
Job Overview
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Engineering
Date Posted
July 10, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead the design and evolution of critical infrastructure for building, testing, and deploying cloud applications.
- • Take the lead on complex problem resolution and debugging of internal and vendor-supplied tools.
- • Influence and drive operational excellence within the organization.
- • Learn and understand the priorities and practices of other engineering teams to design systems that work for them.
- • Partner with engineering leadership to define roadmaps, reporting on productivity gains and platform health to the SVP level.
- • Lead complex troubleshooting, perform blameless postmortems, and champion sustainable on-call practices across the organization.
🎯 Requirements
- • Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree and 6+ years of relevant experience or equivalent related work experience.
- • Have a software development background with 5+ years experience coding with languages like Ruby or Python.
- • Rapid technical adoption experience, evaluating and adopting new technologies with quick turnaround to address critical production gaps or security vulnerabilities.
- • Experience mentoring and providing technical oversight for a team.
- • Experience with systems at scale, managing and operating distributed systems at a scale of 1,000+ nodes or high-concurrency environments with an owner/operator mindset.
- • Automation experience in configuration-as-code and infrastructure automation.
- • Have experience with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Starting salary range of $163,600.00 to $234,600.00.
- • U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- • Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
- • U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies.
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About Cisco Systems, Inc.
Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, and services. Products include routers, switches, security appliances, collaboration tools, and cloud-managed solutions. The company also offers consulting, support, and training for enterprise, service-provider, and commercial markets worldwide.
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