Technical Leader, SIte Reliability Engineer

This position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

Meet the Team

The Platform Engineering organization is responsible for building and operating the foundational cloud-native platforms that power engineering across Cisco Network Platform. Our team owns the Kubernetes ecosystem used by thousands of developers, spanning hundreds of clusters across public and on-premise environments. We provide the infrastructure, automation, observability, security, and self-service capabilities that enable product teams to build and operate services reliably at scale. We are a highly collaborative team of SREs who enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges. Our culture emphasizes ownership, operational excellence, automation, and continuous improvement. This is an opportunity to shape the future of Kubernetes and platform engineering within Cisco Network Platform while influencing the experience of engineers across the company.

Your Impact

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our Kubernetes platform capabilities across cloud and on-premises environments, supporting mission-critical workloads at scale.
• Drive technical initiatives that improve reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity for hundreds of engineering teams using Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps.
• Partner with engineering, security, and product teams to execute platform roadmaps and deliver on company-critical reliability goals.
• Provide technical leadership during major incidents, architecture reviews, platform transformations, and strategic infrastructure investments.
• Mentor senior engineers and help raise the engineering bar through hands-on technical leadership, code/design reviews, operational excellence, and automated remediation.

Minimum Qualifications

* Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) and 12+ years of experience designin