SRE Database Administrator (DBA) (Hybrid)

About the Role

This role requires a hybrid work schedule with two days per week on-site at Cisco's RTP, North Carolina, or Austin, Texas office. We are an agile team inside Cisco IT, building the next generation of NoSQL and Vector Databases on cloud platforms. This is a small team of highly motivated individuals demonstrating Agile scrum methodology. Our team is responsible for building and operating Hybrid Cloud Database services in a DevSecOps model. We move at a fast pace and are passionate about cloud and automation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure production services are scalable, resilient, high-performing, and secure.
• Support uptime through an On-Call rotation, monitoring, and alerting to meet SLOs and SLAs.
• Conduct Disaster Recovery drills and manage incidents—investigating root causes, applying remediation, and driving continuous improvement.
• Define reliability and security requirements for systems and components to meet company, customer, and regulatory objectives.
• Enhance operational efficiency by automating repetitive tasks and mitigating failure points.
• Develop tools and techniques for early detection of issues in products, packaging, processes, and product reliability.
• Serve as an experienced professional resource, applying best practices and business knowledge to improve products or services while guiding less experienced colleagues.
• Understand project and/or department needs and establish relationships with cross-functional partners to gather input and complete work steps.
• Design and deploy solutions to optimize reliability, availability, latency, and performance.
• Build automated platforms and apply design, deployment, and coding expertise to enhance reliability, scalability, and velocity.
• Design and test high availability and disaster recovery measures across regions and customers.
• Forecast and build reports to determine resource capacity.
• Design and implement tools to monitor and provide transparency into infrastructure performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with Developers and Ops to identify issues, serve as on-call SRE, and lead post-mortems and root cause analyses.
• Build and ensure security controls are in place in architectural design and collaborate with security teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 7+ years of technical expertise with cloud databases and experience with Vector databases (such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or Milvus) and/or with at least two of the following: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Experience with AI frameworks (OpenAI API, Langchain, etc.).
• Experience designing, administering, and maintaining Vector DB or Cloud DB architecture, including provisioning, upgrades, operations, backups, security, and performance.
• Experience with CI/CD frameworks and tools like Git/Github, Jenkins.
• Experience automating DB tasks using Python, Database Lifecycle Management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with public cloud like AWS, GCP, or Azure, or container technologies like Kubernetes and Openshift.
• Backend experience with Python or other programming skills.
• Demonstrated experience in building scalable databases on hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $139,300.00 to $203,600.00, with specific ranges for certain locations: New York City Metro Area ($167,700.00 - $282,000.00), Non-Metro New York State & Washington State ($149,100.00 - $250,900.00). Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, skillset, experience, and qualifications.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Paid time away, including holidays, birthday, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, and sick time.
• Opportunities for annual bonuses and restricted stock units.
• Volunteer time off.

The application window is expected to close on: 09/27/2026.