Senior Site Reliability Engineer I, Efficiency and Performance

Who We Are

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network – even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues – before they impact end- user experiences.

ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.

About The Role

The Site Reliability Engineering team focused on Efficiency and Performance is responsible for driving AWS cost intelligence, managing the ThousandEyes infrastructure, and ensuring optimal resource utilization and performance. In this role, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will play a crucial part in optimizing the tools, services, and infrastructure that support the ThousandEyes platform.

What You'll Do

The Site Reliability Engineering team dedicated to Efficiency and Performance is responsible for optimizing AWS cost intelligence, managing the ThousandEyes infrastructure, and ensuring resource intelligence and performance. By strategically managing cloud resources and infrastructure, this team enhances the overall performance and reliability of our services. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer in this role will lead efforts to optimize cloud expenditures, streamline infrastructure management, and ensure that all resources are utilized efficiently, driving continuous improvement in service reliability and performance. Think self service and participate in and contribute to improve our "Follow the sun" model incident response and on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• Ability to design and implement scalable and well tested solutions, with focus on streamlining operations.
• Strong hands on experience in cloud preferably AWS,
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills, ideally with Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Previous experience in AWS cost management
• Understanding of Prometheus and it’s ecosystem, including Alertmanager.
• Ability to write high quality code in Python, Go, or equivalent languages
• Good understanding of Unix/Linux systems, the kernel, system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.

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