The application window is expected to close on: February 28, 2025. 
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.  

Please Note: The successful applicant will be performing work on US Government classified environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

Preference will be given to candidates located near Cisco hub offices in Austin TX, Raleigh NC and Fulton MD.  

Who We Are 

Cisco Systems is offering an extraordinary opportunity to be part of a small, innovative team with a low process, high throughput culture. The team is working on Cisco Defense Orchestrator, Secure Firewall Migration Tool, cloud-delivered Cisco Secure Dynamic Attributes Connector and cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center which manages policy and configuration of Security Business Group's firewalls. We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to contribute to all parts of our infrastructure stack in both Government and Commercial clouds.

Who you’ll work with

In this role, you will be part of a passionate multi-functional team that builds and improves our suite of offerings under Cisco Security Cloud.  Our agile team is responsible for the design and deployment of end-to-end solutions/software for Firewall Policy use cases, Dynamic Objects using CSDAC and Firewall Configuration Migration use cases, implement CI/CD features and fix bugs as well as improving the DevOps processes in response to feedback. 

What you’ll do

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for the production process, including continuous delivery of features, infrastructure automation, configuration management, high availability, and related tooling. You will interact with cross functional team members across Cisco (Architects, Product Owners, Product Managers) to review designs and arrive at suitable design and contribute to development and testing.  You’ll ensure software is deployed and operated to the highest quality through reliable monitoring using observability tools. 

Additional responsibilities include: 

·       Participate as a technical contributor on a fast-paced project team of engineers involved in the development of SaaS security products. 

·       Contribute to continously evolve cloud infrastructure, making it more resilient, scalable, and secure. 

·       Automate all manual procedures. 

·       Partner with the engineering organization to converge on common infrastructure setup, tooling, and deployment processes. 

·       Research and recommend technologies to help further product goals. 

·       Respond to and resolve infrastructure related critical issues. 

·       Manage and participate in on-call rotation, rotated through engineering team 

·       Collaborate with the greater Cisco technical support team 

Minimum Qualifications 

·       BS/CS or related STEM degree with 7+ years of professional technical experience to include 5 years of DevOps related tasks in a SaaS environment that is hosted in AWS 

·       5+ years of work within Linux based systems including use of Bash or related scripting languages (Example: General purpose language such as Ruby/Python). 

·       3+ years of experience in the design, deployment, and operation of Kubernetes (AWS EKS) clusters and workloads. 

·       4+ years of work with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible and CloudFormation 

·       3+ years of setting up, configuring, maintaining, and evolving a CI/CD environment using tools such as Jenkins/Argo CD/TeamCity/Bamboo/etc. 

Preferred Qualifications 

·       Create and manage a safe deployment procedure of new product changes across multiple environments (preferably backup/restore, secure credentials at rest like Vault); 

·       Ability to build SaaS monitoring solutions that detect and automatically remediate system faults (e.g. Datadog, Splunk) 

·       Triage, Debug and troubleshoot in a distributed environment. 

·       Understanding on computer system and network security. 

·       Agile software development. 

·       ollaboration skills, to reach out and triage critical issues in production that could be Priority 1, Priority 2 

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