Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - FEDRAMP | NIGHTS | Remote

Summary

Cisco, through its Splunk business, provides security and observability solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The Site Reliability Engineer will support Splunk’s FedRAMP Cloud Ops team by maintaining, testing, documenting, and improving large-scale cloud offerings, executing infrastructure changes, leading customer incidents, and developing automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Test features in our Splunk Cloud offering
• Develop and update documentation around configuration and infrastructure changes
• Execute configuration and infrastructure changes on customer cloud environments
• Lead customer related incidents in troubleshooting the SplunkCloud platform
• Develop/update automation tools

Skills

• 3+ years of Linux experience
• 2+ years' experience scripting in Python, Golang or Bash
• 3+ years' experience working on distributed systems
• 1+ year experience participating in incident management
• Must be a U.S. Person (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee)
• This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified **can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.**
• Must be able to work nights, weekends and on-call during your shift
• Must be willing and able to acquire the SplunkCloud Architect Certification and either the Splunk administration or Splunk Power User certificate within the first 2 years of employment
• Experience working with Puppet
• Experience working with Jenkins
• Experience working with AWS (preferred) or GCP
• Experience scripting with Powershell
• Experience with Microsoft Azure is a plus
• AWS Solutions Architect certificate and/or experience

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 3+ years of Linux experience
• 2+ years' experience scripting in Python, Golang or Bash
• 3+ years' experience working on distributed systems
• 1+ year experience participating in incident management
• must be a U.S. Person (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee)
• This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified **can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.**
• must be able to work nights, weekends and on-call during your shift

Nice to Haves

• Must be willing and able to acquire the SplunkCloud Architect Certification and either the Splunk administration or Splunk Power User certificate within the first 2 years of employment
• Experience working with Puppet
• Experience working with Jenkins
• Experience working with AWS (preferred) or GCP
• Experience scripting with Powershell
• Experience with Microsoft Azure is a plus
• AWS Solutions Architect certificate and/or experience

Benefits

• This position is remote.
• U.S. employees are offered medical, dental and vision insurance, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules.
• A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• 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.
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 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 determined by Cisco.
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees.
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, subject to availability and some business limitations.
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next.
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
• For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.