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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $128,600.0 - $184,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Infrastructure, Data Security, DevOps, Distributed Data Store, Github, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Cisco WebEx, System Availability, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Cloud Migration, Terraform, Stream Processing, Data Pipelines, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3373897105&tx=KJ2929FFP&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## 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., * 5+ years hands on experience (deploy, monitor, scale, and upgrades) with distributed database technology such as CassandraDB, Opensearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL

 * 3+ Years managing AWS infrastructure at scale.
 * 3+ 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
 * 3+ years experience supporting live production systems for customer facing software as a service
 * 2+ years of experience leading technical projects, including responsibility for design, development, testing and implementation

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

You'll work with a globally distributed team of database experts, technical leads, architects, and security teams across the Webex portfolio. Together, you'll maintain high availability, support US Federal compliance, and participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation during your region's daytime hours.

Your impact

Design and implement large-scale solutions for Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch across hybrid AWS and private cloud environments. Lead cloud engineering initiatives using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes to improve service reliability, deployment velocity, and operational efficiency.

Drive capacity planning and performance tuning for high-throughput production systems while ensuring data integrity through automated backup, security patching, and incident management workflows. Partner with application teams as a technical consultant, providing guidance on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies.


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