Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Engineering Enablement

Cisco

Lead Site Reliability Engineer working remotely to enhance the developer experience for Meraki's Cloud Engineering teams and shape cloud operations. Collaborate cross-functionally with teams in the US and UK.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeRemote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $163,600 - $234,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsLinuxPythonRubyUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

architect, build, and evolve the developer experience for Meraki's Cloud Engineering teams.
work within a team distributed across the US and UK and collaborate with other teams across SRE and Cloud Engineering.
shape the day to day operations of Meraki's cloud, and enable engineers to easily, safely, and confidently experiment on and build great products!
Lead the design and evolution of critical infrastructure for building, testing, and deploying cloud applications.
Take the lead on complex problem resolution and debugging of internal and vendor-supplied tools.
Influence and drive operational excellence within the organization.
Learn and understand the priorities and practices of other engineering teams to design systems that work for them.
Partner with engineering leadership to define roadmaps, reporting on productivity gains and platform health to the SVP level.
Lead complex troubleshooting, perform blameless postmortems, and champion sustainable on-call practices across the organization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree and 6+ years of relevant experience or equivalent related work experience
Have a software development background with 5+ years experience coding with languages like Ruby or Python.
Rapid technical adoption experience, evaluating and adopting new technologies with quick turnaround to address critical production gaps or security vulnerabilities.
Experience mentoring and providing technical oversight for a team
Experience with systems at scale, managing and operating distributed systems at a scale of 1,000+ nodes or high-concurrency environments with an owner/operator mindset.
Automation experience in configuration-as-code and infrastructure automation.
Have experience with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
flexible vacation time off program
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
additional paid time away may be requested
optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software DevelopmentCloud EngineeringProblem ResolutionDebuggingAutomationTechnical MentoringSystems at ScaleUnix/Linux Operating SystemsRapid Technical AdoptionInfrastructure Automation

Soft Skills

CollaborationLeadershipCommunicationInfluencingTroubleshooting

Certifications

Bachelor's DegreeMaster's Degree