Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era. They are seeking a Principal Engineer - Platform Engineering to architect and drive the future of Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms, leading platform strategy and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Architect and drive the evolution of Kubernetes platform strategy across cloud and on-premises environments supporting mission-critical workloads at scale
- Lead the design and implementation of platform capabilities that improve reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity for hundreds of engineering teams
- Partner with engineering, security, and product leaders to define multi-year platform roadmaps and drive execution of company-critical initiatives
- Provide technical leadership during major incidents, architecture reviews, platform transformations, and strategic infrastructure investments
- Mentor senior engineers and help raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, operational excellence, and architectural guidance
Skills
- 15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments
- 7+ years of hands-on experience operating Kubernetes platforms in production, including multi-cluster environments
- Experience architecting and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid cloud environments
- Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting networking architectures for large-scale Kubernetes platforms, including CNI implementations, ingress and egress traffic management, service-to-service communication, multi-cluster connectivity, and network observability
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps technologies, including Terraform and ArgoCD or equivalent platforms
- Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to effectively influence engineers, architects, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders
- Proven track record leading cross-organizational platform initiatives and influencing technical strategy across multiple engineering teams
- Experience implementing SRE practices, including SLOs, incident management, production readiness reviews, and operational excellence programs
- Strong software engineering experience with Go, Python, or similar programming languages used for automation and platform development
- Experience with migrating monolithic applications to a microservices architecture
- Knowledge of networking (i.e. switching, routing, wifi, IoT)
Benefits
- 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.
- 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.
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