Technical Leader – AIOps, Agentic Platform

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Technical leader building Cisco’s AI-powered AIOps and agentic operations platform. Automating reliability, incident remediation, and distributed operations for Cisco IoT Control Center.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and deliver production-grade AI agents, multi-agent workflows, and platform capabilities for SRE and infrastructure operations
  • Contribute to architectural reviews, design specifications, and technical trade-off discussions
  • Develop AI/ML-powered workflows for real-time anomaly detection, automated root-cause analysis, and proactive incident mitigation
  • Integrate telemetry frameworks, distributed monitoring systems, APIs, and cloud/on-prem environments for real-time AI context gathering
  • Implement automated testing, evaluation harnesses, human-in-the-loop approval gates, and deployment pipelines
  • Collaborate with Principal Engineers, software engineers, data scientists, and operations teams to integrate AI capabilities into core platform workflows
  • Mentor team members on AI engineering standard methodologies
  • Measure and report operational metric gains, MTTR reduction, and automation efficiency

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field with 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience, or Master's degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years
  • 8+ years of experience building, testing, and deploying backend software, operational tooling, or platform services within large-scale distributed environments
  • Proven track record of authoring at least 3+ major design proposals/RFCs and leading system design reviews
  • 5+ years of deep proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or Rust
  • Expertise in concurrency, data structures, and API development
  • 2+ years of practical experience developing with LLMs
  • Documented success in prompt engineering, tool/function calling, or transitioning AI agents from prototype to production
  • Experience with modern agent orchestration, semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and standard tool integration interfaces such as MCP and function schemas
  • Experience with distributed telemetry and data pipelines such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Kafka/Pulsar, Elasticsearch, and vector databases
  • Practical exposure to SRE practices, CI/CD automation, Kubernetes/container environments, and runbook orchestration
  • Experience building evaluation benchmarks, structured output validation, or security guardrails for production AI systems

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
  • Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
  • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
  • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
  • Paid year-end holiday shutdown
  • 4 paid days off for personal wellness
  • 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
  • Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
  • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time 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