Cisco Silicon One is seeking DevOps Engineer

Meet the Team

Join the Cisco Silicon One team, where we are building a unified silicon architecture for web-scale and service provider networks. You will work in a multi-geography silicon organization that combines the energy and ownership of a startup with the scale and reach of Cisco. Our engineers collaborate across ASIC, hardware board, software infrastructure, IT, and lab teams to help deliver high-performance networking technology. This is a growth-driven environment for engineers who enjoy solving infrastructure problems that directly affect development velocity and operational excellence.

Your Impact

As a DevOps Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a critical role in accelerating development velocity by building and maintaining a robust, scalable, and highly stable infrastructure. Your expertise in CI/CD automation, IaC (Infrastructure as Code), and system optimization will directly impact the efficiency and speed of our development workflows. By ensuring seamless software delivery and reliable infrastructure, you will empower teams to innovate and deploy faster while maintaining operational excellence.

CI/CD & Infrastructure

• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and IaC tooling (Puppet, Ansible).
• Deploy and orchestrate containerized services (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Develop and improve On Prem Linux Image

Databases & Data Infrastructure

• Administer MySQL and time-series stores such as Prometheus.
• Design schemas, optimize queries, manage indexing, backups, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Plan capacity and lifecycle, leveraging the Percona ecosystem (e.g., XtraBackup, PMM) for performance and scale.

Monitoring & Observability

• Build and operate our observability stack — Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, ELK/OpenSearch.
• Design dashboards, alerts, and SLO/SLI frameworks that give teams real-time visibility into pipelines, labs, and infrastructure.
• Develop data collection pipelines and exporters to ingest metrics, logs, and traces from across the organization.
• Own anomaly detection and incident-response tooling, with a focus on minimizing MTTD and MTTR

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Partner with software, IT, and lab teams to define monitoring requirements and refine workflows.
• Enforce security best practices for database access, data retention, and monitoring infrastructure.
• Keep runbooks, design docs, and operational documentation accurate and up to date.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or a related role.
• Strong Linux administration fundamentals with experience in on-prem data center or hybrid cloud environments.
• Proficiency with Bash and Python for automation, tooling, and operational workflows.
• Experience with configuration management, infrastructure as code, or GitOps workflows using tools such as Puppet, Ansible, ArgoCD, Flux, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring or observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, or similar, and containerization technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or similar.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• DBA experience with MySQL, including schema design, query optimization, replication, backup, and recovery.
• Experience with log aggregation, time-series, or analytical data platforms such as ELK/OpenSearch, Loki, Splunk, InfluxDB, ClickHouse, or similar.
• Experience building dashboards, alerting rules, data pipelines, metrics exporters, and incident-response workflows.
• Knowledge of CI/CD implementation practices, Docker and Kubernetes operations, networking, storage management, and tools such as Artifactory, Redis, Percona XtraBackup, or PMM.

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Why Cisco?

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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.

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