Cisco
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Hybrid)
$149K–$282K
San Francisco, California, US +2 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California, US
San Jose, California, US
New York, New York, US - Experience
- 7+ years with a Bachelor's degree; 4+ years with a Masters; 1 year with a PhD; or equivalent related experience. At least 4 years in SRE, Platform / Cloud / Infrastructure Engineering, or related fields; 3+ years operating Kubernetes in production.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree, or a Masters with 4+ years’ experience, or a PhD with 1 year of experience; equivalent related experience is also accepted.
About the job
Build and operate reliable, scalable deployment infrastructure for Splunk Agent Observability across cloud and air-gapped customer environments.
What you'll do
- Operate and improve Kubernetes-based production infrastructure and customer deployments, including installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
- Develop deployment observability, automation, internal tools, and infrastructure improvements; respond to incidents and perform root cause analysis.
- Partner with engineering teams and customers to design secure, reliable deployment architectures and debug production issues.
What they ask for
- 7+ years’ experience with a Bachelor's degree or 4+ yrs with a Masters or 1 year with a PhD, or equivalent related experience; at least 4 years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform / Cloud / Infrastructure Engineering, or related fields.
- 3+ years’ operating Kubernetes in production; experience with Helm.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD platforms and deployment automation.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms.
Nice to have
- Experience with MLOps.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
Pay
$167,700.00 to $245,200.00 (starting salary range; salary) ; $167,700.00 - $282,000.00 (salary) ; $149,100.00 - $250,900.00 (salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, AWS, GCP, Python, Go, Terraform
AI focus
Supports AI agent resilience by operating the deployment platform and production infrastructure for Splunk Agent Observability.
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