On the engineering side, you'll champion automation and infrastructure-as-code practices to reduce manual operational work, help streamline deployment and operational workflows, and support your team in adopting modern DevOps and cloud operations best practices. You'll also help establish clear communication during incidents and work with stakeholders to keep everyone informed on system status and technical updates.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 8 years of relevant experience in cloud operations or DevOps engineering, with 3+ years in a team lead or supervisory role, OR Master's degree plus 6 years of experience with 2+ year in a leadership capacity
2+ years of experience leading/supervising technical teams (e.g., cloud operations, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure operations) including mentoring and performance management.
Experience operating production cloud/hybrid environments and leading incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions in a 24x7 setting.
Experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code for infrastructure deployments and operational workflows (e.g., Terraform or comparable tooling).
Experience working with security/compliance to support FedRAMP and/or NIST 800-53 and/or SOC 2-aligned environments.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience directly leading multidisciplinary cloud teams (e.g., cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform, or SRE specialists), including mentoring and performance management.
Experience operating AWS infrastructure including Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code solutions.
Hands-on automation tooling experience with Terraform, Jenkins, Git, Python, shell scripting, or comparable technologies.
Knowledge of FedRAMP continuous monitoring and related security/compliance practices, including vulnerability remediation, audit evidence, incident reporting, and maintaining an authorized system boundary.
Experience owning operational readiness and high-severity processes, including on-call rotation management (e.g., PagerDuty), and defining runbooks/monitoring/support models/onboarding standards.
Why Cisco?
At 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.
Fueled 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.
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 $166,300.00 to $238,300.00 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.
U.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.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-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
Exempt 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)
80 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
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
Employees 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:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area
$186,900.00 - $307,800.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state
$166,300.00 - $274,100.00
For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
