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Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) (Hybrid)

Cisco · San Francisco, CA · 1 mo ago
Engineering$168k–$245k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must preserve all substantive info, no boilerplate, no application instructions, no cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Remove duplicated lines. We need to parse the posting. Key info: - Application window close date: 09/29/2026 (maybe metadata, not needed as heading; can be short p) - Hybrid position requiring approx 2 days per week on-site at Cisco offices in either San Francisco, San Jose, or New York City. - The Splunk Agent Resilience team ... description. - As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will build, operate, and continuously improve the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of Splunk Agent Observability's deployment platform and production infrastructure. You will own the operational backbone supporting both cloud and air-gapped customer deployments, develop automation to improve operational efficiency, and partner closely with engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems. - Your Impact (list bullet points): - Operate and improve Kubernetes-based production infrastructure and deployment systems - Own customer deployments across cloud and air-gapped environments, including installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management - Build and improve deployment observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting - Improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency through automation and performance optimization - Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements - Tune infrastructure components—including databases and services—to improve performance and resilience - Design and develop internal tooling using Python and/or Go - Debug complex production issues spanning Kubernetes, networking, storage, and application layers - Manage infrastructure using Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools - Collaborate with software engineers and customers to design secure, scalable, and reliable deployment architectures - Minimum Qualifications: - 7+ years’ experience with a Bachelor's degree or 4+ yrs with a Masters or 1 year with a PhD, or equivalent related experience; Experience to include at least 4 years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform / Cloud / Infrastructure Engineering, or related fields - 3+ years’ operating Kubernetes in production; experience with Helm - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD platforms and deployment automation - Experience working with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms - Preferred Qualifications: - Experience improving production reliability, scalability, and availability - Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting platforms - Strong scripting or programming skills in Python and/or Go - Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform - Experience with MLOps preferred - Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (VPCs, DNS, routing, load balancing) - Experience operating databases and tuning them for performance and reliability - Experience deploying and supporting cloud and air-gapped/on-prem environments - Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems - "starts with you." (maybe tagline) - Why Cisco? (description about Cisco) - could be part of About the role? Might be considered boilerplate? It's about company, not role. Might be considered fluff but maybe we can include as About the role? The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "Why Cisco?" section is not exactly boilerplate but could be considered generic marketing. However it's substantive about company. Might keep as part of About the role? But we need to decide sections. - Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary range posted for this position is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00 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. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. 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. 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 employees1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by CiscoNon-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 employeesExempt 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 nextAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family membersOptional 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 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. The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below: New York City Metro Area $167,700.00 - $282,000.00 Non-Metro New York State & Washington State $149,100.00 - $250,900.00 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. Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements. We need to extract Pay and Benefits sections. Pay: Starting salary range $167,700 to $245,200 (U.S./Canada). Also specific ranges for NYC Metro etc. Should we include those? The posting includes salary ranges for specific locations. So we can include Pay section with those details. Benefits: medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, short/long-term disability, basic life insurance, restricted stock units, paid time away details (holidays, birthday, wellness, vacation, sick time, volunteer days). Also annual bonuses for non-sales roles. That's substantive. Schedule: Hybrid position requiring approx 2 days per week on-site at Cisco offices in either San Francisco, San Jose, or New York City. That's schedule info. So we can have Schedule section. Now sections: About the role (maybe a brief paragraph summarizing role). Responsibilities (the "Your Impact" list). Requirements (maybe Minimum Qualifications). Qualifications (maybe Preferred Qualifications). Skills (maybe combine some skills? Could be separate but we can put skills under Requirements/Qualifications. However instruction: Use headings for section headings (About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to include only those with real content. We have content for About the role: we can write a paragraph summarizing the role from the description: "As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on the Splunk Agent Resilience team, you will build, operate, and improve the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of Splunk Agent Observability's deployment platform and production infrastructure, owning the operational backbone for cloud and air-gapped customer deployments, developing automation, and partnering with engineering teams." Responsibilities: the bullet list under "Your Impact". Requirements: Minimum Qualifications. Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications. Skills: Could extract specific skills like Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, AWS/GCP, Python/Go, Terraform, monitoring/logging, networking, databases, debugging, MLOps, etc. But we already have those in qualifications. Might be redundant. However we could still create a Skills section summarizing technical skills: Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, AWS/GCP, Python/Go, Terraform, monitoring/logging/observability, networking (VPC, DNS, routing, load balancing), databases, debugging/troubleshooting, MLOps, Infrastructure as Code. That's derived from qualifications. It's not invented; it's extracting. So we can include. Benefits: as described. Pay: salary ranges. Schedule: hybrid 2 days on-site. We must not repeat job title as heading. Already not. We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers. We must remove boilerplate like "Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:" maybe we keep the content but not the heading? The content is about pay and benefits; we can incorporate into Pay and Benefits sections. The phrase "Message to applicants..." is just intro; we can drop it. We must not include duplicated lines. We must not include application instructions (none present besides maybe "Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks." That's part of benefits; we can keep but maybe it's a link instruction; but it's still about benefits. Might be okay. We must not include cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Not present. Now produce HTML fragment. Structure:

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Make sure to not add extra sections if content is thin. All have content. Now craft content. About the role paragraph: combine description. "The Splunk Agent Resilience team is defining the future of AI resilience, providing scalable, cost‑effective evaluation and guardrails for AI agents. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you will build, operate, and continuously improve the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of Splunk Agent Observability's deployment platform and production infrastructure, owning the operational backbone for both cloud and air‑gapped customer deployments, developing automation to improve operational efficiency, and partnering closely with engineering teams

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