Senior Site Reliability Engineer (FedRAMP) - ThousandEyes

About the role

This role is part of the Cisco ThousandEyes FedRAMP team, responsible for maintaining services in a FedRAMP compliant environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate FedRAMP compliant infrastructure and systems.
• Establish and maintain processes for continuous monitoring, logging, and auditing of systems to ensure compliance with FedRAMP controls.
• Collaborate and partner with security teams to identify and remediate vulnerabilities, conduct security assessments, and implement necessary security controls.
• Design and implement dynamic infrastructure solutions to run our platform’s infrastructure as we grow and continue scaling.
• Drive and build automation enabling our infrastructure and platforms to scale effortlessly, with a special focus on FedRAMP systems.
• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud-native services in AWS that are elastic and resilient to failure.
• Participate in and contribute to improving our 24x7 incident response and on-call rotation.
• Capacity planning for the infrastructure and platform and help teams prepare for growth.

Requirements

The ideal candidate must be a U.S. citizen and able to work on U.S. soil due to the nature of the work. This role follows a hybrid work model with in-office attendance expected once a week.

Qualifications

• Experience building and/or operating FedRAMP environments and understanding the FedRAMP framework, its controls, and compliance requirements.
• Ability to write high-quality code in Python, Go, or equivalent languages.
• Experience with Unix/Linux systems, the kernel, system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
• Knowledge of cloud providers, ideally AWS.
• Infrastructure as Code skills, ideally with Terraform, Puppet, and Kubernetes.

Skills

Talented engineers with a software or operations background, experienced in designing and operating large-scale highly available distributed systems in the cloud.

Benefits

Includes 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. Additional paid time off includes 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, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness.

Pay

$165,000.00 to $241,400.00

Schedule

Hybrid work model with in-office attendance expected once a week.