Site Reliability Engineer

Cisco

Site Reliability Engineer ensuring scalable and secure production services for cloud databases at Cisco. Participating in on-call rotation and facilitating cross-functional collaboration.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeRTP • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $137,000 - $200,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudJenkinsMongoDBMySQLPostgresPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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
Automate repetitive tasks and mitigate failure points
Develop tools and techniques for early detection of issues
Serve as an experienced professional resource
Establish relationships with cross-functional partners to gather input and complete work steps
Design and deploy small to mid-size or moderately complex solutions
Build automated platforms and apply design, deployment, and coding expertise
Design and implement tools to monitor performance and reliability of infrastructure

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
5+ 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 with designing, administering, and maintaining Vector DB or Cloud DB architecture, including provisioning, upgrades, operations, backups, security, and performance
Experience with CI/CD framework and tools like Git/Github, Jenkins
Experience with automating DB tasks using Python, Database Lifecycle Management

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental and vision insurance
401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
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
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
flexible vacation time off program, no defined limit on vacation time
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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Hard Skills & Tools

Cloud DatabasesVector DatabasesPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBAI FrameworksCI/CD ToolsDatabase Lifecycle ManagementPerformance MonitoringDisaster Recovery

Soft Skills

Cross-Functional CollaborationProblem SolvingContinuous Improvement

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science