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Cisco

Technical Leader, SIte Reliability Engineer

$192K–$356K

San Francisco, California, US · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026

Experience
12+ years in large-scale distributed systems; 7+ years operating production Kubernetes platforms.
Education
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience).
Visa sponsorship
The position can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

About the job

Leads the design and operation of Cisco’s Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-premises environments, improving reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity.

What you'll do

  • Lead Kubernetes platform design, implementation, and optimization across cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Drive reliability and developer-productivity initiatives using Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps; partner with engineering, security, and product teams on platform roadmaps.
  • Provide technical leadership during incidents, architecture reviews, and platform transformations, and mentor engineers.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience).
  • 12+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production, including leading cross-organizational platform initiatives.
  • 7+ years operating production Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native infrastructure, including multi-cluster environments; expertise across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem or hybrid clouds.
  • Experience with Kubernetes networking architectures, CNI and service mesh; Terraform and ArgoCD; and SRE practices including SLOs/SLIs, incident management, production readiness reviews, and automated remediation.

Nice to have

  • Experience migrating monolithic applications to microservices; foundational networking knowledge such as switching, routing, Wi-Fi, or IoT.
  • Advanced observability knowledge and experience reducing toil through automation and self-service developer platforms.

Pay

$214,100.00 to $309,800.00 USD (salary range; not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits); $214,100.00 - $356,300.00 USD (full salary range); $192,400.00 - $317,200.00 USD (full salary range)

Tools

Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, CNI, Terraform, ArgoCD, GitOps

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First seen Oct 16, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)