# Senior Technical Leader Quality & Automation (Python, Kubernetes, Cloud)

Meet the Team The Cisco Common Platform Services (CCPS) organization is transforming how Cisco delivers cloud-scale SaaS by providing a modern, consistent, and secure platform foundation. Within CCPS, the Cloud Software & Solutions (CSS) group designs and develops enterprise OpenStack and Kubernetes platform solutions engineered for quality, stability, scale, and performance. We believe that world-class platform quality is achieved through teamwork, innovation, and psychological safety. You will serve as the technical authority for platform test engineering—shaping global test strategy, mentoring talented engineers, and building reusable automation frameworks that power important hybrid cloud infrastructure. Your Impact Define end-to-end quality strategies, SLI/SLO benchmarks, and release readiness criteria across Kubernetes and OpenStack platform solutions. Develop, build, and scale modular, reusable test automation frameworks in Python, establishing coding standards and best practices across teams. Build automated suites for load, stress, scalability, endurance, failover, and chaos testing across distributed hybrid cloud platforms. metrics, logs, traces, profiles (Prometheus,

- **Id**: 3703669
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-live-senior-technical-leader-quality-automation-python-kubernetes-cloud>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T17:23:22Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-03T17:23:22Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5144
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 1761385
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: ciscolive.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ciscolive>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Chaos Engineering** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **JMeter** — Optional: no
- **k6** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Locust** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **OpenStack** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Robot Framework** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T20:09:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: seen:4, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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