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# Senior Cloud Engineer (DBRE)

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Milpitas, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $167,700.0 - $245,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Big Data, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Data Infrastructure, Data Security, DevOps, Distributed Data Store, Github, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Redis, Ansible, Private Cloud Environment, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Cloud Migration, Terraform, Stream Processing, Data Pipelines, OpenSearch, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3467044786&tx=VT6863TTI&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

* Bachelors Degree and 5+ years hands on experience (deploy, monitor, scale, and upgrades) with a distributed database technology such as CassandraDB, Opensearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL, or Redis.
 * Experience managing AWS infrastructure at scale.
 * 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
 * Experience supporting live production systems for customer facing software as a service
 * 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

As a distributed big data enthusiast, you'll architect and deploy resilient, large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private cloud environments. You'll automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, optimize high-throughput systems for scale and performance, and strengthen reliability through automated backups, security patching, and incident management. As a trusted technical partner, you'll also guide application teams on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies.