Sr. DevOps Engineer @ Cisco Secure

Sr. DevOps Engineer (Engineering Tools)

We are on a mission to make our products work together seamlessly, creating a fantastic user experience with less friction, toil, and burden for our users when provisioning, integrating and administering our products.

As a Sr. DevOps Engineer you'll be guiding & building a set of shared development tooling solutions for the entire Cisco Secure product portfolio, enabling our engineers to be optimally equipped for backend and front-end development. You will be collaborating with engineers, analyzing Developer Workflows and optimizing through new tooling, artificial intelligence and new processes that help improve Developer Productivity. You will help ensure that our developers get fast feedback on their changes, that their local build and test operations match what happens in our continuous integration system and assure that their code passes all tests and quality gates.

• Help define and implement best in class Developer Experience tooling - help ensure a smooth and efficient Development Lifecycle, optimize Developer Workflow, improve Developer Confidence, integrate AI into Developer Tooling and automate infrastructure and support of our development backlog, knowledge, source code and build systems.

• Research industry best practices while drawing from your prior experience to help design and architect a world-class developer workflow tooling ecosystem.

• Work with all software engineering teams across the Cisco Secure portfolio to understand their needs and help develop solutions that enable cross-team collaboration while increasing efficient development and the security posture across the entire software development ecosystem.

• Partner with product managers, engineers and security teams to collect feedback and develop specifications for new cloud-based products/services, applications and solutions, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Design cloud architecture, combining technologies to create optimal solutions for Cisco Secure, and complete plans and specifications to develop solutions.

• Drive the roll-out of public and private cloud management platforms, evaluate its performance and implement enhancements.

• Learn on the job, every single day and become the best DevOps engineer and quality professional you possibly can be!
  
• The ideal candidate for this role has a high degree of developer empathy, adaptability, curiosity, ownership and flexibility, works to build relationships with developers, enjoys feedback and enjoys solving difficult problems for improved developer experience.

Skills you have:

• Coaching and leading engineers with demonstrated impact in an organization.

• Collecting and synthesizing needs from various stakeholders, resulting in well-organized systems and solutions.

• Action oriented problem solver with a passion for improving and optimizing development workflows.

• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services. Comfortable working independently, receiving guidance and direction from leader then determines best approach to accomplish work. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

• Implements and supports cloud-based Backlog Management & Source Code Management tools like Jira, GitHub, Copilot, BitBucket, Perforce or Azure DevOps

• Experience driving continuous integration & delivery tools like Gitlab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI and buildbot among others

• Enhances Developer Experience and Productivity; proven backend, frontend and productivity tooling experience in support of improved Developer Workflow

• Contributes to the design, build, and maintenance of application infrastructure cloud services and supporting APIs like AWS (preferred), Google Cloud Engine, Azure, Openstack

• Develops relationships with peer stakeholders within and across teams and builds productive working relationships.

• Container experience with Docker (preferred) and orchestration with Kubernetes

• Continuous Configuration Automation tools like Ansible and Terraform

• Scripting and strongly typed languages like python (+1), bash, ruby, go, java, c#, swift

The impact you’ll have includes:

• Enable Cisco Secure product teams to accelerate delivery of value and focus more on innovation

• Focus on Engineering organizational transformation

• Researching & defining standards and strategy around engineering tooling for Cisco Secure

• Building relationships across all of Cisco Secure engineering

• Setting up common engineering tooling for Cisco Secure

• Helping Cisco Secure Engineering teams migrate to Common Services Engineering tooling standards

• Tooling focus will be on SCM, Backlog, Collaboration, Knowledge, Build and CI/CD

Our Team:

Ask a Cisconian (that’s what we employees call ourselves) about the best part of working at Cisco, and 9 times out of 10 we’ll say, “the people!”

Our versatile distributed, remote team provides a great deal of autonomy but expects clear accountability. We thrive in exploring new and innovative ideas but are rooted in making those decisions based on quantitative data.

Why Cisco? .:|:.:|:.

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Cisco is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness. We can grow and learn better together with a diverse team of employees. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents not only part of our culture, but our reputation and our achievement as well. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that all potential candidates can bring in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, gender identity and expression, nationality, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.

And if this role is exciting to you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet 100% of the description or qualifications. Finally, and most importantly, we are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer.

Your Impact

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#WeAreCisco

#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.