Cisco Silicon One is seeking DevOps Engineer
Meet the Team
Join the Cisco Silicon One team, where we are building a unified silicon architecture for web-scale and service provider networks. You will work in a multi-geography silicon organization that combines the energy and ownership of a startup with the scale and reach of Cisco. Our engineers collaborate across ASIC, hardware board, software infrastructure, IT, and lab teams to help deliver high-performance networking technology. This is a growth-driven environment for engineers who enjoy solving infrastructure problems that directly affect development velocity and operational excellence.
Your Impact
As a DevOps Infrastructure Engineer, you will help accelerate development by building, maintaining, and improving robust, scalable, and highly stable infrastructure. Your work across CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, observability, databases, and system optimization will directly improve the speed and reliability of software delivery. You will make it easier for engineering teams to deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and iterate while maintaining strong operational standards. You will build and automate the systems that power software delivery:
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and support infrastructure as code workflows with Puppet and Ansible.
- Deploy, operate, and improve containerized services using Docker, Kubernetes, and related technologies.
- Develop and improve on-prem Linux images and infrastructure automation for data center and hybrid environments.
- Build and operate observability systems using Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, ELK/OpenSearch, and related tools.
- Design dashboards, alerts, and SLO/SLI frameworks that provide real-time visibility into pipelines, labs, and infrastructure.
- Develop data collection pipelines and exporters to ingest metrics, logs, and traces from across the organization.
- Own anomaly detection and incident-response tooling, with a focus on reducing mean time to detect and mean time to recover.
- Administer MySQL and time-series data stores, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, backups, replication, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
- Partner with software, IT, and lab teams to define monitoring requirements, improve workflows, and keep runbooks, design documents, and operational documentation current.
- Apply security best practices for database access, data retention, and monitoring infrastructure.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or a related role.
- Strong Linux administration fundamentals with experience in on-prem data center or hybrid cloud environments.
- Proficiency with Bash and Python for automation, tooling, and operational workflows.
- Experience with configuration management, infrastructure as code, or GitOps workflows using tools such as Puppet, Ansible, ArgoCD, Flux, or similar.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring or observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, or similar, and containerization technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or similar.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- DBA experience with MySQL, including schema design, query optimization, replication, backup, and recovery.
- Experience with log aggregation, time-series, or analytical data platforms such as ELK/OpenSearch, Loki, Splunk, InfluxDB, ClickHouse, or similar.
- Experience building dashboards, alerting rules, data pipelines, metrics exporters, and incident-response workflows.
- Knowledge of CI/CD implementation practices, Docker and Kubernetes operations, networking, storage management, and tools such as Artifactory, Redis, Percona XtraBackup, or PMM.
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Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
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