Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (FedRAMP) - ThousandEyes

About the role

The Cisco ThousandEyes FedRAMP team builds and operates our US GovCloud platform. This team is responsible for architecting, delivering, and maintaining our FedRAMP offering.

Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire, and develop a talented SRE team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Drive strategic vision for the management and continued expansion of FedRAMP-compliant infrastructure and systems, ensuring excellence in operations and security processes.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including development, product management, and security to define and implement FedRAMP-compliant processes and strategies across the broader Cisco ThousandEyes platform.
• Provide oversight and direction for how ThousandEyes approaches the continuous monitoring, logging, and auditing of systems to ensure compliance with FedRAMP controls.
• Stay current with industry best practices, evolving security threats, and updates to FedRAMP guidelines, and apply this knowledge to enhance the security posture of all platforms and systems.

Requirements

• You have led a distributed team of 5+ engineers, can demonstrate strong technical vision for your team, and ensure consistent delivery on objectives.
• You have a total of 5+ years of experience building and supporting mission-critical services with a focus on automation, availability, and performance, and you have worked on large-scale distributed systems including multi-tiered architecture.
• You have experience identifying and analyzing cyber security risks, familiarity with security best practices, vulnerability management, and incident response processes.
• You have experience formulating a team's technical strategy and roadmap; you've collaborated and partnered effectively with several other teams to execute on shared goals.
• You understand how to balance tactical needs with strategic growth and quality-based initiatives that can span multiple quarters.
• You are a US citizen.

Qualifications

• Experience building and/or operating FedRAMP environments.
• Strong understanding of the FedRAMP framework, its controls, and compliance requirements.

Skills

• Technical vision and leadership skills.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and automation.
• Knowledge of security best practices and incident response processes.
• Ability to collaborate and partner with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with FedRAMP compliance and governance.

Benefits

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. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.

Pay

The starting salary range posted for this position is $210,600.00 to $305,100.00 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. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.

Schedule

Employees On Sales Plans Earn Performance-based Incentive Pay On Top Of Their Base Salary, Which Is Split Between Quota And Non-quota Components, Subject To The Applicable Cisco Plan. 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%; andOnce 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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.