Senior Cloud Engineer

The application window is expected to close on: 10/12/2026. This position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

Meet the Team. Cisco’s Collaboration Business Unit empowers people and organizations worldwide to connect, communicate, and innovate seamlessly. You will collaborate with a global team of software engineers and SREs responsible for delivering extraordinary collaboration experiences  team supports backend services deployed worldwide and works closely with development, product, and operations partners to ensure reliability and performance. Webex is powering the shift to the hybrid workforce, helping people stay connected in a rapidly evolving digital world.

We cultivate a startup-like culture that values innovation, ownership, and collaboration, while offering the scale and impact of a global technology leader.

As a distributed big data enthusiast, you’ll architect and deploy resilient, large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and Open Search in hybrid AWS and private cloud environments. You’ll automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, optimize high-throughput systems for scale and performance, and strengthen reliability through automated backups, security patching, and incident management. As a trusted technical partner, you’ll also guide application teams on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies.

• Bachelors and 8+ years hands on experience (deploy, monitor, scale, and upgrades) with a distributed database technology such as CassandraDB, Open search, Kafka, PostgreSQL, or Redis.
• 5+ Years managing AWS infrastructure at scale.
• 5+ Years experience with infrastructure automation and Dev Ops practices such as CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes).
• Python 5+ years experience supporting live production systems for customer facing software as a service.
• 3+ years of experience leading technical projects, including responsibility for task estimation, milestone tracking, and stakeholder communication processes.

• Exposure to modern data platforms including data pipelines, streaming systems, AL/ML and GenAI workloads.
• Experience writing data driven applications in Java or Python and familiarity with data access patterns in software.
• Experience in regulated US Federal environments.

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.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $ to $ and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education,…