About the Role

* 8+ years hands on experience (deploy, monitor, scale, and upgrades) with distributed database technology such as CassandraDB, Opensearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL
 * 5+ Years managing AWS infrastructure at scale.
 * 5+ Years experience with infrastructure automation and DevOps practices such as CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes), Python
 * 5+ years experience supporting live production systems for customer facing software as a service
 * 3+ years of experience leading technical projects, including responsibility for task estimation, milestone tracking, and stakeholder communication processes.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Exposure to modern data platforms including data pipelines, streaming systems, AL/ML and GenAI workloads
 * Experience writing data driven applications in Java or Python and familiarity with data access patterns in software
 * Experience in regulated US Federal environments

## Description

Some of the things you will work on:

 * Architect & Deploy: ** ** Design and implement large-scale solutions for Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch across hybrid environments (AWS & Private Cloud).
 * Automate Everything: ** ** Lead cloud engineering projects using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes to improve service reliability and deployment velocity.
 * Scale & Optimize: ** ** Lead capacity planning and performance tuning for high-throughput production systems.
 * Ensure Integrity: ** ** Manage automated workflows for backups, security patching, and incident management with a focus on quality assurance in live environments.
 * Stakeholder Leadership: Act as a consultant to application teams, guiding them on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies.


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