Cloud Engineer

About the role

The team is made up of builders and problem-solvers who enjoy tackling complex distributed systems challenges while supporting highly scalable, resilient, and observable services in production. You will join a high-performing, collaborative group of engineers, architects, and product experts who thrive in an Agile environment where cross-functional teamwork is the daily standard.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support cloud-native SaaS applications and services.
• Build scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems using microservices architecture.
• Develop and operate services running in public cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud or Cisco Private Cloud.
• Participate in the design and implementation of service automation, monitoring, observability, and telemetry pipelines.
• Analyze service health, performance metrics, logs, traces, and alerts to improve reliability and customer experience.
• Own services through the full lifecycle, from design and implementation to production support and continuous improvement.
• Work on deployment, configuration, and operational readiness for SaaS services in production environments.
• Review architecture, designs, implementation plans, test strategies, and operational procedures.
• Troubleshoot complex production and customer issues across application, infrastructure, database, and networking layers.
• Collaborate with engineering, product management, security, SRE, DevOps, and customer-facing teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 - 2 years of professional software engineering experience in product engineering, SaaS, Cloud, DevOps, or Platform Engineering environment.
• Hands-on experience developing, testing, deploying, or supporting cloud-based applications or services in at least one public cloud environment such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Programming skills in one or more languages such as Java, Python, or Go.
• Experience building rich web UIs in full stack technologies, services, such as Java, Ruby on Rails/NodeJS, React, JavaScript.
• Experience with cloud-native application development, including containers, service deployment, scalability, resiliency, and production readiness.
• Experience debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills across application, service, and cloud infrastructure layers.
• Experience using Generative AI tools to improve software development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, or operational workflows.

Qualifications

• Ability to learn quickly, take ownership of assigned features or components, and collaborate effectively in an Agile engineering team.
• Familiarity with software engineering practices such as code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, source control, CI/CD, secure coding, and maintainable design.
• Exposure to observability tools and practices, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and service health analysis.
• Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, identity, access control, RBAC, secrets management, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Exposure to incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems, or reliability improvement practices.

Skills

• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and microservices.
• Experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of cloud security principles and best practices.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools.
• Ability to work in an Agile environment.

Benefits

At Cisco, we offer competitive compensation packages, including a starting salary range of $123,600.00 to $174,000.00, subject to location and individual performance. Additional benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Volunteer time off.
• Flexible vacation time off.
• Annual bonuses for quota-based sales roles.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $123,600.00 to $174,000.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Schedule

Full-time position.