# Software Engineer Technical Lead – Kubernetes Platform

Your Impact As a Senior Software Engineer, you will architect and deliver core components of a highly scalable platform for Cisco Hypershield. You will focus on extending platform availability across multiple hypervisors, directly removing barriers to customer adoption and increasing market reach. Working with senior technical leadership, you will translate architectural goals into robust, high-performance code, ensuring the platform meets rigorous scalability and security standards while coordinating delivery across engineering and infrastructure teams. Responsibilities Partner with application teams and infrastructure providers to understand workload requirements and hypervisor constraints. Use technical feedback, performance metrics, and system signals to validate architectural decisions and ensure desired platform outcomes. Contribute to the technical roadmap and own the implementation of a defined feature set or workstream for the Hypershield platform. Translate high-level priorities into technical requirements, success metrics (SLIs/SLOs), and execution plans. Collaborate with Engineering, Security, and Data teams to design and build dynamic scalability and a hardened securit

- **Id**: 4320454
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-software-engineer-technical-lead-kubernetes-platform>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Zurich, Switzerland, Brussels, Belgium, Barcelona, Spain, Bratislava, Slovakia, London, United Kingdom, Prague, Czech Republic, Athens, Greece, Stockholm, Sweden, Berlin, Germany, Bucharest, Romania, Oslo, Norway, Budapest, Hungary, Rome, Italy, Dublin, Ireland, Copenhagen, Denmark, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Paris, France, Poland, Portugal
- **Countries**: CH, BE, ES, SK, GB, CZ, GR, SE, DE, RO, NO, HU, IT, IE, DK, NL, FR, PL, PT
- **Hiring countries**: CH
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 11
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T19:53:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4044
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 284
- **Ghost share**: 0.063
- **Stale share**: 0.447
- **Repost share**: 0.106
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 11
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Switzerland** — Iso: CH; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T19:53:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T22:05:31Z

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