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You will help design, build, and operate enterprise observability platforms for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting across large-scale cloud infrastructure.\nThis role will contribute to customer-facing production services, with an initial focus on Kubernetes-based platform workloads such as Nextunnel and broader SRE and reliability initiatives over time. You will lead efforts that improve visibility, reduce time to detect and resolve incidents, increase platform reliability, and strengthen operational excellence across Cisco’s cloud environment.\nThe role includes participation in a shared SRE pager and on-call rotation, production support, and incident response.\nYour Impact\nDesign, deploy, operate, and continuously improve enterprise observability platforms.\nBuild and maintain Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud infrastructure, including indexers, Search Head Clusters, heavy forwarders, deployment servers, and related integrations.\nDeploy and operate large-scale Elasticsearch clusters supporting log analytics, search, and operational troubleshooting.\nDesign, deploy, and support distributed tracing platforms using Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry.\nBuild and maintain end-to-end telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces.\nDefine instrumentation standards, data quality practices, retention policies, and observability patterns.\nScale and optimize Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and related monitoring systems.\nDevelop dashboards, alerts, analytics, and trace visualizations using Splunk SPL, Grafana, Kibana, and Tempo.\nEstablish monitoring and alerting standards that improve service-level visibility and reduce mean time to detect and resolve incidents.\nAutomate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, upgrades, and operational processes using Terraform and configuration management tools.\nParticipate in capacity planning, performance tuning, upgrades, patching, disaster recovery, and production readiness reviews.\nTroubleshoot complex distributed-systems issues and lead or support incident response and root-cause analysis.\nPartner with platform, application, security, database, and network engineering teams to improve reliability and operational consistency.\nContribute to shared SRE standards, documentation, runbooks, and engineering best practices.\nParticipate in the shared SRE pager and on-call rotation for production services.\nMinimum Qualifications\n7+ years of related experience, or Master + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a related field.\nExperience administering Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud in a production environment, with solid understanding of Splunk SPL for dashboards and alerts.\nExperience designing, deploying, and operating Elasticsearch or ELK-based platforms, along with Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing (Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry), and Kafka.\nExperience in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and production operations.\nProgramming or scripting experience in Python, Go, Ruby, Bash, or similar languages, with demonstrated ability to troubleshoot production incidents and participate in on-call support.\nPreferred Qualifications\nSplunk certification.\nExperience with Kubernetes and containerized production workloads.\nExperience operating cloud infrastructure in AWS, Azure, or GCP.\nExperience with Ansible, Consul, CI/CD pipelines, or service mesh technologies.\nExperience with reliability engineering practices, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, capacity planning, and incident management.\nDemonstrated experience implementing and operating modern observability strategies across logs, metrics, and traces\nExperience supporting FedRAMP, government, or other regulated environments.\nExperience building secure, highly available, and compliant observability platforms.\nExperience leading cross-functional technical initiatives from proposal through implementation.\nStrong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.\nTechnology Stack\nSplunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Elasticsearch, ELK, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, Go, Bash, CI/CD, distributed tracing, and cloud-native infrastructure.\nUS Requirement\nThe successful applicant may perform work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments and therefore must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or U.S. national). Work must be performed from within the United States.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt 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.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.\nU.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\n\nNon-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees\n\nExempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)\n\n80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next\n\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\n\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\n\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\nEmployees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:\n.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;\n\n1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;\n\n1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and\n\nOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.\n\nFor non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. 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