Cloud Engineering Technical Leader
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Cisco cloud engineering leader designing and operating secure, scalable infrastructure and platforms. Driving automation, architecture, reliability, and technical strategy across teams.
Responsibilities:
- Lead technical design and implementation of sophisticated cloud engineering initiatives across multiple teams
- Design and develop scalable cloud architecture and infrastructure
- Provide domain expertise on application infrastructure, cloud architecture, and platform engineering
- Design and operate public and private cloud infrastructure and management platforms
- Drive infrastructure automation and strategies for automating development, deployment, and operational requirements
- Lead deployment strategy and capacity planning across development
- Analyze cloud infrastructure utilization to improve performance and optimize cost
- Translate requirements into cloud architecture and infrastructure solutions with Product Management, Engineering, Security, and business teams
- Advise teams and stakeholders on cloud configuration, architecture, and migration strategies
- Apply security standards to cloud infrastructure, production access, and change management
- Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks
- Improve availability, performance, scalability, and stability of systems, services, and products at scale
- Evaluate cloud platforms, technologies, and engineering practices and recommend enhancements
- Communicate technical tradeoffs and align architecture, priorities, and outcomes with cross-functional partners
- Mentor engineers and share cloud engineering, automation, security, and operational guidelines
- Stay current with cloud technologies, industry trends, and emerging engineering practices to guide technical strategy
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, Master’s degree with 6+ years of related experience, or PhD with 3+ years of related experience
- 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing cloud-based software, systems, or platform solutions
- Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure for availability, performance, scalability, reliability, and security
- Experience leading technical design and implementation of sophisticated cloud engineering initiatives across multiple teams
- Experience with infrastructure automation, deployment strategies, capacity planning, or cloud infrastructure optimization
- Preferred: experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar cloud platforms
- Preferred: experience with cloud-native technologies, infrastructure as code, containerization, orchestration, and automated deployment practices
- Preferred: experience with infrastructure cost analysis, capacity planning, performance optimization, and highly available systems at scale
- Preferred: familiarity with cloud security best practices, production access controls, change management, and risk mitigation
- Preferred: experience providing technical leadership and mentorship and influencing cloud architecture and engineering decisions
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Grants of Cisco restricted stock units, subject to eligibility and continued employment
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- Paid birthday day off
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid personal wellness days
- 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
- Flexible vacation time off with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire and each January 1, plus up to 80 unused hours carried forward
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies
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