Cloud Engineer

Overview

The application window is expected to close on: 08/25/2026. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. This is a hybrid role with three days per week at RTP, North Carolina office. The successful applicant may be performing work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee).

This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

Webex is a $1B Business Unit that develops primarily cloud-based collaboration software solutions and is an integral part of the $4.4B collaboration portfolio at Cisco, which is investing heavily to transform the future of collaboration experiences for our end users.

Our vision is to be the recognized industry leader in the Cloud Collaboration market, as well as to be the industry beacon that attracts top talent. Our strategy is to sustain innovation in our current $1B product line, and to develop innovative new products for the future that expand and positively redefine our market. We will build the next generation cloud platform with APIs and an ecosystem that delivers tangible business outcomes enabling our customers to get more jobs done!

As a Cloud Engineer within the Webex Platform organization, you will:

• Collaborate with experienced multi-functional engineers to design and build a next-gen provider-agnostic, auto scaled platform that hosts multiple hundreds of micro services.
• Create solutions using open source and commercial technologies to ensure service availability and quality against speed-to-market needs for rapid delivery of new features and releases.
• Develop and lead tools, frameworks, infrastructure, templates, etc. for configuring, building and deploying platform and cloud applications in an automated manner.
• You will work in an agile environment with a global engineering team.

• A BS or MS degree in the Computer Science or related fields; with 5+ years of experience (3+ with a MS degree) as a Cloud Engineer, Software Engineer, Dev Ops Engineer, or related.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), virtualization (VMware, Open Stack) and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Programming skills (Go, Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, Java, etc.).
• Technical knowledge and working experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).

• Experience with monitoring, observability, and incident response in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Understanding of IPv4/IPv6 networking and experience with cloud network architecture and automation.
• Ability to drive operational improvements through automation and embrace modern Dev Ops practices.
• Experience with Source Code Control Management and CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins, Argo, Harness, etc.).
• Drive for continuous learning, results-orientation, and teamwork.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills to work with the global engineering teams.
• Ability and the passion to learn new technologies quickly.
• Ability to work cross-functional and cross-department.

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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.

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