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













