# Software Engineering Architect

About the Role: Senior DevOps Engineer, Cryptographic Services Cisco’s Security & Trust Organization (STO) is the backbone of our global customer ecosystems. The Cryptographic Services team builds and operates the zero-trust infrastructure that secures digital identities and secrets at enterprise scale. We aren't just leading infrastructure; we are defining how Cisco protects its most critical data assets. Our team powers two high-impact enterprise platforms: Enterprise Secrets Management: A centralized service built on Vault Enterprise, safeguarding credentials and encryption keys across multi-cloud and high-compliance boundaries (including FedRAMP and DoD IL5). Private PKI & CA Platform: A high-assurance, automated certificate lifecycle service on AWS EKS that secures internal microservices, cloud applications, and global supply chains. What You’ll Do (Your Impact) As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will blend platform engineering, cloud architecture, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to build resilient infrastructure. Architect and Scale: Drive the reliability and scalability of Vault clusters and containerized CA workloads across diverse environments (FedRAMP, IL5, and co

- **Id**: 4130545
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-software-engineering-architect>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Research Triangle Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T02:21:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7794
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **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**: 84
- **Open postings**: 285
- **Ghost share**: 0.049
- **Stale share**: 0.474
- **Repost share**: 0.091
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 167700
- **Max**: 282000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 282000

## Technologies

- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FedRAMP** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **HashiCorp Vault** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Kyverno** — Optional: no
- **Packer** — Optional: no
- **PKI** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Terragrunt** — Optional: no
- **Vault** — Optional: no
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T02:21:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,384 · green card filings: 608; Filings 12m: 1384

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T03:11:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 282000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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