Senior Site Reliability Engineer (FedRAMP) - ThousandEyes

About the role

This role is part of the Cisco ThousandEyes FedRAMP team, which builds and operates the US GovCloud platform. The team is responsible for architecting, delivering, and maintaining the FedRAMP offering.

Responsibilities

• Join forces with the software engineers to ensure that the ThousandEyes platform’s Federal region infrastructure and services are designed and optimized for availability, latency, and performance.
• Design, implementation, and management of 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.
• Know the latest industry best practices, evolving security threats, and updates to FedRAMP guidelines, and apply this knowledge to improve the security posture of our systems.
• 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

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.

Qualifications

Good Communication and documentation skills.

Solid sense of ownership, drive, and enthusiastic attention to detail.

Ability to build and implement scalable and well-tested solutions.

Experience identifying and analyzing cyber security risks.

Familiarity with security standard processes, vulnerability management, and incident response processes.

Skills

Talent for software or operations background, experienced in designing and operating large-scale highly available distributed systems in the cloud.

Willingness to work closely with our application development teams to ensure the reliability, performance and security of our infrastructure.

Benefits

The starting salary range posted for this position is $165,000.00 to $241,400.00 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.

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:

• 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 a 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.

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 sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.