Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Serves as an experienced professional resource, independently applying best practices and business knowledge to improve products or services while guiding and supporting less experienced colleagues.
• Understands project and/or department needs and establishes relationships with appropriate cross-functional partners to gather input, collect information, and complete work steps.
• Designs and deploys small to mid-size or moderately complex solutions to optimize reliability, availability, latency, and performance.
• Builds automated platforms and applies design, deployment, and coding expertise to enhance reliability, scalability, and velocity; designs and tests high availability and disaster recovery measures across regions and customers.
• Forecasts and builds reports to determine at what point resources will be at capacity.
• Designs and implements tools to monitor and provide transparency into the performance and reliability of our infrastructure; collaborates with Developers and Ops to identify issues, serves as on-call SRE, and leads post mortems and root cause analyses.
• Builds and ensures security controls are in place in architectural design, collaborates with security in designing or reviewing security controls, and may actively contribute in security incident response.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of technical expertise with cloud databases and experience with Vector databases (such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or Milvus) and/or with at least two of the following: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB
• Experience with AI frameworks (OpenAI API, Langchain, etc)
• Experience with designing, administering, and maintaining Vector DB or Cloud DB architecture, including provisioning, upgrades, operations, backups, security, and performance
• Experience with CI/CD framework and tools like Git/Github, Jenkins
• Experience with automating DB tasks using Python, Database Lifecycle Management
• Experience with public cloud like AWS, GCP, or Azure, or container technologies like Kubernetes and Openshift
• Backend experience with Python or other programming skills
• Demonstrated experience in building scalable databases on hybrid cloud infrastructure
• Why Cisco?
• We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
• Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
• The starting salary range posted for this position is $137,000.00 to $200,500.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive c

Benefits

Additional Information

The application window is expected to close on: 06/29/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received . This role requires a hybrid work schedule with on-site attendance at the RTP, North Carolina campus. Meet the Team We are an agile team inside Cisco IT, building the next generation NoSQL and Vector Databases on cloud platforms that will be demonstrated by all of Cisco as we move to cloud native applications. This is a small team of highly motivated individuals demonstrating Agile scrum methodology. Our team is responsible for building and operating Hybrid Cloud Database services in a DevSecOps model. We move at a fast pace and are passionate about cloud and automation. We have a history of building clouds at a large scale and are looking for someone who as passionate about it as we are.

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