Cisco
Senior Cloud Engineer
$149K–$282K
Milpitas, California, US · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in each of the specified database, AWS infrastructure, DevOps/automation, and production SaaS areas; 3+ years leading technical projects.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree
About the job
Architects and operates large-scale distributed data services across AWS and private cloud, improving their scalability, performance, and reliability while advising application teams on data access and cloud migration.
What you'll do
- Deploy, monitor, scale, and upgrade distributed data technologies; automate infrastructure and optimize systems for performance.
- Improve production reliability through automated backups, security patching, and incident management.
- Guide application teams on data access patterns and cloud migration; lead technical projects and coordinate milestones and stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 5+ years hands-on experience with a distributed database technology, including deployment, monitoring, scaling, and upgrades.
- 5+ years managing AWS infrastructure at scale and 5+ years with infrastructure automation and DevOps practices, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and Python.
- 5+ years supporting live production systems for customer-facing SaaS; 3+ years leading technical projects.
Nice to have
- Exposure to data pipelines, streaming systems, AI/ML, or GenAI workloads.
- Experience writing data-driven applications in Java or Python; experience in regulated US Federal environments.
Pay
$167,700.00 to $245,200.00 USD base salary; $167,700.00 - $282,000.00 USD base salary (New York City Metro Area); $149,100.00 - $250,900.00 USD base salary (Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)
Tools
Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Python
AI focus
Preferred exposure to AI/ML and GenAI workloads in modern data platforms.
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