We believe in operations/infrastructure/everything as code which makes our distributed team efficient, functional and very effective.
Join forces with the software engineers to ensure that the ThousandEyes platform's Federal region infrastructure and services are designed and optimized for availability, latency, and performance.
Design, implementation, and management of FedRAMP-compliant infrastructure and systems.
Establish and maintain processes for continuous monitoring, logging, and auditing of systems to ensure compliance with FedRAMP controls.
Collaborate and partner with security teams to identify and remediate vulnerabilities, conduct security assessments, and implement necessary security controls.
Design and implement dynamic infrastructure. Solutions to run our platform's infrastructure as we grow and continue scaling (think multi-region scale).
Drive and build automation enabling our infrastructure and platforms to scale effortlessly, with a special focus on FedRAMP systems.
Know the latest industry best practices, evolving security threats, and updates to FedRAMP guidelines, and apply this knowledge to improve the security posture of our systems.
Design, deploy, and maintain cloud-native services in AWS that are elastic and resilient to failure.
Participate in and contribute to improving our 24x7 incident response and on-call rotation.
Capacity planning for the infrastructure and platform and help teams prepare for growth.
Requirements
Experience building and/or operating FedRAMP environments.
Solid understanding of the FedRAMP framework, its controls, and compliance requirements.
Ability to write high-quality code in Python, Go, or equivalent languages.
Good understanding of Unix/Linux systems, the kernel, system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
Knowledge of cloud providers, ideally AWS.
Infrastructure as Code skills, ideally with Terraform, Puppet, and Kubernetes.
Good Communication and documentation skills.
Solid sense of ownership, drive, and enthusiastic attention to detail.
Ability to build and implement scalable and well-tested solutions.
Experience identifying and analyzing cyber security risks.
Familiarity with security standard processes, vulnerability management, and incident response processes.
Why Cisco?
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Additional Information
The application window is expected to close on: 07/09/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received .
As part of this role, you will be responsible for maintaining services in a FedRAMP compliant environment, therefore, must be a U.S. citizen. This position may also 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 Cisco ThousandEyes FedRAMP team builds and operates our US GovCloud platform. This team is responsible for architecting, delivering, and maintaining our FedRAMP offering.
Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network - even the ones they don't own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues - before they impact end- user experiences.
ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco's leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios
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